250
Time to create 250 tests
63 Business days
5,000 / mo
(250 tests running 1x per day)
100 test failures
100 test runs
375 / mo
563 hrs / mo
4 QAEs, 1 SDETs
~$480,000 / year
10 tests in parallel (25 batches)
Time spent
500hrs / year
Run cost
~$15,600/ year
Team size is a good indicator of your app’s testing footprint.
The age of an application affects the number of tests it needs due to factors such as codebase stability, accumulated complexity, and tech debt.
Aiming for 80% E2E test coverage ensures critical paths are well-tested, significantly reducing the risk of undetected bugs.
2 hours per test case on average. This includes outlining, coding, creating test data, and verifying it works.
~1.5 hours on average. This includes re-running the test, reproducing the failure, debugging, PR reviews, and re-deploying the test code.
Edit fail rateAs of January 2022, the base salary for titles like Senior QA Engineer or Senior Test Automation Engineer in the US was $90,000 before benefits and other comp.
By default, we recommend the number of Software Development Engineers in Test (SDETs) based on industry standards.
An SDET enhances your QAE team by developing automated testing tools and frameworks, increasing testing efficiency, coverage, and reliability.
As of January 2022, the base salary for titles like Senior Software Engineer in Test and SDET in the US was $120,000 before benefits and other comp.
You should run the suite at least daily, or more if you deploy continuously.
Tests run simultaneously across multiple resources. This method can reduce total execution time significantly but might incur higher costs due to the need for more resources.
Major vendors charge ~$130/test/mo for up to 25 parallel runs and ~$100/test/mo for 26 or more.
Max: 625
Example: If you have 200 tests, you might run 4 batches of 50.
The average cost per sequential test run across AWS (t3.micro, t3.small, t3.medium, m5.large), CircleCI, GitHub Actions, and Travis CI is approximately $0.03 per run.
3-5 minutes is a good benchmark