Automation Maintenance & Optimisation

Ensure your automation remains reliable, efficient, and aligned with your evolving product.

We don’t just fix broken tests — we continuously improve your automation to reduce flakiness, increase speed, and maximise long-term value.
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Why It Matters

Automation Doesn’t Fail — It Degrades

Over time, even well-built automation can become unstable due to:

  • Frequent application changes
  • Poor synchronisation strategies
  • Fragile selectors and test logic
  • Inconsistent test data and environments

Without structured maintenance, automation becomes:

  • Unreliable
  • Expensive to maintain
  • Hard to scale
What We Do

Stability + Performance + Continuous Improvement

We provide ongoing support to ensure your automation:

  • Runs consistently
  • Scales with your product
  • Delivers reliable feedback
  • Requires less effort to maintain
Core Capabilities

Comprehensive Migration & Modernization

Test Stability & Fixes

  • Identify and resolve broken test cases
  • Update locators and selectors
  • Handle UI/API changes
  • Fix intermittent failures

Flakiness Reduction

  • Root cause analysis of unstable tests
  • Improved wait and synchronisation strategies
  • Removal of brittle test logic
  • Stabilisation of test environments

Continuous Refactoring

  • Clean and optimise test code
  • Remove redundancy and duplication
  • Improve framework consistency
  • Align automation with evolving features

Execution Optimisation

  • Improve test execution speed
  • Enable and optimise parallel execution
  • Reduce unnecessary test runs
  • Enhance CI/CD pipeline efficiency

Monitoring & Reporting

  • Track flakiness trends and failure patterns
  • Provide actionable insights
  • Improve visibility into automation health
  • Support better release decisions

Test Data & Environment Support

  • Maintain reliable test data strategies
  • Ensure environment stability
  • Manage data setup and cleanup processes
Our Approach

Proactive, Not Reactive

Most teams fix issues after failures occur. We focus on preventing them.

  • Continuous monitoring of automation health
  • Early detection of instability patterns
  • Structured improvements to reduce future issues
  • Consistent standards across the automation suite

We track and reduce instability over time through structured optimisation.

Example trend:

Month 1 — High flakiness, frequent failures

Month 3 — Improved stability and reduced noise

Month 6 — Reliable automation with consistent results

Significant reduction in flaky failures

Faster root cause identification

Increased trust in automation results

Lower long-term maintenance effort

Ideal for teams that need a proactive automation strategy focused on preventing failures, improving stability, and maintaining consistent, reliable test automation across evolving products and pipelines.

Spend too much time fixing broken tests

Experience frequent flaky failures

Have slow or unreliable pipelines

Struggle to maintain automation as the product evolves

Our flexible engagement models ensure proactive automation support through continuous monitoring, early detection of instability patterns, structured improvements, and consistent standards that help prevent issues before they impact performance.

Ongoing maintenance (monthly retainer)

Sprint-based optimisation

Automation stabilisation engagements

Dedicated automation engineers

Subtle R2D Upsell

Fixing Symptoms or Solving the Root Cause?

If your automation requires constant maintenance, it may indicate deeper structural issues.

Explore how the R2D Automation System reduces maintenance through:

  • Standardised framework design
  • Built-in stability patterns
  • Scalable automation architecture
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Stabilise your automation and reduce maintenance overhead

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