A Gartner report articulates that the need to support faster time-to-market with higher quality is driving the demand for effective functional test automation tools. Further, a leading research paper on software testing and automation cites that "Increased Automation levels are the main factors that can lead to higher cost efficiencies for any QA and Testing Team. As QA and Testing organizations become more structured in their approach to testing and their use of test automation and accelerators, the cost of quality goes down."
SAP CBTA is a Test Automation tool launched by SAP as a free built-in under its Solution Manager License. CBTA helps in creation of test scripts which are modular in nature.