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Peloton Delivers World-Class Exer-Cycling in Record Time
Peloton is redefining the way people exercise with a socially-connected indoor cycling studio experience for people to use on their own time in their own home.
When Peloton initially launched in 2012 it was completely focused on development, with no QA resources in place. Peloton looked to Apexon for its expertise in Agile, test automation, and continuous integration to support its product development efforts and assure an exceptional user experience.
New York-based exercise equipment and media company
3.1 million users and rapidly growing
Produces stationary bikes that stream videos on a touchscreen built on top of Android
Apexon worked with Peloton beginning in 2013 for over three years. Apexon was able to implement a Quality Engineering (QE) framework and solutions for testing all aspects of the tablet hardware and application involved in the Peloton offering.
Even with approximately 50 regression test scenarios, testing time was cut from 4 hours to 1.5 hours.
Using Selenium for Android, Apexon automated 80% of Peloton’s test footprint, clearing out a long backlog of test requirements to accelerate Peloton’s time to market.
Application performance and functionality was continuously monitored by 10 screens running simultaneously.
And greater control over operational costs.
With this company, Apexon worked across all stages of the digital lifecycle on multiple projects for two separate business units.
Accelerating the delivery of new digital initiatives with confidence
Creating the infrastructure and foundation to scale digital initiatives
Leveraging data and analytics to continuously improve digital delivery processes
Enable digital adoption in a quick and agile manner
Apexon Quality Pod created a comprehensive QE testing framework and implemented a Shift-Left strategy for ongoing quality control.
This enabled Peloton to focus on developing the best product, while Apexon provided QE for all aspects of the tablet hardware and application involved in the Peloton offering.
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Apexon deployed parallel testing using 3 different test suites on 3 different Android devices.
Apexon automated 80% of Peloton’s test footprint using Selenium for Android. This helped clear out a long backlog of test requirements to speed Peloton’s time to market.
Leverage data engineering to make strategic decisions and get digital right every time
Apexon is working to automate the testing of a custom point-of-sale retail solution – an iPad app in use at Peloton’s retail stores. The app is used for sales and connected to mobile payment platform Stripe for all transactions.
Apexon set up an ongoing monitoring framework for Peloton, with 10 screens running at all times, to check application performance and functionality and to act as a source of data for continuous integration.
Peloton was founded in New York’s Silicon Alley in 2012 to create a new concept in fitness. The Peloton includes interactive team sessions streamed through a custom Android tablet. Sensors measure resistance of the bike and send that data to the tablet.
Making the rides realistic required a virtual-reality-like answer, so that the video streaming on the bike’s tablet would correspond with the actions from the bike and vice-versa—all while designing social interactions to push and inspire the riders.
This required a combination of completely new and existing technology working together seamlessly, and while Peloton put all its efforts into product development, it had no QE resources in place.
Apexon was able to provide QE for all aspects of the tablet hardware and application involved in the Peloton offering.
When Apexon implemented the QE testing framework, 80% of Peloton’s test footprint was automated using Selenium for Android. In addition, regression testing time was cut by more than 50% – from 4 hours to 1.5 hours.
Apexon helped Peloton get their mobile, digital, and IoT initiative to market faster, more efficiently and more flexibly while assuring an outstanding user experience. The Peloton team was able to focus its efforts on creating and improving a truly unique and exceptional experience for its users.
