Implementing Automated Software Testing: How to Save Time and Lower Costs While Raising Quality

Chapter 3The Business Case

Getting off to the right start

As discussed throughout this book and highlighted in Chapter 2, there are many benefits to implementing AST. If applied correctly, those benefits can include reducing the time and cost of software testing, improving software quality, and many other factors that will positively impact your software test program. Understanding these potential benefits and being able to explain them are important when introducing the idea of AST to your management and test programs. Additionally, it is important to have buy-in from upper management and the various stakeholders affected, in order to secure the funding required for AST, for example. It is important to be able to articulate for your particular ...