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DALLAS, April 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Worksoft, the industrys leading provider of end-to-end enterprise automation for complex custom and packaged applications like SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday and more, today announced the expansion of its Connective Automation Platform to include unmatched AI-driven analytics capabilities, becoming the first vendor to offer a genuinely codeless, scalable automation solution that seamlessly connects process intelligence, business process testing and production automation to drive comprehensive process insight and continuous process improvement.

Process Intelligence provides a unified view of end-to-end business processes with actionable insights, delivering unprecedented enterprise process visibility and maximizing process efficiency by eliminating business and IT silos. Combining multiple data sourcesincluding process mining, business process captures, test automation results, production performance, and moreProcess Intelligence generates a real-time roadmap for automation and process optimization.

This new level of Process Intelligence is a catalyst for CFOs and CIOs looking to unlock the full potential of their automation investment, providing them with a closed-loop view of their processes in real-time, said Tony Sumpster, Worksoft CEO. Process understanding is critical to driving digital transformation, and these platform enhancements reinforce our commitment to enabling real business change, uniquely bridging process understanding and business process automation in pre and post-production.

Digital transformation and automation strategies heighten the need to identify and understand business processes. The addition of Process Intelligence to Worksofts Connective Automation platform creates an unparalleled opportunity for enterprises to visualize and understand as-is business processes and identify and create resilient automation to enable continuous testing, RPA and Agile+DevOps development initiatives at speed and scale.

Worksofts AI-powered process intelligence is transforming the way business and IT teams align to deliver the best end-user experience and business outcomes. It provides real-time automation insights enabling customers to better understand, de-risk, and optimize their processes, said Shoeb Javed, Worksoft Chief Product and Strategy Officer. With nearly three-quarters of organizations today having adopted DevOps in some form, the request for advanced automation and deeper business/IT alignment is accelerating. Our platform now offers customers the ability to continuously evaluate process insights to target what to automate and build automation at scale, faster.

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With Process Intelligence, its easy to view optimization and automation opportunities across all of my process data. IT Specialist for industry-leading consumer packaged goods manufacturer

Process Intelligence gives me a one-screen, easy-to-use view of what Ive automated and where I need to focus across my landscape. QA Manager for leading HVAC and building supplies manufacturer

About Worksoft

Worksoft provides Connective Automation for the worlds leading global enterprises, automating the full lifecycle of a business process from process intelligence to testing to RPA. Our codeless automation empowers business users and IT to accelerate automation and arms organizations with process data insights to prioritize automation efforts and extend the value into RPA for maximum efficiency and scalability. With Worksoft, enterprises can speed project timelines and ensure data-driven quality for their complex end-to-end business applications, including SAP, Oracle, Salesforce, Workday, SuccessFactors, ServiceNow, and more. Recognized by leading Global Systems Integrators as the markets choice for large-scale continuous enterprise automation, Worksoft is embedded into their ERP practices to enable their Agile, DevOps, and SAFe methodologies and accelerate digital transformation.

For more information, contact Worksoft at info@worksoft.com or visit http://www.worksoft.com. For media inquiries, contact Liz Blackman, eblackman@worksoft.com, or +1 (806) 438-0556.

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Amsterdam-based SEGRON has raised 4.5 million, now bringing their total capital raised to 10 million.

The round was led by OTB Ventures and Credo, and is expected to fuel international expansion and the entry to new industry verticals.

SEGRON is rapidly expanding with a strategy that addresses the needs of companies at the forefront of digital transformation, accelerated by Covid-19. New industries are adopting automated testing at pace, to quickly respond to fast-evolving consumer expectations and the increased technological complexity of the digital ecosystem, says co-founder and Managing Partner at OTB Ventures Marcin Hejka. SEGRON is a great example of first-class European software, enhancing the online experience of consumers and businesses around the world.

The global pandemic has driven significant demand for automation services. According to Global Market Insights, automated testing expected to grow at 15% CAGR between 2020 and 2026, presenting an estimated global market value of $35 billion.

Telecoms operators including Telefonica, The T-Mobile Group, and Swisscom are all racing at breakneck speed to meet customer expectations and rollout next-generation 5G and IoT services, all of which require strenuous amounts of automated testing, an area which has been SEGRONs primary focus.

