How Cloudscene used automation testing to increase delivery speed
Cloudscene is a Brisbane based Growth and Establishment stage company building a digital procurement platform to help buyers and sellers of colocation\, cloud\, and connectivity across the globe. This is a highly valuable market space and a lot of competitors are striving to be the leader.
The Cloudscene website has all the arsenal it needs to be the leader in the cloud services procurement Market. Good marketing strategies\, Key cloud operators’ collaboration and great data sets. But how to get the good stuff out there fast enough with the help of their Developers and Testers ?
Like any startup\, testing was a responsibility performed by different stakeholders. Cloudscene was no different where the marketing was responsible for the software testing. However as the company grew\, the testing effort grew bigger and what was optimal became a bottleneck. How to alleviate this problem
“There is no luxury of time due to the potential of the platform”.
“Reputation and credibility on the line”
“Cloudscene is a customer facing product \,industry is harsh and does not forget mistakes”
“Cloudscene need more preventative measures to reduce failure creeping into production”
“We need the majority of user journeys to be automated”.
After the pandemic started and lockdown restrictions were in place\, a new challenge emerged for us \,which is how do we work remotely with the same efficiency as in house ? Scrum activities like daily standup’s and retrospectives would be done using google hangouts and working with Developers would be done using chatting on slack. There was resistance to this change but it soon became the new normal.
Daily Standups
Process Improvement Meetings
Increased Communication on Slack/Google Hangouts
Design Process Discussions
Reduce delivery time to production from 4 hours to below 30 mins using test automation
100% collaborative approach on Testing and freeing the critical resource
75% Total test automation coverage
Centralised Location for Tests
Track Automation Progress
Automation Metrics
Key App Workflows
Prioritised Test Cases
Detailed Test Plan
Release Plans
Exploratory Testing
Tool Set
Critical Use Cases
Cost to Benefit & ROI Analysis
Cross Browser Test Suite
Visual Regression test Suite
Visual Roadmaps
Weekly Reporting
With automation testing framework and exploratory testing in place, testing was taken over from other resources
We were able to reduce the time for regression testing from 3 hours to 20 mins from implementing automation testing
We covered critical test cases based on cost/ benefit analysis and automated them.
Successfully built a regression test suite for critical flows to run on demand when they have a new release and way before deadline.
Educate the client on how to address software delivery issues head on with automation
We were able to free up a critical resource. It’s hard to quantify the benefit but it’s definitely had impact
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