Case Study
Teletrac Navman Case Study
At a glance
- Customer: Teletrac Navman, a SaaS company providing cloud-based GPS fleet tracking for 250,000+ vehicles in 87 countries, headquartered in Southern California with offices in the UK
- Challenge: Their Coded UI tests (a framework deprecated in 2019) needed heavy scripting, worked poorly outside Internet Explorer, and did not support distributed teams or testing several regions at once
- What they did: Moved to CloudQA instead of rewriting everything in Selenium, and connected it to their Azure DevOps (TFS) pipeline, Jenkins and Subversion
- Outcome: A fully automated regression and release process, the same tests reused across environments, and global teams working on one test suite
Teletrac Navman is a SaaS product company headquartered in Southern California with offices in the United Kingdom. It provides cloud-based GPS fleet tracking software that’s being used to track 250,000+ vehicles in 87 countries.
Before CloudQA
Teletrac Navman has distributed teams, working from countries in different time zones. So the coordination of teams is a must.
But using Coded UI for web test automation came with a lot of hassles:
- Coded UI, a deprecated UI-driven functional testing tool was deprecated in 2019.
- It was becoming outdated for the rapidly upgrading of web technologies.
- Moreover, Teletrac Navman couldn’t manage global operations using Coded UI due to a lack of collaboration features.
- Testing more than one region at the same time was an unsolved issue.
- Test automation with Coded UI was time-consuming and required a lot of scripting.
- Coded UI has good support for IE but performed inadequately for all other browsers.
Journey with CloudQA
Teletrac Navman was looking to move from Coded UI to Selenium for testing. But shifting to Selenium would have taken a lot of time and resources.
CloudQA came with everything they required. Teletrac Navman could work with:
- Selenium cloud, cross-browser testing, minimal test code dependencies, and an intuitive UI making automated tests maintenance simpler.
- Real-time coordination between global team members was established.
- Multiple users were able to generate test cases and test the application at the same time.
- The critical integrations with the TFS Application pipeline (Azure DevOps) and Jenkins for auto-triggering of tests and deployment upon success.
- And integration with Apache Subversion (SVN).
Conclusion
Teletrac Navman teams could collaborate globally. Regression testing automation is much faster with great reliability.
With CloudQA, team could set up a CI/CD pipeline in no time. Multiple environments setup made the life easy to maintain different variables for each environment. Hence re-use of same tests against the different environments was possible. Regression testing and release process was completely automated.
Teletrac Navman found CloudQA to be the best Coded UI alternative.
Lessons for your team
- Plan your move off a deprecated test framework before it blocks a release.
- Keep environment details (URLs, accounts, data) in variables so one test runs against every environment.
- Wire the regression suite into CI so deployment only continues when tests pass.
- Give distributed teams one shared place to create and run tests.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why did Teletrac Navman leave Coded UI?
Coded UI was deprecated in 2019, needed a lot of scripting, performed poorly outside Internet Explorer and lacked collaboration features for teams in different time zones.
Why not switch to Selenium?
A Selenium rewrite would have taken a lot of time and resources. CloudQA gave them cross-browser execution, minimal test code and a shared UI straight away.
Which tools did CloudQA integrate with?
Azure DevOps (TFS) and Jenkins to trigger tests and deploy on success, and Apache Subversion (SVN) for version control.