Happier Customers are made through Automated Testing

People come to us all the time and say we want to release software faster and one of my first questions is “What is your Automated Test Coverage Look Like?”. I can’t believe that in today’s Day and Age that people don’t have an immediate answer to this question.

There was a time where I would go to release software and we would start our manual regression test. This would take weeks for us to go through these tests, we would get everyone involved from developers to manual testers to management sometimes just to make sure we did a great job. Heaven forbid that we found a actual problem. When we found a problem, we would have to put everything on hold and do all the bug fixes and then go through the regression tests again.

We learned from this problem and have passed our experience on to hundreds of our customers. Today our team checks in code and we have a build pipeline that runs off and builds the code base if that fails an email is sent and the last person to check in is responsible to fix it. Then a series of Unit tests run telling that developer that their code passed regression tests. After the Unit Tests run then a series of Front to back UI tests run for that final feel good before it goes to a staging server waiting for release.

We employ a Continuous Integration mindset here and it works flawlessly. We can deploy at the drop of a dime. Depending on your situation we don’t always recommend a Continuous Integration model that goes all the way out to your client, because a true Enterprise solution probably wants some sort of a gatekeeper so they can control the releases.

If you want Efficiency, Lowered Cost, and Happier customers you should make sure that your development team uses Automated Testing at the heart of everything they do. You will be able to plan your future better, react to your customers better and release in an instant to serve their needs.

If you find yourself in need of a automated test team to help you build all your regression tests, know that you have a true partner in PowDevs. We are here to serve you.