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Cumbersome testing
procedures
A leading national retailer was developing a
new, mission critical, in-store application.
Product reliability and stability were
crucial, and the target deployment date was
fast approaching. The retailer needed
assurance that, given the time constraints,
their testing efforts would be adequate to
meet their quality requirements. The
retailer sought to optimize their
application of testing throughout the
software development lifecycle. The current
test process was cumbersome, but it was
unclear how to make the process more
efficient without sacrificing effectiveness.
Sophelle's
Assessment
Through an assessment of their quality
assurance process and testing cycle,
Sophelle found that the retailer's manual
approach to functional and user interface
testing was exhausting an inordinate amount
of available testing resources. Weekly code
updates required nearly 80 man-hours of
regression testing to ensure proper
coverage. In addition to being
time-consuming, regression testing involved
many mundane and repetitive tasks.
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Challenge
– Cumbersome, inefficient testing
processes were a bottleneck to the
entire development lifecycle.
Solution
– A consistent, sound test plan
using automated test scripts.
Result
– A rapid, more effective test cycle
and development lifecycle for
current and future development
initiatives. |
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Sophelle concluded that the automation of
the functional and user interface testing
could enhance the effectiveness of the
testing process and accelerate the overall
development cycle. Additionally, automated
testing would allow for more consistent
defect reporting.
Solution
Using Sophelle's
STAFTM
process (Sophelle's Test Automation
Framework), a sound test plan for
implementation was established, clearly
outlining testing segments to be automated.
Sophelle specifically identified several
hundred test cases and their expected
results according to application
requirements.
Scripting was performed remotely to fully
leverage Sophelle's investment in testing
infrastructure and to minimize associated
overhead. Sophelle's experienced test
engineers used a consistent standard for
test case and script creation to ensure that
all testers could quickly and easily
understand the nature and details of every
script.
Result
Sophelle delivered a set of reusable scripts
that automated 100% of the functional and
user interface test effort. Regression test
time was dramatically reduced. In only three
months, the regression test cycle which once
took nearly 80 hours of manual testing,
could be conducted in under 4 hours, at any
time of day, without human intervention.
Relieved of many of the repetitive tasks
associated with regression testing, manual
testers focused on achieving deeper levels
of product testing, and defect resolution.
In addition to speeding up the testing
process, the results of the automated tests
were captured in reports that clearly
communicated defect details and application
status to both engineers and management.
Automated testing was not only beneficial
for the current development project, but its
implementation were serve as a foundation
for an improved development lifecycle to be
used for future initiatives. |
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