Manual testing is and always will be an integral part of the software development and delivery process. However, manual testing-only is a massive drain on your financial resources, your team's productivity and ultimately, the achievement of your business goals.
At Qsome, we believe in data. Pure, unadulterated numbers. So we have built this easy-to-use calculator, which allows you to work out just how much your manual testing-only program is costing you. We call this cost the "burn rate!"
Your Manual Software Testing Burn Rate Per Release
But Money Isn't Everything
Consistency, speed and effectiveness are three well-known problems of manual-only software testing projects. The big elephant in the room, however, is the amount of time your non-expert testers (ie. people from the business who you bring in to help with testing) are spending away from what they really should be doing.
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This is the maximum number of times that your teams can put a new release into production every year. To put that into context, the likes of Oracle and SAP are moving to quarterly update cycles. If you work in a product company, most of your competitors release multiple times every week. Will your teams be able to cope in this fast-paced environment?
We can also deduce the following about the productivity impact non-testers who help with testing (ie. people from the business):
After every release
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Cost of this loss
After 5 releases
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Cost of this loss
After releases
Person-days lost
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What Would You Achieve If You Could Speed Up Testing?
Whether the numbers above are alarming or satisfactory, standing still is a sureshot plan for losing ground. Based on the numbers you entered above, you could achieve the following savings in the time spent on testing by people from the business, alone:
By cutting number of days that people from the business spend on testing by 25%
After every release
Person-days saved
Value of this saving
After 5 releases
Person-days saved
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After releases
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By cutting number of days that people from the business spend on testing by 41%
After every release
Person-days saved
Value of this saving
After 5 releases
Person-days saved
Value of this saving
After releases
Person-days saved
Value of this saving
Do You Need A Solution To This Problem?
If yes, then you should consider a test automation solution that fits your development environment. You will definitely need
automated software testing tools and if you don't have test automation skills within your team, then you will also need help with
test automation services.
Get our Definite Guide to Software Testing to learn the 10 best-practice ideas that you can start implementing immediately to improve your software testing projects.
Also,
get our Ultimate Guide to Test Automation for a 5-step process that you can use to implement test automation in your organisation. The Ultimate Guide includes a comparison of the best test automation technologies and the testing tools that support test automation.
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