Delivering on their promise and establishing a successful track record, SEGRON is now looking beyond their continental borders and has already inked an agreement with a Canadian telecoms operator. Additionally, this round of funding will also see the company looking eastward to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific region.

And while the telecom industry might be the current bread-and-butter, automated testing has a wide range of applications, particularly within the automotive industry. SEGRONs recent appointments of Jean-Philippe Leloup (formerly of Ferrari/Maserati) as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Rita DAgostino (formerly of Fiat Chrysler, Kia, and Maserati) as Chief Marketing Officer signal a strong move intention to transfer this experience into cars. Wireless connectivity plays a key factor in the auto of tomorrow, with everything from automated robotic assembly lines to self-driving cars all requiring vast amounts of bandwidth and low latency services; All of which need continuous and fully automated testing.

This is an important milestone for SEGRON as we enable some of the worlds greatest innovators to rise to the industrial-scale challenges and opportunities emerging in the past 12 months. Our automated solutions help companies to improve their end customers experience, increase productivity and improve speed-to-market for new products and services, comments SEGRON founder and CEO Thomas Groissenberger.

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The prominent players in the global Industrial Automation Market areVoith GmbH., FANUC Corporation, ABB Ltd., Toshiba Machine Corporation Ltd., Honeywell International Inc., Emerson Electric Company, Yokogawa Electric Corporation, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, General Electric Company, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, and Rockwell AutomationInc.,.

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NASAs SBIR program regularly doles out cash to promising small businesses and research programs, and the lists of awardees is always interesting to sift through. Here are a dozen companies and proposals from this batch that are especially compelling or suggest new directions for missions and industry in space.

Sadly these brief descriptions are often all that is available. These things are often so early stage that theres nothing to show but some equations and a drawing on the back of a napkin but NASA knows promising work when it sees it. (You can learn more about how to apply for SBIR grants here.)

Autonomous deorbiting system

Martian Sky Technologies wins the backronym award with Decluttering of Earth Orbit to Repurpose for Bespoke Innovative Technologies, or DEORBIT, an effort to create an autonomous clutter-removal system for low Earth orbit. It is intended to monitor a given volume and remove any intruding items, clearing the area for construction or occupation by another craft.

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Ultrasonic additive manufacturing

There are lots of proposals for various forms of 3D printing, welding and other things important to the emerging field of On-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing or OSAM. One I found interesting uses ultrasonics, which is weird to me because clearly, in space, theres no atmosphere for ultrasonic to work in (Im going to guess they thought of that). But this kind of counterintuitive approach could lead to a truly new approach.

Robots watch each others backs

Doing OSAM work will likely involve coordinating multiple robotic platforms, something thats hard enough on Earth. TRAClabs is looking into a way to enhance perceptual feedback and decrease the cognitive load on operators by autonomously moving robots not in use to positions where they can provide useful viewpoints of the others. Its a simple idea and fits with the way humans tend to work if youre not the person doing the actual task, you automatically move out of the way and to a good position to see whats happening.

3D printed Hall effect thrusters

Hall effect thrusters are a highly efficient form of electric propulsion that could be very useful in certain types of in-space maneuvering. But theyre not particularly powerful, and it seems that to build larger ones existing manufacturing techniques will not suffice. Elementum 3D aims to accomplish it by developing a new additive manufacturing technique and cobalt-iron feedstock that should let them make these things as big as they want.

Venusian batteries

Venus is a fascinating place, but its surface is extremely hostile to machines the way theyre built here on Earth. Even hardened Mars rovers like Perseverance would succumb in minutes, seconds even in the 800 F heat. Among the many ways they would fail is that the batteries they use would overheat and possibly explode. TalosTech and the University of Delaware are looking into an unusual type of battery that would operate at high temperatures by using atmospheric CO2 as a reactant.

Neuromorphic low-SWaP radio

When youre going to space, every gram and cubic centimeter counts, and once youre out there, every milliwatt does as well. Thats why theres always a push to switch legacy systems to low size, weight and power (low-SWaP) alternatives. Intellisense is taking on part of the radio stack, using neuromorphic (i.e., brainlike but not in a sci-fi way) computing to simplify and shrink the part that sorts and directs incoming signals. Every gram saved is one more spacecraft designers can put to work elsewhere, and they may get some performance gains as well.

