Test Automation: Benefits are Three Pronged – Reuse, Labor and Costs

Automation and tools that aid automation is predicted to eliminate at least 25% of labor hours associated with IT services.

Increased automation in testing process is a sure-fire way to leverage technologies while reducing time, costs and driving flexibility.  Test Automation helps in a number of areas including reuse, labor and cost savings.

Key benefits of Test Automation:

1.     Reuse:

•  Continuous build and integration
•  Regression testing
•  Multi-application use

2.     Labor:

• Better use of senior skills
• Frees up time for exploratory testing
• Reliability
• A higher percent of coverage and defects analysis.

3.     Cost Savings:

• Traceability, linkage and ease in maintenance of the entire test suites
• Labor allocation
• Sourcing
• Reduced cost by proper selection of tools (such as open-source software where in necessary), process, frameworks.