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Ranorex Studio Case Study

S&P 500 Computer Software Company

Introduction

This case study of a S&P 500 computer software company is based on a December 2017 survey of Ranorex Studio customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service. The profiled company asked to have their name blinded to protect their confidentiality.

“We have really huge test suite — with tens of thousands of cases. We have automated more than 40% of our test suite with Ranorex Studio.”

Challenges

The business challenges that led the profiled company to evaluate and ultimately select Ranorex Studio:

  • Top challenges associated with test automation:
    • Identifying and improving flaky tests
    • Maintaining deployment pipeline and automation environments (VMs)
    • Management not understanding the costs and limitations of automated testing

Use Case

The key features and functionalities of Ranorex Studio that the surveyed company uses:

  • Has 50+ people on their team performing Automated Testing.
  • Automating the following tests with Ranorex:
    • Functional UI
    • Integration
  • Integrated Jenkins with Ranorex.
  • Is using Jira for test management.
  • Testing the following application interfaces/platforms with Ranorex:
    • Desktop
    • Web

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with Ranorex Studio:

  • Ranorex Studio has helped in the following ways:
    • Increased their testing efficiency (less manual tests)
    • Shortened their test cycles
    • Gained robust and reliable automation
    • Improved their level of technical knowledge/skills
  • Realized a greater than 20% (saved 6+ hours a week) increase in productivity after using Ranorex Studio for test automation.
  • Reports the following as important features when they evaluated Ranorex automation tool:
    • Ease of use
    • Excellent object recognition
    • A strong automation API
    • The ability to fit into technology stacks (.NET, C#/VB.Net)
    • The ability to bring people with different skill sets closer together
    • Price




About This Data

This data was sourced directly from verified users of Ranorex by TechValidate.

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