Easy way to calculate Return on Investment in Automation – User friendly Tech help

Automation of software testing process always sounds good to Quality Engineer (QE) managers. Intuitively, you see that creating an automated test one time and then running it hundreds or thousands of times will enable you to expand test coverage, find defects earlier, and focus manual test effort where it is really needed.

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Return on Investment

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 Thought of sharing the basic formula for calculating ROI(Return on Investment):-

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 Automation Cost = Price Of Hardware + Price of Software(Tools) + Development Cost + Maintenance Cost + Execution Cost 

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Manual Testing Cost = Development Cost + Maintenance Cost + Execution Cost

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 ROI = (Manual Testing Cost – Automation Cost)/Automation Cost 

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 Now as Regression increases, thus resulting in repeat ion in execution of Test cases, it results in surge in ROI by Automation Tool.

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We can say that general Principle for Automation is “More Repetitive tasks are ideal candidate for Automation” producing more ROI

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The aim is to have an ROI >>> than 1 

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