Customer Story
Reducing costs of regression testing of a hotel booking platform
Holiday Park is the biggest chain of resorts on the Polish side of the Baltic Sea, offering luxurious chalets and apartments for families on holidays with children.
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Regression testing costs
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IT team workload
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Booking reliability
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Faster test creation
Challenge
Bugs prevented users from booking.
The company created an original booking system for luxury resorts located throughout Poland. As time went on, the simple booking system was significantly expanded, causing the existing manual testing to become inefficient.
With a limited IT team, the company began looking for a solution that would reduce the amount of work required for testing. Undetected errors prevented reservations for accommodation, negatively affecting the business as well as the company's image — making regression testing a critical priority.
- Manual testing became inefficient as the booking system grew
- Limited IT team capacity to keep up with QA needs
- Undetected bugs blocked reservations and hurt the brand
- Need to reduce the cost and workload of regression testing
Holiday Park needed a reliable way to stabilize testing of the booking platform without overloading the IT team.
"I must say that you have created a very user-friendly and useful tool. Congratulations to the team!"
Solution
Reducing costs with BugBug.
In order to reduce the IT team's workload, the company was looking for a solution that would stabilize the testing of holiday booking systems. One option was to use the Protractor framework, but the costs and workload associated with creating and maintaining those tests exceeded expected figures.
The simplicity and speed of BugBug led to its selection. Another reason was the possibility of adapting the tests to the developments in the tested application.
Holiday Park was particularly interested in connecting the tests to the internal software development pipeline — also enabled by BugBug's CLI and API. As a comprehensive SaaS tool, BugBug was a perfect fit for Holiday Park's needs.
- Lower cost and maintenance compared to Protractor
- Easy adaptation of tests to changes in the application
- Integration with the internal development pipeline
- Cloud test execution after every release of holidaypark.pl
- Reusable components for complex multistage booking flows
In the words of Marcin Baran, team leader at Holiday Park, BugBug is "a very user-friendly and useful tool."
Results
How BugBug resolved the issue.
Using BugBug, fundamental tests of the booking system were created in only a few minutes — the test recorder worked flawlessly. More complicated tests of a multistage booking form were created very quickly using reusable components, producing a clear graph of the project's tested business path.
Tests are run in the cloud after every release of a new version of the holidaypark.pl application. As a result, the company does not have to maintain its own IT infrastructure for this specific purpose.
Marcin, the IT Team Leader at Holiday Park, appreciates how easy it is to create and set up BugBug, and how quickly tests are adapted to changes made in the application — using both the re-record feature and the visual editor.
Lower costs
of regression testing
Minutes
to create fundamental tests
Cloud runs
after every release
No infrastructure
to maintain in-house
- Reusable components speed up complex booking-flow tests
- Tests easily adapted to changes via re-record and visual editor
- Automated regression after every deployment
- IT team freed from maintaining custom test infrastructure
With BugBug in place, Holiday Park turned regression testing of its booking platform into a fast, reliable, and low-cost process.