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Why I Prefer an On-Premises Continuous Testing Lab Over the Cloud? — Part B: Significant Cost Savings
№1 reason for small and medium software business: save big money!
5 min readJun 2, 2025
In this article series:
- Part A: Introduction
- Part B: Significant Cost Savings
- Part C: Superior Performance (upcoming)
- Part D: Higher Reliability (upcoming)
- Part E: Greater Flexibility (upcoming)
- Part F: Easier Implementation Than Most Thought (upcoming)
- Part G: Security Concerns (upcoming)
- Part H: Advice and FAQ (upcoming)
A common excuse many software companies use for not implementing end-to-end test automation (mandatory for real Agile/DevOps) is a lack of funding. Twenty years ago, a license for automation tools like HP QuickTest Pro or IBM Rational Functional Tester cost over $10,000. Today, however, the most popular test automation frameworks are free and open-source. For example, in the realm of web testing, the top two frameworks — Selenium WebDriver and Playwright — are both free.
