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Results
Test maintenance time:
- Reduced by 30%
QA cycle
- Unknown
Industry
- Early childhood education
Headquarters
- Mountbatten Square, Singapore
NTUC First Campus (NFC) improves automation efficiency by 30% with Testsigma
Singapore’s largest childcare services provider sped up testing and accelerated release cycles with reliable low-code test automation.
Making quality preschool education accessible through holistic support framework.
At NTUC First Campus, we are more than just a leader in early childhood education. As an NTUC social enterprise, we are on a mission to enable bright futures for every child and their family.
Since 1977, NTUC First Campus (NFC) has been leading the industry as early childhood educators, introducing many inspirations and innovations in the journey to create bright futures for every child, their family and educators. With over 150 preschools and childcare centers across the nation, NFC strives to deliver quality education and care to young children.
As part of NFC’s strong commitment to deliver a quality digital platform to its community, the SkoolNet 2.0 system had gone through extensive manual and automated testing by the QA team.
However, due to the tight timelines and limited QA resources, the team encountered many challenges. Being the most challenging was the time consuming, costly maintenance, and instability of the existing test automation stacks. The situation worsened because the technical knowledge gaps existed within the internal QA team, making it difficult for internal movement when the automation workload is overwhelming.
NFC needed a solution which was able to provide the flexibility for the team to write their own code, while not being too complex for team members who were not so strong in coding but had immense knowledge in the business domain.
Yohanes Stuart Ho, the QA leadership who was seconded from NTUC Enterprise to lead the software QA transformation in NFC had a strong vision about automation. NFC’s automation framework should be in alignment with industry best practices, easy to implement, easy to maintain, flexible to adapt NFC’s specific scenarios, the most important thing is everyone (even for anyone without technical background) should be able to contribute.
And Testsigma proves it has all the capabilities needed by NFS.
Adopting low-code test automation
With the implementation of Testsigma, NFC found an all-in-one test automation solution that met their requirements.
A unique and specific Testsigma implementation by NFC, which worth to be referred to by other organizations is what they call it as “BDD all the way”. Where the conceptualization of test scenarios, manual test execution of the scenarios, and automation of the scenarios are implemented based on BDD mindset. Whereby the exact same scenarios and format were used from the conceptualization to the actual implementation in the automated script. In this way, team members who are very good in the business domain would not face difficulties when they are asked to automate the same scenarios.
Testsigma’s intuitive and user-friendly interface made it easy for NFC’s team members to create and maintain their automation tests in 30% less time.
Sample of Testsigma Add-On implemented by NFC
Sample of Testsigma UI Automation implemented by NFC
Sample of Testsigma API Automation implemented by NFC
Measurable impact of simplified test automation
Since adopting the low code test automation with Testsigma, NFC delivers reliable feedback to developers faster. In the future, NFC plans to leverage Testsigma’s powerful API testing capabilities to improve its API testing coverage.
