Pick three: fast, reliable, cheap (an ATF story from Harvard Business School)

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Session Code: BRE0921

Presenter(s): Jeff, Poornima, Sukeshi

Company(s): Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School

Abstract:

As with many institutions, testing new development at Harvard Business School is an expensive, time-consuming, manual process prone to human error and delays delivery of value to customers. After years of unstable development work, their manual test suites continuously exhausted QA resources and delayed delivery of new value to customers. During each development cycle, executing acceptance and regression tests manually was expensive and took days. The testing cycle substantially limited development velocity and compromised testing quality.

With a dedicated collaboration between development and QA, they created a series of automated test suites, from unit to regression, in order to minimize risk while rapidly delivering consistent high-value testing in an abbreviated test cycle. See a demonstration on how Automated test Framework (ATF) reduced regression from 40 hours to 20 minutes. This reduced delivery overhead by half while doubling their capacity to deliver value and enabling customers to do their work better.