An app API team optimizes quality and reduces costs with Testany Platform

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.

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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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:

• 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.
• Increased Release Frequency: The team has achieved an impressive capability of releasing over 130 updates per month.
• Reduced Testing Costs: Compared to the period before implementing Testany, the total cost of testing has been reduced by 55%.