Making space safer with lidar

Astrobotic is becoming a common name to see in NASAs next few years of interplanetary missions, and its research division is looking at ways to make both spacecraft and surface vehicles like rovers smarter and safer using lidar. One proposal is a lidar system narrowly focused on imaging single small objects in a sparse scene (e.g., scanning one satellite from another against the vastness of space) for the purposes of assessment and repair. The second involves a deep learning technique applied to both lidar and traditional imagery to identify obstacles on a planets surface. The team for that one is currently also working on the VIPER water-hunting rover aiming for a 2023 lunar landing.

Monitoring space farms

Bloomfield does automated monitoring of agriculture, but growing plants in orbit or on the surface or Mars is a little different than here on Earth. But its hoping to expand to Controlled Environment Agriculture, which is to say the little experimental farms weve used to see how plants grow under weird conditions like microgravity. They plan to use multispectral imaging and deep learning analysis thereof to monitor the state of plants constantly so astronauts dont have to write leaf 25 got bigger every day in a notebook.

Regolith bricks

The Artemis program is all about going to the moon to stay, but we havent quite figured out that last part. Researchers are looking into how to refuel and launch rockets from the lunar surface without bringing everything involved with them, and Exploration Architecture aims to take on a small piece of that, building a lunar launchpad literally brick by brick. It proposes an integrated system that takes lunar dust or regolith, melts it down, then bakes it into bricks to be placed wherever needed. Its either that or bring Earth bricks, and I can tell you thats not a good option.

Several other companies and research agencies proposed regolith-related construction and handling as well. It was one of a handful of themes, some of which are a little too in the weeds to go into.

Another theme was technologies for exploring ice worlds like Europa. Sort of like the opposite of Venus, an ice planet will be lethal to ordinary rovers in many ways and the conditions necessitate different approaches for power, sensing and traversal.

NASA isnt immune to the new trend of swarms, be they satellite or aircraft. Managing these swarms takes a lot of doing, and if theyre to act as a single distributed machine (which is the general idea) they need a robust computing architecture behind them. Numerous companies are looking into ways to accomplish this.

You can see the rest of NASAs latest SBIR grants, and the technology transfer program selections too, at the dedicated site here. And if youre curious how to get some of that federal cash yourself, read on below.

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Accounting software specialist BlackLine has declared that business resilience and cash management is a major priority for organisations now more than ever, and this has inspired the company to release a new offering as part of its accounts receivable automation solutions portfolio.

BlackLine AI Intelligence is a new offering that provides deep insights into financial risks within a customer base, removing the need for manual data searches. The offering is designed to be used in conjunction with BlackLine Cash Application, combining real-time data collection and analytics to paint a picture of customers financial behaviours.

According to BlackLine global accounts receivables business unit managing director Kevin Kimber, the BlackLine AR Intelligence solution can also deliver real-time credit, debt, and sales insights that can be used by teams such as accounts receivable, credit management and order-to-cash.

[This can also include] other senior stakeholders such as the CFO, Office of the Controller, Treasury and even the CRO/Sales team, enabling companies to reduce risk, improve forecasting, optimise working capital and grow revenues by analysing precise customer payment and credit behaviours.

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BlackLine states that it is actively expanding its capabilities in accounts receivable automation, particularly after its US$150 million acquisition of UK firm Rimilia in October 2020.

BlackLine made the acquisition to expand its capabilities in accounts receivable automation, adding this automation to financial close automation and accelerating BlackLine's larger, long-term plan for modernising both accounting and finance.

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NEW YORK, March 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --Deloitte announced a collaboration today with Automation Anywhere to drive further adoption of cloud deployments on Automation 360, the first cloud-native, AI-powered robotic process automation (RPA) platform. Deloitte will combine its leading capabilities in cloud infrastructure and automation to provide a first-of-its-kind solution that enables a successful migration of client automations to the cloud, helping organizations accelerate the rate and delivery of business performance while effectively limiting costs. Mutual customers, both first-time RPA and existing Automation Anywhere users, will experience a smooth transition to the cloud platform with Deloitte's migration as a service capabilities.

