Regression testing is a very labour intensive activity. Automating the regressive acceptance testing of mission critical features is good investment. The return of investment (ROI) can be calculated easily. Just summarize the hours spent on manual testing annually and multiply it with some hour rate. Here we must consider that internal work also has a price tag. Too often organizations think that only the time of external consultants cost, but so does the time of your internal employees, especially if they are wasting time on repetitive non value adding work. That time is even more expensive that the time of an external consultant, who inevitably cannot know your business that well. Internal employees should spend their time developing your business, not doing repetitive regression testing, which can be delegated to an AI-driven test automation robot 🤖.

Below is a graph showing the expected annual savings of an imaginary organization, let’s say ACME Ltd., after deploying test automation developed by Convalidandum. As can be seen, after the initial investment in developing test automation in 2025, the annual investment in testing is 0 and the relative accumulated cost savings over 6 years is 420 %. Cost down ⬇️ and productivity up ⬆️.

But don’t take my word for it. I would encourage you to do a calculation similar to the one visualized above. If you know the number of releases, the hours spent on testing the releases and the cost of a testing hour, creating the calculation is a breeze. Then you also need to factor in the cost of developing the automation, which we can help you with.

If the above sparked an interest in you, don’t hesitate to reach out, we are here for You 💖

Yours truly,

Markus Karjalainen, CEO and Co-founder