Business Context
Mastek developed a web-based cloud product suite to overcome challenges posed by the existing Windows-based solution.
The Client
Large education MIS solutions provider to 22,000+ UK schools, local education authorities, further and higher education.
The Challenge
- Frequent changes to requirements caused regression failures, security vulnerabilities, performance issues and technical debt
- Enterprise-based architecture changes made quality control and root cause analysis difficult
The Solution
Its technology partner since 2006, Mastek developed and supported the product suite.
Our testing services covered:- Test automation to help achieve their CI-CD pipeline and vision
- Continuous focus on quality including built-in quality (right code first time), unit test, integration test, system test and UAT
- Source code analysis and fix, reducing technical debt
- Exploratory testing used as part of functional testing
- Sanity testing and fit-for-use check
- Regressions testing, security tests, load testing and UAT support
The Outcome
- 40% savings in testing cost
- Automation saved 60-70% regression effort
- Reduced technical debt
- 90% test pack automated
- Load tests uncovered non-performant areas to be improvised
Award and Recognition
Winners of Excellence and Race to the Top Awards
Program for maintaining Velocity and Quality benchmarks
