The business benefits of automation
(or how to save $250,000 in year one...)

5 key benefits that effective automated testing can bring to your business:

• Reduce the time spent on testing
• Reduce the money spent on testing
• Increase the overall productivity of your IT operation
• Increase software applications quality
• Increase user and client confidence in your applications

Once our solutions have been implemented we find that the proportion of time companies save in their testing processes is routinely excess of 40%, frequently in excess of 60%, and sometimes in excess of 90%, and you can see where you can achieve impressive time and cost savings. With the savings you could:

• Extend the scope of your testing
• Re-assign some of your resources
• Implement more applications this year than you thought possible!

So how do we deliver this?

When implemented correctly test automation can deliver huge benefits:

• Faster data preparation
• Reusable test processes
• Useful library of test results
• Test runs reduced from days to hours
• Scripts that maintain themselves
• The ability to build several scripts into a single 'superscript'
• The addition of a variable data set

This all enables your team to do more testing, and produce higher quality software applications. So you will have substantially less risk of systems downtime.

The (huge) intangible benefits

The biggest benefits are actually less tangible than concrete measurements of costs, resources and downtime.

Testing is regarded as boring, repetitive and a chore. But through effective automation, you can:

• Easy to learn
• Easy to maintain
• Easy to maintain
• Can offer a fast ROI and productivity benefits
• Can grow and develop with your system

Otherwise, it will quickly become just another piece of (expensive?) shelf-ware.

Let's move on to look at some real-life scenarios involving Original Software products, and look at what sort of savings you might expect to make through test automation. Or why not put us to the test and Ask our Experts!