Nétive and Provar Case Study
Customer: Nétive VMS focuses on creating software. This supports all aspects of recruitment, selection, engagement, and management of permanent and temporary workers.
Industry: Staffing
Number of Salesforce users: 50
QA team size: 3
Scope of systems tested with Provar: Salesforce customized by Nétive with Force.com components based on Visualforce, Lightning, and Community
Current number of Provar tests: 104
Introduction: About Nétive VMS
Nétive delivers the market-leading Vendor Management System (VMS) platform in the Netherlands. They also serve over 200 workforce management programs across ten countries.
Through an agile and component-based multi-tenant architecture, Nétive combines Vendor Management (VMS), Applicant Tracking (ATS), Statement of Work (SoW), and Freelancer Management (FMS) into one truly integrated solution hosted within Salesforce.
In addition, Nétive enables compliant and ISO27001-accredited end-to-end management of Workforce Management programs. Delivers in a commercially, strategically, and operationally efficient way. With a dedicated EMEA presence in the Netherlands, Belgium, and the U.K., Nétive brings nearly 20 years of experience in contingent workforce management.
About Nekst IT: Their Consulting Partner
Nekst IT is a leading provider of Salesforce test consulting services in Europe. They uniquely offer a deep understanding of Salesforce, which is why so many companies turn to Nekst IT for help optimizing and managing their Salesforce implementation throughout the entire process. Nekst IT is a Salesforce partner and has been a Provar consulting partner since 2017. Get in touch today to learn more about how Nekst IT can help your organization.
The Technology: Salesforce Customized by Nétive with Force.com Components based on Visualforce, Lightning, and Community
Nétive VMS uses highly customized components made with Force.com based on Visualforce, Lightning, and Community. Provar is uniquely suited to testing both end-to-end and component-specific test cases.
The Challenge: Manual Regression Testing and a Custom-Built Testing Solution Slowed Release Schedules
As a leading Salesforce Independent Software Vendor (ISV) partner, they provide cloud-based workforce management solutions that companies leverage globally. Nétive has developed an aggressive release schedule to deliver enhanced functionality and help its customers succeed.
Initially, Nétive relied on manual testing as part of their regression testing process. Like many before, the inability to scale manual testing pushed them to build a custom test automation tool. The challenges associated with maintaining a custom tool that kept pace with Salesforce releases led them to research test automation explicitly built for Salesforce.
Before Provar, each release cycle required the collaborative effort of three full-time testers and an additional three developers over five days.
The Solution: Perfectly Timed Test Coverage with Provar Tool
From the beginning of using Provar, Nétive added the creation of Provar tests as a required deliverable during the development process, and the work was not considered complete without them. As a result, each new release is delivered with up-to-date automated tests built with Provar.
With over 70 test cases supported with Provar automated tests, Nétive can run tests daily concurrently with development processes using Atlassian’s Bamboo continuous integration solution.
The Result: Reduction of their Technical Debt
It was draining for testers and development teams to have a growing manual regression set from one release to the next. By including Provar in the development process, testing and quality assurance have kept pace with development. Even functionality already in place before implementing Provar is included as stories in the sprint to be seamlessly covered in future releases.
The Surprise Win: Easy Switching Between Environments and Easy-to-View Test Results
“We are working in a lot of different environments with different users. With Provar, it is easy to switch between the environments. Also, the integration with Git makes switching branches and committing changes easy. And the object viewer is very powerful. You can select a record object and easily navigate it, but it’s also straightforward to check if the record is created correctly.“
The “Salesforce Test Integration Package” for analysis and reporting has given us a lot of insights into test outcomes and performance and which test cases are brittle.
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