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Vistaprint – how a global marketing services giant created a unified automated testing platform with Telerik Test Studio

With three different QE automation platforms being used by their 100-strong worldwide testing team, Vistaprint needed to create a strategic solution that would support their future development needs. 

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Challenge

Inspired by the vision of a Quality Platform to support business activities across the organization, Vistaprint set out to replace its three existing QE automation platforms with a single, unified QE automation platform.

Solution

Vistaprint chose to leverage the Telerik Testing Framework, part of the Test Studio family, a framework for writing automated tests for HTML5, AJAX, Silverlight and WPF applications, ahead of automation frameworks from Microsoft and Selenium.

Result

By using the Telerik Testing Framework, Vistaprint: • Saved an enormous amount of time and effort, since they were familiar with the product, and it met their varied needs; • Incorporated this framework into their single UI framework; • They were able to test using recent versions of IE and FF;

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Story in Detail

Challenge

Some years earlier, Vistaprint had three separate and independently operating automation platforms that were used to validate their solutions. Two of the three platforms were used for the majority of the testing. These two platforms used the WebAii/Telerik framework. Each of these platforms had advantages and disadvantages but none could scale for the long-term without extensive increase in maintenance cost. In total, there were over a million lines of code and over 6,000 automation test programs across all three platforms. An initiative began to replace these three systems with one unified automation platform. This was part of a wider vision to create a quality platform to support business activities throughout the organization.

Solution

“Our initial estimate to develop the new unified platform was approximately one year with 4.5 engineers and another year to rewrite automation and retire the legacy systems using 5 engineers. Our estimates were fairly accurate. The most difficult part was finding qualified people for the project since it was a unique venture. We have retired all of the legacy systems.

As we deployed the unified platform in phases, the automation team created automation programs/ scripts to test the system. After we had a “bake off” between the legacy and new automation platform, the automation team fully engaged with the new platform writing new, efficient and well-designed automation programs.

One of the guiding principles for the new platform was to increase the efficiency of creating automation scripts. Therefore, we created robust frameworks that were easy to piece together. These frameworks were designed in layers based on unique subsystems. At the top layer, we created the business frameworks that used one or more foundational/infrastructure frameworks.

For the period of one year, we have implemented various fail-safe mechanisms to assure stability. The automation farm uptime has been upwards of 98 percent.”

Results

By using the Telerik Testing Framework, Vistaprint:

  • Saved an enormous amount of time and effort, since they were familiar with the product, and it met their varied needs.
  • Incorporated this framework into their single UI framework.
  • They were able to test using recent versions of IE and FF

Overall, Vistaprint successfully deployed a quality automation platform that scaled well with their business. Using automated UI testing had been done at Vistaprint for many years. The new platform standardized the way QE automated tests were designed and executed.

The Telerik Testing Framework has been an invaluable resource in creating an automation solution for Vistaprint. Without it, the efforts would have been much more limited and would have taken significantly longer to accomplish. Telerik’s support for the framework had been very valuable and had considerably reduced time required to create automated tests.

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