IDG Contributor Network: Automating the workplace

Automation has fundamentally changed how businesses operate. Automating the mundane tasks at workplace has one of the highest return on investments, because it lets the workers focus on what really matters - shipping features and fixing bugs. Several areas where automation is common today are explored below.Testing
Testing is perhaps the most automated task in software development lifecycle. The idea is that developers write some tests and then make some changes to the codebase as required. If t