Test Automation Roi: Formula, Examples & Benchmarks (2026)
Your team automated hundreds of test cases. Leadership wants to know if it was worth it. Most engineering teams can’t give them a number. That’s what gets automation budgets cut. Proving test automation ROI means translating testing activity into financial terms: hours saved, defects prevented before they cost 5-10x more to fix in production, and release cycles shortened enough to matter on a balance sheet. The formula exists. The benchmarks exist.