{"id":13526,"date":"2019-02-07T17:36:02","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging02.cigniti.com\/blog\/?p=13526"},"modified":"2019-02-07T17:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T12:06:45","slug":"how-functional-test-automation-improves-business-roi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/how-functional-test-automation-improves-business-roi\/","title":{"rendered":"How can Functional Test Automation Improve Business RoI?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cFunctional testing has become a business imperative for\u00a0any project irrespective of its size. The risks of releasing a new software application without rigorous\u00a0QA,\u00a0have greater implications now than ever before due to the rapid pace of change in demands and expectations of end users.\u201d
\n<\/em>CTO – Fortune 100 company<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the development of a quality application, it must go through the critical phase of testing \u2013 for the newly-designed code for any bugs or malfunctions, for a seamless functioning of the UI providing the best customer experience, for security, robustness, and a lot more. Any application needs to go through this rigorous testing process because it will be used in different systems, environments and scenarios.<\/p>\n

Most CXOs get interested in knowing more about how to implement functional test automation once they hear about how it can help increase the profitability of their application. A look into why you need to automate your functional tests for an agile and continuously constructive feedback during the coding process will showcase in detail the benefits for your business.<\/p>\n

It is always better, in terms of business RoI, to release slightly less ambitious but functionally robust products than an innovative, but unpredictable and unstable app.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Return of Investment Businesses Achieve by Implementing Functional Test Automation Practices<\/h2>\n
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  • Reputation<\/strong>: Functional test automation of the code at the end of a development cycle ensures that your application releases without any bugs or malfunctions. This preserves and improves the reputation of your business and application, thereby increasing your profitability quotient and RoI.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
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    • Controlled Testing Environment:<\/strong> Under controlled testing scenario, applications are put under stress to check their capacity and break-point as part of in-house testing. It allows your application to be tested beyond its capacity. Your application can be put through numerous possible scenarios to assess its scope, thus giving your application better stability under stress. This improves the stability and scalability of your application, thus improving its marketability, and therefore, better profitability.
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      • Early Bug Detection: <\/strong>Your application, in the development stage, needs continuous, end-to-end testing. Functional test automation allows your code to be tested repeatedly so that your team will be able to detect and decipher problems early in the development process. Using practices such as Agile, shift-left and DevOps, applications can be tested earlier on in the process. Early detections allow your application to be free of bugs, glitches and data bottlenecks. This saves time so that your team does not reach the end stage to understand the glitches and it can be caught in the earlier stages so that they may proceed in the right direction. In application development, this means saving time, effort and money – resulting in better RoI for the business.
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        • Patching Glitches: <\/strong>Every application before its release needs to be glitch and bottleneck free. Functional test automation acts as a helpful tool to figure out the possible glitches and helps identifying and thereby reducing those glitches.
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