With a small team of one onshore person and three offshore people, I was able to show the value of $90,000 savings for a project as a POC and the customer is currently using this tool for several other projects in their organization after seeing the ROI for one project.

I got to the break even point in eight months. Based on the number of times it was executed, I believe seven times full regression suite execution and six defect retesting scripts (only for failed scripts) to get ROI. If you use it for bigger project with bigger team, I am sure you may be even able to see better ROI.

To give more specific details, In one year we did the following tasks

• Learnt the Ranorex automation tool
• Used college grads effectively
• Understood the application
• Identified reusable components
• Designed an automation framework
• Developed 1386 automation scripts with a team of one onshore person and three offshore people with various complexities of test cases
• Executed those scripts for each iteration
• Maintained and modified those scripts for any enhancements or application changes

ROI isn’t just limited to pricing/licensing. Whilst it is an initial selling point, resource availability, skill requirements etc is what I see as the fundamental cost savers toward your ROI.

Maintenance is a cost killer in automation, so if you haven’t implemented a modular, data driven framework (which requires a skilled team) then I still believe the commercial tools will provide you with a better ROI. As I’ve said above however, if you do have a choice, hire a skilled team as then you will be able to get away with using free tools such as Selenium. The resource will have experience with those products, hence will also be able to implement a maintenance efficient framework in a cost effective manner.

ROI is hard to estimate and I’m not the one who estimated it.

The ROI would be the man hours saved by implementing the Automation suite.

With the incorporation of Ranorex and automation testing in general we are saving a lot of time for our internal people. ROI is calculated at about one year approximately.

By our calculations we are now getting a return of 50% time saved in team efforts, making the team 50% more productive.

for clients we integrate Ranorex together with Polarion ( a Siemens supported test studio) to automate tests in a HMI/PLC domain, using WinCC-OA -> HMI functional tests to automate, this also includes receipts (for BIO clients & test automation)

Vesrsion control between Ranorex / Polarion is an important issue.

Clients were pretty happy with the ROI, as the pricing was lower compared to other tools and test maintainability was easy.

Thanks to Ranorex we were already able to find some bugs we wouldn’t find by our manual tests. It helps us to discover bugs in parts of the software we’re currently not focused on.

We have automated 15+ internal applications for our client, which reduced much manual effort on regression testing.

Previously, we had to check and test every night the same test sets, and after every deployment a basic check of several test cases was needed. To do that, we needed a full time person to do that. Now, we can focus on new functionalities after each deployment.

Since it is possible to reference the API from some other tools and solutions, instead of being forced to use Ranorex studio, we gained a lot on flexibility and re-using our existing tools and technologies in combination with Ranorex features which are relevant for our test automation process.

The returns will always vary depending on the software. It is a great tool for some shops to start out new developers on, helping them learn more about the integral parts of a system. It can be worth it as a learning aid or knowledge base alone.

The ROI is being able to automate the web, mobile, and desktop applications.

We found that the tool could also be used in reproducing defects and automating user cases, which were very hard to do manually.

I believe ROI is pretty high, although I am not involved with the management of the product.

Overall, it's a good product.