Test Automation: Delivering Business Value

As organizations look to reduce costs across a wide range of operational disciplines, IT will become under the radar more and more. The impact of project slippage, poor quality delivery and inadequate solutions will not be tolerated. This may prove a pain-point for many organizations who have traditionally failed in these critical areas. Testing, like all project disciplines, has areas that can be quickly improved within an organization. One of the key areas where cost-savings and project efficiencies can be generated is through the use of test automation. The ideal is to reduce time and cost and improve quality. However, to maximise the benefits across all three needs some simple principles to be followed. This paper is aimed at lifting the lid on what makes test automation a viable option for an organization and recommends some sound advice in the implementation of a test automation strategy.

Used strategically, test automation will reduce the cost of testing to the business directly, by reducing the time to test, and indirectly by improving software quality and reliability across projects. It should be seen as an investment and not an overhead

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