Technology is evolving every second. In such a fast-paced world, sticking to old manual testing techniques is like using a flip phone in a smartphone era, you’ll get the job done, but not efficiently or effectively.
If your QA team is constantly racing to fix issues instead of preventing them, it’s a clear sign your current strategy isn’t working. Test automation drives continuous delivery, boosts agility, speeds up release cycles, and lowers costs—without compromising quality.
Your framework is slow and inefficient if your QA testing team is consistently missing delivery dates. Additionally, it indicates that your deadlines are unreasonable if it isn't.
In any case, missed deadlines result in lost chances. Consider automating a portion of your testing framework to expedite the process if late deliveries are frequent.
It is commonly recognised that automated testing is faster than manual testing. Humans are infamously slower than machines, after all.
Your product is growing—more features, more complexity, more edge cases. But if your testing resources aren’t scaling with it, you’re leaving risk on the table.
James Boatwright, CEO of Code Galaxy, once said:
Automation lets you build a robust suite of repeatable tests that scale with your product—without overloading your team.
A classic indicator of an excessive reliance on manual testing is regression problems. Nothing feels more frustrating than pushing a fix—only to break something that was working fine last week.
It’s difficult to identify what broke when you’re testing under pressure and on a deadline.
Automated regression suites act like a safety wall. They capture unintended side effects before they are deployed to production. Regressions can be identified early and frequently using automation.