CNRL, a large energy company, relys on IBM Maximo for their Asset management life cycle. They engaged us for their Maximo testing optimization to increase velocity and quality.
Business Context
- Implement more features on IBM Maximo after their initial go-live implementation
- Deal with huge number of defects / issues from initial implementation
- Improve stakeholder confidence for each monthly release
- Business Users are performing the testing activities so want to free up the business user capacity
Business Challenges
- Complex Business Processes across many different applications resulting in long Testing Cycles for critical business flows
- Frequent Patch/Upgrades each requiring time consuming Regression cycles to ensure quality
- Diverse Technology Stack (IBM Maximo, JDE etc.) increase the complexity and scope of testing
- Business users were being asked to run functional tests manually based on their knowledge, taking time away from their day – to day responsibilities.
Technical Challenges
- Traditional Maximo Automation Tests are not reliable because of dynamic nature of application objects
- Object properties change with new builds breaking automated tests
- Object properties change with environments, making it extremely difficult to write stable cross-environment automation tests.
- Testing team has limited domain knowledge so business users manually validate workflows across multiple environments leading to reduced velocity and drawn out test cycles
- Validating across multiple browsers was not possible due to huge manual effort required
Bqurious Solution for IBM Maximo
- BQ platform empowers Business users or Manual QA Engineers to create Automated tests as easily as creating manual tests, without writing a single line of code.
- BQ intuitively understands and transparently handles dynamic nature of IBM Maximo application increasing productivity and quality manifolds.
- Easily create automated tests spanning multiple Technologies/Applications (IBM Maximo, JD Edwards, Mobile etc.), leading to reduced integration issues and increased stakeholder confidence
- Test across multiple browsers with a single click, increasing test coverage.
- Regression Test Cycle reduced from 1 week to less than 4 hours.
- Integrated Test Management and Automation Platform to manage Requirements, Releases, Test Assets, Defects with rich reporting and dashboards in a single intuitive solution
- Test Results with screenshots that act as User Manuals for new users enabling the organization to create, retain and disseminate Domain knowledge.
- Test Results exported to Pdf for easy sharing with stakeholders.
Results
- Comprehensive End-to-End Testing with customer verifiable results
- 60% reduction in testing effort leading to faster implementation
- Repeatable, single-click regression testing in a fraction of time
- Faster time to identify and fix issues
- Increased test coverage leading to better quality
- Increased stakeholder confidence
- Better employee engagement and utilization
