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Functional Automation

Using automation tools for functional or structural testing can cost less than performing manual test execution. You should consider which tests to automate since there is a cost to creating and maintaining functional test scripts. Acceptance regression tests benefit the most from functional test automation technology.

For functional testing, automation provides the greatest benefit when testing relatively stable functionality. Typically, automating a test case takes approximately seven times as long as manually executing it once. Therefore, if a test case is not expected to be run more than seven times, the cost of automating it may not be justified.


 Testing Siebel eBusiness Applications 
 Published: 21 July 2003