Automation ROI calculation<\/p>\n
It’s not about calculating man hours saved<\/p>\n
While automation has a lot of benefits,<\/p>\n
Equating time spent by a tester to a machine running the test is not accurate.<\/p>\n
Most people (including myself in the past) calculate automation ROI by man hours saved<\/p>\n
Automation is provides only data points, they do not necessarily mean a failure.<\/p>\n
A person has to interpret the data and conclude if we have a failure.<\/p>\n
But then how does automation benefit us?<\/p>\n
Some high level points in the linked article:<\/p>\n