Testing Automation of Connected Heater Devices for a Leading US-Based Manufacturer
Overview
The client is a US-based manufacturer of HVAC system and Water heater for residential/commercial buildings. They wanted to automate testing of 100K+ devices manufactured to manage and meet the release timelines. ACL Digital developed test automation tool using Robot Framework to automate mobile to end device testing including regression, functional, UI testing.
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Challenges
Lack of automation tool for testing devices & mobile app
Inadequate capacity for simultaneous testing across multiple devices
Minimize time and eliminate unnecessary delays
Solution
- Developed test automation tool using Robot Framework to automate mobile to end device testing including regression, functional, UI testing
- Executed 1100+ test cases for various water heater devices (using TestRail, BitRise, Jenkins, AWS S3, etc.)
- Parallel testing on multiple devices reducing test cycles and execution time
- Cloud API automation using Postman, validating cloud response on every deployment cycle on respective environments
- Performance Testing using Python and Locust by writing test scenarios on ~120k devices on AWS EC2 instances
- Generated test reports in HTML, XML format for mobile, end devices using Robot framework and for cloud using Newman reporter
Outcomes
- Enhanced team’s productivity with 95% test automation coverage across devices and mobile apps
- Faster time to market by reducing the entire testing cycle from 4 days to just 11 hours
