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Expert Insights: Are You Overpaying for GUI/UI Testing?

Expert Insights: Are You Overpaying for GUI/UI Testing?

The Real Cost of GUI Testing

Testing tools and frameworks are often chosen with good intentions: they are familiar, flexible, or initially inexpensive. What is less visible is how testing costs accumulate over time , not just in licensing, but in engineering effort, maintenance, and opportunity cost.

This guide looks beyond upfront pricing to examine the real cost of GUI testing as systems grow and evolve. Drawing on first-hand insights from teams across multiple industries and platforms, it highlights the warning signs that testing effort is starting to outweigh its value, and offers a practical framework for deciding when a different approach is needed.

For this guide, we interviewed Karim Boussema, Solutions Engineer at Qt Group, drawing on his first-hand experience across dozens of real-world development projects. His perspective reveals common GUI testing patterns, recurring pain points, and the moments when teams realize their current approach no longer scales.

The result is a practical reality check for teams developing interfaces built with various technologies and frameworks, and a clearer view of when it’s time to rethink how GUI testing is done.

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