Boardroom discussions more often than not lead to the question, \u201cWhat are we doing to drive growth?\u201d<\/p>\n
While CEOs face the challenge of upping top line revenue growth, the CIO\u2019s usually are the enabler of the technology that will lead to better revenues. With the entire world passing through digital disruption and all things undergoing automation and transformation, CIOs actually have become a one-man army of sorts, on whose shoulders lies the key to the success of an organization. While ensuring that there are no glitches in the product, CIOs also need to oversee continuous innovation so as to improve go-to-market times and reach more customers.<\/p>\n
With so many organizations using multiple technologies paving way for faster go-to-market, and also focusing on continuous deployment, it has become imperative for the CIOs to change the way they strategize. Not only do the need to rein in the risks and failures if any, but they also need to keep their organization in the race.<\/p>\n
As a Gartner report states, \u2018Application leaders who are creating strategies for digital business must address a wide range of testing use cases across the enterprise.\u2019<\/p>\n
A key process that comes into mind when organizations think of speed, accuracy, continuity, robustness, and faster market presence is Automation. Based on Agile and DevOps practices, practicing automation also helps CIOs overcome their existing backlogs, verify and validate processes and puts the organization on a fast growth track. Automation also helps track and monitor your software that helps optimize it further for success. This adds the flavor of quality assurance and quality engineering \u2013 and you are on the way to launch the best products and success.<\/p>\n
Additionally, in another report, Gartner goes on to say \u201cTesting is one of the key processes in software development. As the requirement to support multiple browsers and devices increases, it is driving the demand to automate the functional testing of applications.\u201d Test automation has become a business norm at most Fortune 1000 firms today. Implementing test automation<\/a> across the board will not just improve production speed \u2013 but also help CIOs save huge amounts of precious time, cost savings, and accelerate improved productivity.<\/p>\n Let us look at a few ways test automation benefits CIOs \u2013 and therefore, their organizations.<\/p>\n Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n With the high proliferation of automated testing techniques, it\u2019s time for CIOs to start thinking seriously about test automation and quality assurance (QA) professionals to gain a competitive advantage. Test Automation usually focuses on service automation and QA testing. A few types of tests that may be automated are Black Box, functional, integration, regression, and unit testing.<\/p>\n Cigniti has a dedicated team of over 50 Architects and 700 test automation experts develop test automation IP\/accelerators by leveraging industry trends, best practices, and reusable frameworks\/libraries. By leveraging Cigniti\u2019s enablers and the assets developed, organizations<\/a> have reduced efforts in developing test automation framework by over 80%, saved more than 50% in test automation script development efforts, and realized over 70% reduction in overall regression testing efforts. Cigniti utilizes proprietary test techniques to identify automatable manual tests. Cigniti\u2019s test automation methodology (and team) is well accustomed to Agile and DevOps environments ensuring consistent ROI during the entire agile lifecycle.<\/p>\n\n