Apexon worked with the company beginning in 2015 for over two years. After performing a thorough analysis of all of the company’s testing and QA processes, Apexon developed a QE solution that enabled the company to execute all test cases on multiple platforms for multiple regions and countries — with a single click.
Success Story High Tech
Wireless Location-Based Services Firm Overcomes QE DetoursApexon cuts QE cycle time from weeks to hours 
This company provides automotive manufacturers with comprehensive mobile location services to deliver custom connected car experiences.
Search engine optimization was a core capability for enabling the latest connected car capabilities, but slow and inefficient quality engineering (QE) cycles were severely impacting the company’s time-to-market for these new services.
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Founded in 1999
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Focused on building the largest network of connected cars on the road
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Awarded top navigation provider in the small and compact premium category by J.D. Power
the Results
Key Outcomes
Comprehensive QE
Capability
Capability
Ability to test code on all platforms and regions
60% Faster
Testing Cycles
Testing Cycles
Due to more efficient and automated processes
Increased Confidence
in Testing
in Testing
Fewer expert resources needed for testing with new processes for development and code check-in automated processes
Go Digital
Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Be digital
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Evolve Digital
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick, and agile manner
Apexon assessed the company’s existing QE processes and infrastructure to fully understand the problems and requirements before recommending a solution.
Build digital infrastructure and foundation for enterprises to scale
A custom framework enabled minor changes to the search engine SDK or API without significantly increasing QE efforts.
A real-life environment-enabled code testing on all platforms for all regions.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
The Apexon team developed a metrics dashboard so the company could monitor and analyze performance issues in real-time.
The challenge
SLOW AND INEFFICIENT TESTING AND QA METHODS
Performance measurement was a major roadblock to optimizing the company’s search engine SDK and APIs.
Existing testing and QA methods were manual and inconsistent, delaying new releases and creating quality problems in market.
There were several factors involved including:
Long testing cycles
Dependency on code check-in to measure performance resulted in longer testing cycles
Slow performance measurement
Taking two days on average to measure performance once new code was checked-in
Difficult to make updates
Even minor changes to the search engine SDK or API significantly increased these testing efforts
Slow coding
Measurement was limited to code for one geographic region at a time
Lack of consistency
Performance varied significantly in production versus lab environments
The Solution
Better qe and testing framework
The company engaged Apexon to create a new QE/testing framework that would speed testing cycles and provide more accurate results.
Apexon started with a structural approach to break down the company’s current testing capability into smaller problems so that each issue could be addressed effectively.
The Apexon solution included the following key components:
Custom testing framework
A custom framework to test search engine SDK and APIs on platforms such as QNX and Android.
Real-time testing
The ability to test cases in real-time and run tests at unit test level rather than at code check-in.
Real-life test environment
A controllable real-life environment to test variables such as CPU memory, network conditions, and more.
Metrics dashboard
An intuitive metrics dashboard to monitor and analyze performance issues in real-time.
The end result was a streamlined solution that enabled testing for all platforms and geographic regions with a single click, dramatically speeding testing cycles and time to market for new connected car services.