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Test Automation ROI Calculator
Set your release cadence, the processes in regression scope and what a tester hour costs you. The calculator models what agentic, process-level automation on the Worksoft platform changes — effort, cycle time, escaped defects — over three years.
Your regression workload
12
Monthly SAP cadence = 12; add Salesforce / ServiceNow waves
40
Order-to-cash variants, procure-to-pay, hire-to-retire…
8 h
€55
80%
Process-level SAP automation typically reaches 75–90%
€40k
Hotfixes, rework, business disruption
The economics
Manual regression cost / yr
€211k
3,840 tester hours
After automation / yr
€68k
residual review + triage
Effort saved / yr
€144k
tester hours redeployed
Fewer escapes / yr
€240k
50% reduction assumed
Regression cycle per release
320 h→ 102 hof human effort
3-year net benefit
€701k
€1.15M benefit · €450k cost · payback in 7 months · ROI 156%
Costs: €90k one-time assessment + first-suite build, €120k/yr platform and agentic estate for a mid-size landscape (typical Qualesce engagement; scaled to processes and applications covered). Residual human effort assumed at 15% of the automated scope for review and triage. Escape reduction of 50% reflects continuous regression versus periodic manual cycles. Directional; the per-landscape model is shared on a scoping call.
How to read the result
- Effort saved is the lever everyone models — and it is real, but it is the smaller half in most SAP estates. Tester hours come back as capacity for exploratory and acceptance testing, not as headcount cuts.
- Cycle time is the lever that changes programmes: when a full regression takes hours of human effort instead of weeks, releases stop queueing behind testing, and S/4HANA cut-overs get rehearsed instead of hoped for.
- Escaped defects are the lever most enterprises under-count. Put an honest number on the last hotfix weekend and the calculator will usually show it outweighs the tester hours.
Frequently asked questions
Why model regression by process rather than by test case?
Because enterprise risk lives in business processes — an order that must flow from Salesforce into SAP and out to the invoice — not in isolated screens. Agentic automation on the Worksoft platform is process-level, so the calculator counts processes in scope and the human hours each one consumes per release.
Where do the 75–90% automatable and 15% residual figures come from?
Process-level SAP automation on the Worksoft platform typically automates 75–90% of a regression scope once the suites are generated; the residual reflects human review of results, triage of genuine failures and the small share of scenarios that stay manual. Both are typical values from the Qualesce practice; your assessment replaces them with your own numbers.
What is included in the cost side?
A one-time assessment and first-suite build, and an annual subscription to the platform and agentic estate sized to processes and applications covered. No seats, no hourly billing. Customer-side change management and infrastructure are not modelled.
How is the defect-escape saving estimated?
You enter what a release's escaped defects cost you (hotfixes, rework, business disruption); the model assumes continuous regression halves that. It is the most conservative lever in the calculator and the one most enterprises under-count.
Want the number for your landscape, not a model?
A two-week assessment inventories your applications and release cadence, quantifies today's test effort and escape rate, and picks the first process.