About project
Industry
Fitness
Platform
iOS, Android, Web
Company Profile
Under Armour, Inc. is a leading inventor, marketer, and distributor of innovative products that experienced engineers tailor to help athletes perform better. The brand owns a range of B2C web resources for marketing athletic performance apparel, footwear, and accessories. Solvd became their complex QA service provider and built a performance and load testing framework to test-drive all their web resources.
Project Goals
- Implement an in-house performance and load testing framework
- Revisit a previous vendor’s reporting format installation and improve scalability
- Set up a co-located and cloud load-testing infrastructure
- Enable web-based reporting and a report export option
- Create flexible testing capabilities to simulate different load testing scenarios and volumes of customer traffic
- Introduce baseline and trend reporting to highlight improvements and failures
- For managers, introduce summarized reporting with drill-down capability for engineering investigation
- Make web performance testing possible during each release
- Prepare e-commerce platforms for the end-of-year holiday period
Business Needs
- Reduce costs and remove schedule restrictions imposed by a previous vendor
- Make it possible to run performance and load testing when needed and on any projects
Project Details
- Engagement Model
Outstaffing
- Duration
Since 2020
- Effort
4 test automation engineers
Platforms
SFCC (LRA, SFRA & PWA)
OCAPI
UACAPI
OIS
SFCC
Technologies Used
Gatling
Scala
Mocha
Jenkins
Puppeteer
Lighthouse
Slack
JavaScript
Challenges and Solutions
Network session timeouts occurred during simulations of high volume customer traffic, like on Black Friday sales.
Enhanced capacity of the traffic generating server to increase the maximum number of concurrent network sessions
Data presentation was different from what was stipulated in the previous vendor’s reports.
Review and adopt the new reporting format.
Results
High load testing run internally without relying on any 3rd party
Expanded performance and load testing to OIS, OCAPI, UACAPI, PWA-UK, and Ecomm Sites (US, UK, CA & JP)
Yearly budget savings and more savings as additional tests are run and additional sites added
Quarterly load testing made possible on nearly all projects
Weekly website performance monitoring
Tracking of low performance and assigning issues to the development team on time
