Case Study
30,000
test pipeline executed per month
130
deployment per month
The background
The API team in this world-famous company is responsible for the critical API Gateway that allows the consumers’ app to communicate seamlessly between the frontend and backend. This app is a vital tool for hundreds of thousands of their customers, providing convenient access to real-time information, remote control features, and get prompt support from the company. The API Gateway plays a crucial role in ensuring this communication is reliable and efficient.
55%
cost reduction on testing
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The challenge
Given the importance of the API Gateway, the team faces immense pressure to deliver and maintain high-quality service. To ensure product quality, the team must conduct extensive testing throughout the DevOps loop. However, this process has several significant challenges:
• Limited Testing Capabilities: Traditional testing methods were insufficient for simulating real user experiences, which affected the reliability of the app.
• High Costs: The inefficiencies in the testing process led to increased operational costs, straining the team’s budget.
• Need for Continuous Improvement: To remain competitive and meet user expectations, the team required a solution that could continuously enhance product quality and user experience.
These challenges not only slowed down the product release cycle but also imposed unbearable costs on the team. Addressing these issues became crucial for the API team’s success and for maintaining the trust of their customers.
Optimal solution
Facing immense pressure to deliver and maintain high-quality service, the team sought an optimal solution to their testing challenges. The introduction of the Testany Platform proved to be a game-changer, helping the team enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and maintain superior product quality.
Three key features of the Testany Platform played a crucial role in overcoming the team’s difficulties: Gatekeeper, Testany Secrets Service, and Trusted Runtime.
• Gatekeeper: This feature provided us with the ability to integrate multi-environment and long-chain user journey tests and regression tests into our DevOps process, significantly simplifying testing execution steps. By using Gatekeeper, API team developers could automatically conduct tests across various environments and stages with just the configuration of CI/CD stages and steps. This automation eliminated numerous manual steps and streamlined the process.
• Testany Secrets Service: Securely managing sensitive information was a major concern for our team. Testany Secrets Service offered a method for securely accessing a centralized and secure secrets repository, managing credentials, and other sensitive data. This not only eliminated unsafe storage practices but also ensured that all sensitive information was handled with the highest level of security, thus protecting the data integrity.
• Trusted Runtime: This feature provided the team with a private deployment testing runtime, ensuring that all testing programs and the programs being tested were end-to-end within the company’s trusted network. This ensured a stable, reliable, and secure testing environment, further reducing testing execution costs, and improving testing execution speed and feedback speed.
By leveraging these features, the Testany Platform enabled the team to streamline testing processes, enhance security, and improve efficiency. This allowed the app API team to conduct more thorough and reliable tests, accelerate product iteration cycle, and reduce overall costs. Ultimately, these improvements led to a better user experience for customers, maintaining company's reputation for quality and reliability.
Great achievement
The introduction of the Testany Platform brought remarkable improvements and substantial value to the app API team. By leveraging the platform’s advanced features, the team achieved several significant milestones:
1. Enhanced Testing Capacity: With the Testany Platform, the app API team can now execute over 30,000 tests every month without adding a single dedicated testing position. This automation and efficiency have allowed the team to scale their testing efforts significantly.
2. Increased Release Frequency: The team has achieved an impressive capability of releasing over 130 updates per month. This continuous iteration and deployment ensure that updates and new features are delivered to the market at the fastest possible speed, embodying the true spirit of continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
3. Reduced Testing Costs: Compared to the period before implementing Testany, the total cost of testing has been reduced by 55%. This cost reduction is primarily due to the reallocation of human resources from manual testing tasks to more valuable product development work.
The efficiency gained from automated testing has freed up the team’s time, allowing them to focus on enhancing the product further. The substantial improvements in testing capacity, release frequency, and cost efficiency underscore the transformative impact of the Testany Platform on the app API team. These achievements not only enhance the team’s productivity but also contribute to delivering a better user experience for their both internal and external customers.
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