About project
Platform
iOS, Android, Web
Company Profile
MyFitnessPal is the world’s most popular health and fitness app with an audience of more than 200 million users. The app helps to track calories, breakdown meal ingredients and log activities
Project Goals
- Build app’s Test Automation infrastructure
- Develop and maintain Automation Tests
- Implement a proper QA process for short release iterations & fast release cycle
Business Needs
Project Details
- Engagement Model
Outstaffing
- Duration
Since 2012
- Effort
25 QA engineers (at its maximum)
Technologies Used
Selenium
Carina Framework
Appium
Jenkins
GoGridRouter
TestNG
QPSinfra
Docker
Challenges and Solutions
A large user base (200M+) requires special handling and care to maintain integrity
To cope with a high level of risks we’ve built a custom QA process called Continuous QA, based on the industry best practices, CI methodology and development lifecycle specifics. This has already helped us to reduce average QA costs by 35% whilst maintaining quality levels
The number of regression tests required is continuously growing with each new update release
We’ve introduced Carina, a mobile test automation framework, developed in our labs. Among the core benefits here is 80% of code reuse between IOS and Android automated test cases — which dramatically boosts the development speed of automated tests
Huge time and budget costs to test many different mobile devices individually
We provided a Mobile testing cloud, which lets the company run the cases 24/7 on 30 mobile devices in the multithreaded grid. This solution includes both software and hardware layers, providing the full infrastructure required to execute the automated tests
Worldwide coverage with lots of languages (WEB – 15, Mobile – 20)
We scaled the QA to full support of international locales. Starting with manual acceptance we transformed it into a fully automated testing sequence
Results
Within a year the MyFitnessPal brand became an undeniable force in a fierce fitness app battleground. Since 2012 our team has been engaged in their projects and built a complete QA department from scratch. Solvd engineers were focused on implementing a proper QA process for short release iterations and a fast release cycle. We created an automated environment for Mobile, WEB, API testing and supported it with fully automated regression tests. Also, our manual testers scaled the local team, which positively affected the overall production performance.
Manual QA & test layers coverage:
Functional logic of the mobile app and the web version
UI elements across various screen resolutions
Mobile-specific testing: interruptions, gestures, network loss, back button, etc.
Identification of crashes and major memory leaks
Application performance and responsiveness under various usage conditions
Localization and UI adjustments across 20 languages