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According to research from Deloitte, "Automation with Intelligence; Pursuing Organization-wide Reimagination," the deployment rate of automation maturity has significantly advanced with 68% of business leaders using automation to respond to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and one-third accelerating their investment in cloud-hosted automations. Given Automation 360 is the first cloud-native intelligent automation platform, enterprise organizations have a new opportunity to increase scalability, deploy faster and reduce overall costs at a time when they need it most.

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(Bloomberg) -- Axel Kicillof relished the role he played in the Argentine government years ago: the brash left-wing economy minister who clashed at every opportunity with foreign investors. They hated him and he loved it.Today, Kicillof is once again locked in a bruising battle with financiers in New York and London. This time its as governor of Buenos Aires, which, along with nearly a dozen other provinces, called for debt restructuring talks last year as the federal government began negotiations of its own with creditors. But unlike the others, Buenos Aires has yet to emerge from default. In fact, 10 months after Kicillof halted payments on $7.1 billion worth of bonds, barely any progress has been made in talks.With the bonds now languishing at just 35 cents on the dollar in secondary markets and not a penny of interest income flowing their way, creditors are growing tired of the stalling and the disinterest displayed by Kicillofs aides. Last week, funds from the Buenos Aires Ad Hoc Bondholder Group sued the province in U.S. court for unpaid principal and interest.This gambit, analysts say, may help jump-start the process by forcing the province to take a more active role in negotiations. But, they warn, theres another dynamic at play that threatens to only embolden Kicillof to further radicalize his hard-line approach. The federal government -- under the growing influence of Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, a mentor to Kicillof -- is aggressively pushing for concessions to refinance a $45 billion failed program with the International Monetary Fund.The governments newly restructured sovereign bonds, like the defaulted Buenos Aires bonds, now trade below 40 cents on the dollar, a reflection of how badly the countrys economy and finances have been battered by the pandemic and lack of credibility.For Kicillof, this is political, said Diego Ferro, founder of M2M Capital in New York, a veteran debt investor who doesnt hold bonds of the province. Which means that unless he gets a deal consistent with what Argentina got, it will reflect poorly on him.And as August primaries and October mid-term elections get closer, politics will play an ever larger role in shaping all aspects of policy. Cutting a deal with the IMF or provincial bondholders isnt a priority, especially during a pandemic.Buenos Aires has extended the deadline on its debt proposal no fewer than 13 times. But last week, the province published details of a new one shown to New York-based hedge fund GoldenTree Asset Management, one of its largest creditors. It was swiftly rejected -- as was the counteroffer.The next day, the creditor group, including GoldenTree, submitted two legal claims against the province in the U.S District Court of New York seeking $366 million in unpaid interest and principal.Theres definitely more pressure with the litigation now ongoing, said Carlos de Sousa, an emerging market portfolio manager at Vontobel Asset Management in Zurich. Kicillof is quite ideologically driven and close to Cristina. And thus his lack of cooperation with creditors until recently.The provinces bonds due 2027 fell 0.3 cent to 37.7 cents on the dollar at 4:50 p.m. in Buenos Aires.Those who observed Kicillof as Economy Minister between 2013-2015 under then president Fernandez de Kirchner know that he doesnt quickly surrender in high profile conflicts with creditors. Back then he battled Paul Singers Elliott Management and other holdouts, insisting that Argentina couldnt comply with a ruling in their favor and eventually opted to default again with the presidents blessing.And while hes delegated negotiations this time around as governor to his provincial Economy Minister Pablo Lopez, hes very much involved.Read More: Buenos Aires Province Weighs Next Steps After Creditor LawsuitThe legal claims are only a strategy to pressure the government and the province will still have 60 days to respond, Lopez said in an interview last week. While Kicillof, 49, doesnt directly participate in conversations with bondholders, Lopez frequently discusses the debt restructuring process with him, he said.He is focused and interested, Lopez said. The debt negotiation is determined by the provincial government.The province is bigger than many countries and represents half of the debt from regional governments. Home to almost 18 million people and accounting for two-fifths of Argentinas GDP, its a critical political battleground in any election.Last week at an event, Fernandez de Kirchner, who hand-picked Alberto Fernandez as the presidential candidate in 2019, railed against the IMF and the terms being sought to renegotiate the largest credit agreement ever struck with the Washington-based lender. Bond prices fell.We cant pay because we dont have the money, she said, with Kicillof nodding in the background. While they spoke, Economy Minister Martin Guzman was wrapping up a trip to Washington after meeting IMF officials.After Fernandez took power in December 2019, Buenos Aires Province was the first to default on its debt payments in May. Days later, the federal government followed suit, along with several other provinces over the course of the next months.Since then, the government and eight provinces have settled with creditors. Deals ranged from about 55 cents on the dollar for the government while many regional authorities agreed to much smaller discounts, between 83.4 and 96.3 cents considering a 10% exit yield. While a few small provinces also remain in talks, Buenos Aires, which offered to pay about 65 cents, is the last major holdout.As economy minister, Kicillof negotiated a settlement with Spains Repsol SA after the government seized its stake in oil producer YPF SA in 2012, agreeing to compensate the company with bonds. He also struck a deal with the Paris Club of creditors.Those events give some investors hope that hell eventually come around to an agreement. Still, his rhetoric remains combative. Speaking at an event on Friday, Kicillof called investors unsupportive and intransigent.Court claims arent going to lead to solutions to the root problems, he said. We remain open to dialogue to reach an agreement thats convenient to creditors and that the province can pay.Even after the lawsuit was filed, Kicillof has little financial incentive to reach a settlement soon or offer concessions to creditors. The province realistically has no chance of tapping international markets for fresh funding, so it has little to lose in dragging out talks. And if a court ruling were to go against it, the provinces lawyers could appeal the case several times, and that could stretch the saga into the next gubernatorial elections in 2023.I dont see a situation where Kicillof agrees to a deal thats better than what the sovereign agreed to, Ferro said.(Updates with bond move in 11th paragraph.)For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.comSubscribe now to stay ahead with the most trusted business news source.2021 Bloomberg L.P.

