For IT organizations, the operative maxim has been “If you don't test it, you can't trust it.” That trust carries a hefty price tag: In 2002, AMR Research reports, software defects cost business $60 billion to fix, and 50 percent of software costs were related to finding and fixing those defects. That's just the out-of-pocket cost. IT systems that don't solve real business problems or don't perform as promised impose a similar economic toll on business costs and results. More than half of all software projects fail to meet objectives or suffer significant schedule and budget slippage because defects are discovered too late.

In an age of accelerating product lifecycles and restrictive cost pressures, the impact of the traditional approach to testing has had serious consequences that have put IT organizations between a rock and a hard place. In today's business climate they're asked to do more with less and they're expected to deliver higher quality systems in less time with fewer resources. And when corporations tighten their budgetary belt, software testing is often the first systems-development item to be cut. This puts IT in a bind.

One way out of this bind is framework-driven test automation. Framework driven test automation can greatly reduce testing cycle times, especially regressions. It also reduces costs and effort, and supports iterative development and more frequent releases. For low-complexity projects, clients report a 91 percent reduction in testing time with test automation. For medium-complexity projects, test automation reduces the testing process time by 85 percent; for high complexity work testing time is reduced by 77 percent.

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