Automating the Automation | No Code ‘Environment Synthetics’

The Cost of Manually Testing your Environment Health

• I need to test each test system (maybe production) every morning.
• I have 100 systems (each with 5 instances), that is 500 test system instances.
• The average manpower of testing each instance is 15m.
• Daily cost = 15m/60 (hour) x 500 x $100 (hourly charge rate) = $12,500 per day.
• Annual cost of manually testing health of our Test Environments

ROI of Building a Test Automation Synthetics Framework

• 500 Scripts
• Time to build each script originally is 16 hours (inc analysis, design, build & test).
• Estimated maintenance & execution of script 16 hours pa.
• Annual Cost of Automated Testing

• ROI (compared to Manual) = 1.6M (Year1) and 2.4M (Year2+)

Pitfalls of Test Automation

• There is the cost of the tools (often expensive).
• The likelihood of resources (SMEs) being more expensive.
• The ongoing need to coordinate, build, maintain, and execute the artefacts (refer above).
• The reality that mileage so often varies due to the quality and efficiency of the resources involved.

Enter Enov8

• No Code Lean Synthetics. A perfect and immediate complement to organizations existing test environment health techniques.

1. Determine the health of your test systems using ‘silver thread’ transactions.
2. Analyze the underlying component services.

ROI of Enov8 “No Code Lean Synthetics” Framework

• Time to build each script originally is 30m (inc analysis, design, build & test).
• Estimated maintenance and execution of script 30m pa.
• Annual cost of Lean Synthetics: 500 x 1-hour x $100 (hourly charge rate) = $50K Year-1 ($25K Y2 onward).

• ROI (compared to Manual health checks) = 2.95M (Year1) and 2.975M (Year2+) A significant ROI would also be found if we were comparing it to a test automation framework.

• ROI (compared to test automation health checks) = 1.55M (Year1) and 775K (Year2+) Enov8 Lean Synthetics is now available to Enov8 Environment Manager customers.

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