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To realize the benefits of test automation,organizations have to take full advantage of smartertools, according to theThe World Quality Report 20202021.

Smart tools are those thatinclude more features based onartificial intelligence (AI)and machine learning (ML). These, along witha proliferation of JavaScript-based testing tools, more API testing, andmore emphasis on skills, are the trends to watch this year, experts say.

Here's what your organization needs to know about the state of test automation tools.

One of last year's predictionsthat'shappening now is the increased use of AIand MLin testing tools to make test automation easier, said Diego Lo Giudice, vice president and principal analyst at Forrester Research.

"The trend that everybody was expecting was that developers would take over testing. But developers don't really like testing. We can give them some testing to do, but the rest of the testing is done by other personas, such as the business testing persona."Diego Lo Giudice

However, while expectations of the benefits that AI and ML in testingcan bring to quality assurance remain high, and adoption is on the increase, there are few signs of significant general progress, as the World Quality Report noted:

"Partly, this is because relevant skill sets still aren't in place; and partly, the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted schedules, budgets, and plans.Nonetheless, enthusiasm hasn't diminished [and] organizations are putting AI high among their selection criteria for new QA solutions and tools."

The reason: Smart technologies will increase cost-efficiency, reduce the need for manual testing, shorten time to market, and help create and sustain continuous quality improvements, the report found.

Otherbenefits of AI-basedtest automationincludereducing test creation time, boosting test coverage, increasing resiliency of testing assets, and cutting down on test maintenance efforts, said Nick Mears, product marketing manager for functional testing at Micro Focus.

Additionally, new ML techniques are being applied to determine the scope of optimal automation tests; the goal is"to reduce the exponential growth in test scripts," according to the report.

Another new automation technique is the use of AI-based, self-healing scripts to automatically modify scripts during runtime, in case of object and page element changes, the report noted.

Although more tools are sporting AI capabilities, adoption has been limited to this point, said Malcolm Isaacs, a testing evangelist at Micro Focus. But that's about to change.

"We're at the point where I think we're going to take off. The tool set that we've had up until now has enabled a certain amount of AI-based automation. [But now] is kind of the inflection point where we can take it to the mainstreamit's now production-ready."Malcolm Isaacs

One of the most prominent trends in 2021 will be the increaseof JavaScript-based testing tools, such as Jest, Cypress, Puppeteer, and Playwright, said Nikolay Advolodkin, CEO and senior test automation engineer at Ultimate QA.

