Maintenance Burden
The ongoing effort required to keep an automated test suite passing as the application changes over time.
What is Maintenance Burden?
What is Maintenance Burden?
Maintenance burden is the recurring cost of updating tests when the application evolves—fixing broken selectors, adjusting flows, and chasing failures caused by UI churn rather than real bugs. For many teams this cost is what kills UI automation: the suite becomes more work to maintain than it's worth, so it's abandoned. Reducing this burden is central to sustainable testing. QI's self-healing engine automatically repairs locators when the UI shifts, cutting the maintenance that would otherwise make a growing suite unmanageable.