Business value articulation of Automation

Showing key stakeholders that your test automation efforts are worth continued investment is often tricky, because value is a relative term that varies based on a given organization's needs. One important aspect in relaying value is telling a well-rounded story of how test automation has been beneficial to your organization. This story might include the following:

 

·         Script Development Metrics - Identifying metrics related to the percentage of manual tests that have been automated helps to reveal the productivity of your team

·         Cost Savings ROI - The amount of money that has been saved in the test implementation

·         Efficiency ROI - The amount of time that has been saved in the test implementation

·         Risk Reduction ROI - The amount of money that has potentially been saved by reducing risks, increasing test coverage, and allowing manual testers to focus on finding costly, hard to find defects

·         Defects Identified - The number of defects found during automated test development and/or implementation

·         Organizational Impact - Revealing how the introduction of automation has caused testing to be done earlier, or how it has caused development and/or testing practices to improve, or how some small utilities you've created are being used by other teams to increase their efficiencies

The Business value articulation of this problem is the most sought after deliverable.