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Project Title: Full-Scale Testing for Castorama Mobile App, Automates 65% Testing

Company:EPAM Systems View Company Profile

Client (Country):Castorama (France, Europe)

Duration, months:confidential

Total Effort, person/months:confidential

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The Challenge

Castorama invited EPAM Systems to deliver a mobile application that would provide an extensive toolset for DIY shoppers including Augmented Reality Product Management, Commerce Module, Store Locator, YouTube Video Channel, Universal Scanner, Calculator and others.

This project also featured a comprehensive set of EPAM’s testing activities that included:

Test planning
Test strategy development
Functional testing
Compatibility testing
UI / usability testing
System testing
Automation testing
Contribution to application design decisions

The Solution

In addition to testing a varied and complex functionality, EPAM’s team was to test Camera-dependent functionality, Bar Codes/QR Codes recognition, Voice Recognition, Location services, and Social Sharing (Facebook, Twitter).

For this, EPAM designed specific test approaches for each of the modules, using a rich toolset (DDMS for Android and Instruments for iOS) to uncover hidden problems, like memory leaks, etc. Tight collaboration with the developers’ team ensured quick feedback on delivered functionality and helped maintain the fast pace of development.

Since the application supported multiple iOS and Android versions, it had to be tested on multiple devices with various screen sizes and resolutions. EPAM’s test team explored the target market and prioritized devices including both most popular and potentially most problematic devices in terms of testing. Based on the research, the testing lead developed a testing strategy to achieve maximum coverage with a reasonable set of devices.

The testing team automated 65% of tests for Android using the Robotium framework. This allowed saving time on repetitive tests, while the team was able to focus on complex issues discovered with exploratory tests.

Tools and Technologies

xCode
Eclipse IDE
Robotium
DDMS event log
Android SDK framework

The Results

The Castorama mobile application has been in production for the Android and iOS platforms for over two years. During this time, six versions have been released for each platform.

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