Customer Background

Our customer is an US based leading retail industry with over 293 stores located in 16 states across the southern United States and a growing digital presence. They rely heavily on their enterprise integration platform for real time routing and transforming millions of transactions across multiple applications, making it the heart of their IT operations.

Technology Used

The products and technologies used in this effort by our team and the customer were,

• IIB Toolkit
• MQ Explorer
• RFH UTIL
• WinSCP
• SOAPUI
• SQL Developer
• Eclipse IDE
• MQ and JMS
• ODBC, FTP and FTE
• Selenium Webdriver and JUnit

The Business Requirement

The customer is using Miracle's Enterprise Monitoring Framework with open standards and IIB flows, that helped them to integrate their framework easily into the existing IIB flows and also capture the ability to track the transaction's success, failures and event resubmission from the portal.

The challenge with this project was since it was an IIB upgrade project (IIB v8 to IIB v10), there were approximately 250 interfaces available including MQ, FTE, File, HTTP and Database Nodes, and a lot of the documentation was missing. There was a need for exhaustive QA with specific focus on Web Services testing.

Our Solution and Support

Team Miracle understood the needs of the customer and proposed solution and support with the below features,

• Implemented Miracle QA Process - Implemented comprehensive and reliable testing processes which adheres to the highest quality of testing standards supported by the key drivers - People, Process and Tools, leading to Ownership, Transparency, and effective Communication
• Leveraged Fixed-Price Model - A dedicated onsite and offshore QA team was provided for forming a well-balanced team with skills necessary for onsite coordination with client and test execution at offshore
• Test Case Automation - Miracle's QA Automation team for this project, started reviewing the functional specifications to develop automation test script strategy and Test Plan document
• 24x5 QA Support - We performed Unit, Integration and Database testing on all interfaces of the application; Our QA Automation team was flexible enough to handle seasonal demand and dedicated to support the project in (24X5) cycle
• Designing Test Plan and Test Strategy document
• Automation Test Scripts design based on functional specs provided
• Test data collection - Collecting and ensuring all the test data from IIB 8 dashboard
• Queue identification - Identifying correct queue from IIB Toolkit for queue input node
• File location identification - Identifying the file source location from IIB Toolkit for file input node
• Used MVC architecture for writing automation scripts using JAVA
• Flow transformation - Ensuring the flow is transformed correctly according to business rules
• Test data identification - Assuring the test data is correctly sent to interfaces
• Database data validation - Validating the data in database for all the interfaces
• Execution of automation test scripts - Creating the script execution workflow code to execute further scripts
• Execution through command prompt - Making sure that the test script can be executed using eclipse IDE and command prompt
• Execution platform - Ensuring that the test scripts can be executed on Windows and Unix/Linux
• Handling exception - Accounted and coded for error handling and exception handling scenarios in automation scripts
• Report generation - Generates automated reports after execution of automation test cases with pass/fail along with details

Customer Benefits

Through our innovative services the customer was able to achieve huge benefits. Some of the features/benefits that the customer experienced were,

• Created 250 test scripts for all the interfaces (migrated from IIB v8 to IIB v10)
• Automation scripts can be executed in Windows as well as in Unix environments
• Achieved optimal performance for complex interfaces
• Reduced labor costs significantly by automating test execution
• Reduced testing efforts from weeks to days and improved speed to delivery and quality of flows