Customer Story
How BugBug doubled the productivity of a small QA team
GDi is a leading provider of ultra-efficient Digital Asset Management services and focused software solutions, helping clients safely and efficiently manage their asset portfolios.
2x
Test Department productivity
↓
Regression testing time
↑
Release confidence
Freed
R&D capacity
Challenge
Big test coverage with a small testing team.
The GDi team is undergoing upgrades and enhancements to Vision, their web-based platform that transforms flat asset data into immersive 360-degree visuals. They wanted to improve product development processes to concentrate on the features that would add the most value to the application.
While the Vision platform is large, the Testing Department at GDi is relatively small — causing a situation where up to half the R&D team was involved in regression testing. Even with everyone helping, the testing process took 2-3 days to test the app fully.
- Large platform with extensive regression surface
- Small testing team relative to the product scope
- Up to half the R&D team pulled into manual regression
- Full test pass consumed 2-3 working days every release
GDi needed a way to scale test coverage without scaling the team.
"BugBug don't require anyone to learn to code or invest time in learning complicated procedures just to get it to work. Our Test Department has been able to spend more time providing value and actually testing than learning how to use the tool."
Solution
An easy-to-learn, no-code test automation tool.
GDi wanted to find a tool that would be very easy to learn and wouldn't require anyone to learn to code or invest time in learning complicated procedures to get it to work.
As a remote team, they sought a cloud-based testing tool to facilitate collaborative testing across team members as needed. Additionally, they were in need of a solution that could automate test scheduling on remote machines at convenient times.
Thanks to BugBug, the Test Department has been able to spend more time providing value and actually testing than learning how to use the tool.
- No-code recorder anyone on the team can use
- Cloud-based execution for a remote, collaborative team
- Scheduled runs on remote machines at convenient times
- Minimal ramp-up time to productive testing
BugBug gave GDi a low-friction automation layer that the whole team could adopt.
Results
Increased productivity of the Test Department.
After two release cycles using BugBug, GDi are already seeing an improvement in the time taken to test Vision, and it is no longer an 'all hands-on deck' activity to get through regression testing at the end of a release. They have noticed a significant decrease of multiple working-days worth of hours in the testing.
Now that they have sufficient automated test coverage, the R&D Department has been able to take on some of the larger tasks they had planned, upgrading technologies and major refactoring of certain areas.
Since adopting BugBug, the Test Department's productivity has nearly doubled. Instead of manual test scripting, the team now efficiently records and runs tests with ease, simply naming components and executing them as required.
2x productivity
in the Test Department
Days saved
per release cycle
R&D unblocked
for larger initiatives
Outstanding value
vs competitors
- Regression no longer requires the whole R&D team
- Faster, more reliable release testing
- Capacity freed for upgrades and refactoring
- Greater confidence in application changes
BugBug helped GDi do more with the team they already had.