Why Automation test is not worth investing?

It is a vicious cycle.

Here is the thing. Why automation test suite not worth investing? Most of us may debate but CIO don't have time to seek return of investment or audit the whole investment. It is just another brick in the wall.


This explains why?

• We hire consultant to do the job. 
• Consulting or contractor create Automation suite and automate it.
• It keep adding more and more functionality.
• It create a big giant pack.

1. Problem 1. A big suite is not enough to run on time. Consume a whole day because automation tester doesn't understand the architecture. They have less idea about performance or coding on daily basis.
2. Problem 2. If it automation suite yield no results on time. It is futile
3. Problem 3. No one has time to look into this. No one wants to do parallel programming or identify the sweet and simple solution to meet objective. Per say think about regression that runs and yield results in just no time. Add to release pipeline.
4. Problem 4. Agile is fragile. So is our functional domain. Changes are radical. Automation Suite is not actual production copy or real time match. It fails the whole objective.
5. Problem 5. No one looks into it. No one question. If question it is taken care for given point of time and later the same old story. 

Bottom line is it automation test suite should be devops and ingrain in the process.