By improving your UAT processes, you stand to not only make significant cost savings in the testing process itself, but you can prevent additional costs further down the line. The most obvious here is the cost of the business being unable to operate – the gravest consequence of bugs making it through UAT. The better your testing process, the less chance there is of bugs making into your production environment and derailing the business. Given that there are several high-profile examples of companies losing millions or billions in lost revenue and share prices due to bugs like this, that cost saving is well worth considering!
Fixing bugs in a live environment is costly too, even if the bugs in question don’t bring the business down. Reducing the instances of those bugs will reduce the costs of debugging, and could make your entire development process more cost-effective.
Obviously, for the reasons stated above, it’s hard to put an exact number on the savings you could make improving your UAT. However, we can share that one of our customers saved more than $270,000 in a year by reducing testing time by 95% thanks to a robust UAT process. Another customer estimated that they had reduced the burden on their business users by 25 to 35%; you can obviously make those calculations based on your own business users.
Hopefully this gives you some fresh optimism as you look at the balance sheet for your IT operations. It’s only one part of the puzzle when it comes to cost-cutting, we know, but hopefully, it’s a bigger part than you may have expected – and one that brings a host of other benefits too.
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