Connected Home Security Device Testing Automation for a Home Solution Manufacturer in the US
Overview
The client is a US-based Fortune 500 company in connected home and security products.They wanted to save the time and efforts involved in manual validation/testing of each component release for their safety products and improve the team’s efficiency. ACL Digital developed testing automation solution based on Appium and Robot Framework for client’s devices.
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Challenges
Lack of automation tool for testing devices & mobile app
Build automated test suites for safety devices
Minimize time for testing and improve team’s efficiency
Solution
- Identified Robot and Appium as open-source automation framework and tools to be utilized
- Automated onboarding flow including safety devices and mobile application behavior
- Selected manual test cases that can be automated using identified tools
- Developed automated test suites for on-boarding, sanity, regression, OTA and Alexa for safety devices
- Developed parallel execution feature to minimize automation execution time
- Integrated TestRail, Confluence and Grafana to generate automation reports
- Integrated Jenkins DevOps automation tool to validate generated build
Outcomes
- Improved team’s productivity with a 70% test automation coverage across device firmware and Android/iOS mobile applications
- Faster time to market by reducing 80% testing time (from 80 to 16) for each release
