I have not seen any return on investment from the use of SmartBear TestComplete in my company.

We are saving a lot in terms of client satisfaction. We are not yet in a phase where we have savings in terms of a reduced QA team, but our clients are happy that they get bug free software. Moreover, our testing team spends more time testing new features, and we are confident enough at build roll out time that all previously developed modules are stable.

Our ROI is about $10,000 a year.

We have not done a ROI calculation. However, automated testing with TestComplete has cut regression test time by months.

I am not responsible with the licensing quotation/renewal, but the benefit that TestComplete brings to us is, apparently, acknowledged.

We did not maximize our ROI until we put somebody full-time on our TestComplete endeavours. The tool does have a learning curve, and it wasn't until we had an in-house expert on it that we began to see the benefits of automated testing over traditional QA roles.

Given the cost was minimal, the best representation of ROI from my perspective is time saved using automated tests vs. manually execution.

My current suite of tests numbers in the hundreds, and each test involves several UI elements. Depending on how your organization defines a test you may call this one test or many. An example to quantify this, is as follows - Automated Build Viability (smoke test) execution:

• Number of tests = 75
• Automated Time to execute = 15 minutes
• Manual Time to execute = 360 minutes (approx.)
• Automation time saved = 345 minutes (5+ hours)
• 2300% improvement

It’s hard to sell testing tools, especially in a company that is owned by someone who thinks of software as a mule to pull his cart. It was a very tough sell and it is hard to quantify in dollars the money saved. However, I can say, with confidence, that there have been over one hundred bugs caught through regression since the software was purchased, which is a great track record for a team this size.

We have not performed an ROI analysis.

We achieved ROI in eight months from the start of implementation. Get a good automation architect to implement a good ROI directed framework. It is very easy to lose direction during a mmigration.

My ROI has been the fact that it takes less time to run all of the tests that were done previously. Prior to TestComplete, it would take over three weeks to run all of the tests that needed to be run for a release. After TestComplete, we have been able to reduce that time to less than one week.

ROI was never calculated explicitly, but normally the ROI point was expected to be reached after three to five months of the project.

unknown.

6/10.

I would say that we have now automated about 100 tests, so it saves us three days every month..

I'm not sure.

The ROI makes it worth buying this product.

ROI is simple. We've spent three months on development and automated one month of regular regression tests done manually for each release. Now we did it for each build.