All organisations are under pressure to reduce costs and improve quality, whilst keeping pace with new technologies and practices. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and Cloud are emerging to become the predominant business models and creating disruption in the testing tools market.

There are a lot of questions/doubts when it comes to Automation and Product Testing, based on 6 Myths that have been created around it. Project/Test managers and Test Leaders usually have second thoughts on automating their testing processes. What we will try to identify, are the reasons why those myths are created and how the automation has change, becoming more innovative and more efficient.

There are many approaches determining the cost benefit or return-on-investment of implementing an automated regression testing solution. It is very important to note that there are many compelling benefits for implementing test automation and some of these benefits are soft and difficult to measure.

Following to the recent Testing Evaluation Survey that Validata Group performed, it seems that 60% of the banks that participated have adopted a manual approach for testing their T24 environment.