About Client  

The client is one of the largest IoT solution providers in Belgium and specializes in offering a full range of application interfaces and web services to facilitate the integration with the customer’s platforms, enriching smart homes and buildings. The client provides a modular approach to integrating old and new technologies, such as smart meters, optical meters, sockets, and switches. Their online services are used through modern user interfaces like smartphones, PCs, and digital TVs.  

Client’s Problem Statement  

The client has a gateway for which smart plugs are paired and data intelligence solutions to detect water leaks, fridge freezer alerting, TV alerting, and more. With such a strong ecosystem of intelligent devices, the client was looking for a QA consultant and a partner to conduct test automation assessments, evaluate existing automation frameworks, and provide ongoing test automation services for their APIs and IoT applications. 

Solutions Offered: 

Tx deployed onsite automation teams and had offshore teams to perform the test automation assessment. Tx helped them by: 

• Offering service Virtualization which helped them in removing the dependency on physical devices 

• Setting up an ideal environment that covered most of the technology and used the same APIs to test the system. 

• Adding extra validation steps for the gateway, which takes SSH commands. This way, all the requests/instructions that were being sent to the gateway were noted 

• Validating response at the different levels (API response, SSH response, and the DB status, wherever necessary) 

Results Achieved  

• 100% automation achieved for smoke & regression test suites  

• Shortened the time to market by more than 50%  

• Increased profitability in terms of speed 

• Intensified customer experience 

• Improved the ROI significantly