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A balance among speed, quality, and cost
In today's fast-paced environment of software development, the top priority for QA teams is striking a balance between speed, quality, and cost to adapt with continuous delivery, rapid software release cycles, and rising customer demands.
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A balance between speed, quality, and cost
Top priorities for QA teams
The earlier teams adopt test automation, the higher the payoff
Powerful QA platforms available today can significantly reduce upfront investments, effectively allowing teams to realize the benefits of automation faster.
Our survey shows that 79% of respondents saw an increase in cost savings after applying test automation.
ROI of test automation in terms of cost savings
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Intelligent test management
20%
Test planning and scheduling
27%
Test optimization and prioritization
24%
Automated defect/ bug correction
25%
Automated defect/ bug detection
34%
Automated test data generation
Top AI-augmented capabilities used in automation tools
AI has great potential for test automation
Although AI is still in its infancy in software testing, AI-augmented testing solutions show great potential for software quality with a wide adoption of advanced test automation capabilities.
These capabilities range from autonomous test cases, scripts, and data generation, to bug detection and fixes, test suite optimization, test evaluation and reporting.