The team implements new features and fixes bugs. The software engineers did not have a quality assurance process to provide a quick feedback on the pushed new code to the production website and to prevent conflicts between work done in different time zones.

Horion Digital built an automation framework from scratch to ensure critical business functions are working as expected every time the site is updated with new code.

Each day, software engineers work around the clock to improve the website and meet customer needs. Every time a new software build is released, a manual software testing team looks for bugs. It is difficult to maintain this process due to the rapid pace of changing customer needs and requirements as well as the work of an international team in different time zones.

Our goal is to help Gillette US BigCommerce set up a QA process that provides fast feedback on the quality of the e-commerce site and this QA process can be used in different time zones every time it’s needed.

Automated tests can be used when new code is being pushed or when software engineers require automated testing.

We analyzed the e-commerce website and identified the most critical business flows We automated the most critical business processes to ensure everything works if a new code push is released.

By automating the positive and negative user flows, we ensured that all validations were being performed as expected.

We integrated automated tests into CI/CD pipelines, so that automated tests can be triggered when a new code change occurs and fast feedback can be provided.

Slack notifications have been integrated with visual image and video reports, so that engineers can easily see where issues are and can be fixed quickly and effectively.

Once automated tests were implemented, QA processes became smooth and well-rounded. Testing has been performed manually and automatically to ensure the highest level of software quality.

Manual testers were able to focus more on exploratory testing instead of repetitive testing of the key business functions thanks to the automated tests; testing became more efficient and faster

The developers could easily identify issues. As a result, this accelerated the development process

Daily automated testing of the e-commerce site helped to find edge bugs and to better understand it, which led to improvements and a better user experience.