How to Make ServiceNow Automated Test Framework (ATF) Truly Reliable

Nayan ArchX
Giga Guru

Enterprise IT | ServiceNow | Test Automation | AI Governance

 

Why ATF Feels Powerful — and Fragile

ServiceNow’s Automated Test Framework (ATF) is one of the platform’s most underused strengths. It’s native, low-code, and designed to protect enterprises from regression failures during releases and upgrades.

Yet many teams struggle with:

  • Flaky test failures

  • High maintenance effort

  • Low trust in automation results

  • Slow triage when tests break

As a result, ATF often becomes shelfware instead of a trusted release gate.

 

A recent peer-reviewed research article published by SCIRP tackles this problem head-on:

Patel, N. (2026). Reliability-Centered Automation Testing for the ServiceNow Platform with Automated Test Framework (ATF). Technology and Investment, 17, 77–89. https://doi.org/10.4236/ti.2026.171006

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