Client

The client is a leading orthopaedic hospital in South India with multi-speciality facilities having a capacity of 650 beds catering to thousands of patients. They had an all in one software application to regulate patient registration, to maintain the stocks in Pharmaceutical Department, the records of the laboratory and the patient’s records. to monitor doctor’s availability to book an appointment, track food delivery, right from Canteen to patient’s room and its payment.

Challenges

The Project Manager in charge of the hospital management software was unable to spend time to perform the functional tests to analyse the quality, reliability, performance of the software application. They outsourced their application testing to us to ensure the web-based application developed works as intended for all the modules.

Their expectation was holistic approach that will meet all compliance and regulatory requirements. Further, they preferred our testing professional should understand how the software product works and automate testing for modules in the system, fix the bugs arising from the newly added features.

The following are the objectives of Functional testing

• To have one solution for maintaining various factors like standards, safety, compliance, cross dependency with other entities

• To help maintain the data security of the software application

• To make sure the whole application runs in a single go

• To help make the code-wise changes that improvise the reports

• To cover all the possible positive and the negative scenarios for reaching functionality and to execute the report

What We Did

Our automated Functional  test engineers studied the client’s needs and operational challenges they faced while using the software solution. For this the Groovy testing framework was chosen, as this is a JVM-based language that seamlessly integrates with Java. By using Spock, a Groovy testing framework, we introduced new ways of testing the Java applications hosted on the server. The automated testing was focused on solving their problem areas as below.

·         Automated the whole application using the Groovy language to Observe the actual and expected outputs

·         Spock and the Geb framework generated reports was easy-to-read, helped user understand where the errors have happened

·         A complete suite was built using Maven, so that the developer can easily pipeline with any of the CI/CD tools 

·         We ensured that any changes in one component or layer does not lead to side-effects on the other component

·         Integration of various frameworks was tested to ensure the functional, performance, and reliability between the modules.

End-to-end functional automation testing of the application ensured a 100% bug-free application

Technologies Used.

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Results

·         By outsourcing functional testing services to us client was able to ensures that new features or enhancements do not cause any unintended impact to the quality of the application

·         The execution reports are made more readable so that any non-tech user can understand the flow of the script

·         Our testing team conducted interoperability, compliance, regulatory, security, safety testing besides regular testing techniques to makes the application more reliable

·         Patient sensitive data and health information was protected with utmost priority around the specific aspects

Seamlessly Interconnecting this whole system to a single web application allowed us to keep track of code changes without leaving the tool.