Vaisala develops, manufactures and markets products and services for environmental and industrial measurement. The company had more than 1 000 employees in 2006. The Vaisala Group has offices and operations in Finland, Northern America, France, United Kingdom, Germany, China, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Japan and Australia.
The global business of environmental and industrial measurement demands very high software reliability and quality assurance is an essential focus area for Vaisala. Qentinel helped Vaisala on many aspects of quality assurance. Our co-operation started with requirement reviews and test process development. Next steps included training sessions, test planning, test automation and manual testing.
Qentinel analyzed the state of Vaisala's software testing in a major development project and evaluated the need for test automation. According to evaluation we introduced new testing tools and enhanced the testing process. The project's development and testing were organized in different continents, so processes had to be carefully considered. The development process became agile-like and the local test team focused on acceptance testing.
To support agile acceptance testing Qentinel created keyword driven test automation framework and dozens of automated test cases. New test environment supports easy creation of test cases and improves the visibility of testing activities to all participants of the project.
Qentinel's collaboration with Vaisala has improved the quality, scheduling, efficiency and cost-effectiveness of Vaisala's testing. Test automation provides Vaisala efficient regression testing and gives visibility to the factual project status.