If it ain't broke don't fix it they usually say, but sometimes that simply does not work . Just like a few weeks ago, when I came home and saw the concrete beam above my front door , totally dirty from the moss that had collected on top of it, which colored the rain dripping down from it, staining the front to a color that was many shades darker than the concrete of my neighbors' homes. So I took the pressure washer, and made it shine again.
At work , similar stuff happens: I will see something that needs improving, and always leave the place cleaner than I found it, like a good little boyscout. But of course you need to make sure there is time in the project to do such things . If you end up in a situation where manual testcases are never automated, your test work will suffer and even come to a halt as the burden of keeping the testing updated with the changes in the software grows out of control !
