Client:
Major Food Manufacturer
Industry:
Food and Beverage
Technology and Platforms:
Micro Focus, Unified Functional Testing
The test lab of a major food manufacturer was responsible for certifying changes to the company’s 46+ desktop profiles used by over 36,000 employees. The changes included OS updates, security patches, and new application releases that resulted in hundreds of testing events each month. Thousands of staff hours were being spent each month to certify the releases.
Overwhelmed by the workload and the cumbersome, unreliable, and mostly manual testing process, the Manager of IT QA contacted Forte Group to help the company streamline and automate its release certification process.
Working with the client, Forte Group designed and architected an automation engine that covered the entire profile certification process. This enabled a single test lab team member to certify multiple profiles simultaneously in significantly less time. This greatly improved the coverage, speed, and quality of the certification process.
Hundreds of testing events per month were executed manually.
The client’s lab team was simultaneously performing four to five testing events on separate physical PCs.
Time Savings
Data-driven automation resulted in a 92% reduction in the effort required to certify profiles.
Increased Quality
Errors in the certification process were eliminated by automating error prone, tedious manual activities.
Reduced Cost
The client eliminated most of their external contracting costs.