Sampling the Benefits
To see how significant the benefits can be of testing across all levels of the test automation pyramid, consider the case of Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com provides Software as a Service for customer relationship management. Nine months after adopting Scrum, Salesforce.com had achieved the following reductions:
• Reduced the number of staff involved in its nine deployments of the application by 65% (to 15 people)
• Reduced the amount of time spent on final go-live tests—two to three hours of manual effort became ten minutes of automated testing
• Reduced the amount of time on post-release sanity tests—three to four hours of manual testing became 45 minutes of running over 200 automated tests
• Reduced the number of people ...
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