Client:
Educational technology tool
Type of work:
Team Augmentation / Quality Assurance and Testing
Industry:
Education
Website:
follettlearning.com
Technology and Platforms:
Java/HTML, AngularJS, WebDriver, API, Selenium
Traditional curriculum is being replaced by personalized learning methods that offer greater affordances for the varying needs of individual students. Digital education tools help teachers free up administrative time and increase student engagement with instruction and learning.
Follett is the world’s largest provider of educational books, materials, and entertainment and provides educational technology tools supporting more than 80,000 US schools daily. Follett’s technology makes it easier to evaluate student performance and create adaptive, personalized learning models that tailor support to students’ needs.
To fully utilize its tools’ potential, Follett wanted to create a streamlined quality assurance (QA), testing, and continuous integration (CI) pipeline to improve the quality of two education management products. Forte Group made it happen.
Background
- Follett Aspen Student Information System is an all-in-one system for hosting and managing secured student data required outside quality control expertise.
- Aspen eliminates the need for multiple databases and streamlines student data reporting and analysis.
- Destiny Discover’s is a cloud-based library that allows students and educators to search, share, and collaborate with print and digital educational resources.
- This library includes e-books, audio and interactive books that teachers and students can access and share anywhere through a web or mobile app.
Business challenges
- Introduce industry-wide digital transformation to educators and students
- Modernize and improve the internal software products, Aspen and Destiny Discover Follett through a testing overhaul
- Evolve the organization’s degree of technical competency to streamline the processes of accessing and analyzing data
- Make Follett services and strategies data-driven and fit for the long haul
Solution features
Custom test automation framework
10x increase in test execution
Evolution to a continuous testing pipeline