This is happeningbecause a lot of front-end web development is done with JavaScript. And when writing code in JavaScript, it is just mucheasier to alsotest that code in JavaScript, according to Advolodkin.

"All of this tooling that easily integrates with your software development practices just makes a very low barrier of entry, whether for developers or even testing individuals, who just enter and start testing the code."Nikolay Advolodkin

Another factor is the tight integration between application code and testing code, he said."You can do things like writing unit tests or component tests in JavaScript,Advolodkin said. "But then whenever you find testing gaps that you can't fulfill with either one of those strategies, you can start using stuff like system tests with Cypress, for example, which is just another extra tool inside of your JavaScript repository."

The use of Cypress, an end-to-end testing tool for browser-based apps,is growing in popularity because JavaScript has gained users, Advolodkin said.Another plus is Cypress' feature set. Among other features, the tooloffers browser automation,application programming interface (API) automation, and component testing for React web applications, he said.

"So it covers multiple layers of testing applications, as opposed to many other tools that kind of just focus on a single aspect."Nikolay Advolodkin

Tools like Selenium and Puppeteer areonly for browser-based front-end automation, so if you want to start doing API testing or component testing, now you have to pick up all their tools."Cypress has all of that," he said.

Since the majority of information sharing that occurs within Internet of Things (IoT) devices is via APIs, it's critical to test the APIs of IoT-enabled devices to ensure they're secure, saidAdvolodkin.

"As more of the world brings us devices onlineand we have smart thermostats, we have Alexa, we have smart light bulbs, TVs, and all of thatit becomes increasingly more important to test those things. And the way that we test them is using APInot browser-based tools, but API testing. So I think that's going to be huge."Nikolay Advolodkin

The QA community appears willing to consider using natural-language processing (NLP)-based automation tools. These provide benefits includingscriptless automation, model-based testing, the use of plain English statements to generate scripts, and a shallower learning curvethat allowsdifferent project stakeholders to contribute to automation efforts, as the The World Quality Report noted:

"Options such as self-healing capabilities are going to increase gradually, but there is no doubt that these are the future of automation. While the promises are big, we understand these automation tools aren't yet sufficiently mature."

Forrester'sLo Giudice said everybody talks about self-healing, but the reality is that it's not there yet.

"It's improving. There are some tools that do it better than others, but it's at a superficial level. It's nothing huge yet."Diego Lo Giudice

Although there are plenty of tools on the market, the trend is going to be less on tools and more on people just skilling themselves up because they want to be marketable, said Michael Fritzius, president of Arch DevOps.

"You're going to see more manual testers that want to get into automation. You're going to see more automation engineers that want to get into the architecture of automated testing solutions."Michael Fritzius

Rather than being the people developing the actual tests, they'll be overseeing and guiding teams about how to do it properly. "So they're going to try to do what they can to make it on their own," Fritzius said. "It's skilling yourself up to write software, mainly."

Adoption of commercial tools won't pick up until next year at the earliest, as a result of the investment involved, saidFritzius."It takes a lot of time and money."

Tools, on average, run at least$250,000. And then youhave to learn it and change the processes to integrate the tool into their system, he noted.

It's going takea while for companies to be willing to really risk that much moneyto improve theirprocesses,"knowing that it might take a while for us to see a result on that."

There will continue to be fragmentation in the test automation landscape throughout 2021 and likely into 2022, said Paul Grizzaffi, principal automation architect at Magenic.

Although there are different technologies,frameworks and stacks coming out, they are generallyattached to one browser or API.

"They need to be glued together by users. Or you have to go and get an additional framework or stack piece that would help bring all of that stuff together so that you can work with one technology, if you will, to do different types of automation."Paul Grizzaffi

Forrester's Lo Giudice said that companies prefer integrated platforms over best-of-breed testing tools.

Testing has many aspectsunit testing, functional testing, performance, load, security, integration testing, test data management, API testing,he said.

"Clients don't wantone tool for each, and they don't care about having a best of breed for each. They want an integrated platform because they're looking for a uniform, consistent experience going from one type of testing to another."Diego Lo Giudice

As with life in general, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a monkey wrench into the test automation landscape. As such, it's important for you to take these trends into consideration as you review your test automation tools and capabilities this year before investing time and money in anything new.

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