Recurring · Onboarding
Onboarding Not Working
The onboarding flow broke, so new employees could not complete it.
Founder Project · HR Software
HR Software Testing: 800+ Automated Tests with RSpec and Capybara
Our founder led a six-person QA team on an HR platform: 1,000+ manual test cases plus 800+ automated tests in RSpec and Capybara, run in CircleCI.
A founder project: work our founder, Muhammad Usman, led before he started SprintSynergy in 2021. The client is not named.
founder-project / hr-platformCompleted
- Client
- HR software company, unnamed
- Platform
- HR web platform and its APIs
- Role
- Our founder led QA
- Team
- 3 automation testers and 3 manual testers, led by our founder
- Manual Testing
- 1,000+ test cases, written and kept in Excel
- Automation
- RSpec, Capybara, PhantomJS
- API Testing
- Postman
- Pipelines
- CircleCI, smoke and regression
1,000+Manual Test Cases
800+Automated Tests
6Testers Led: 3 Automation, 3 Manual
The Result
What Was in Place by the End
- 800+ automated tests in CircleCI, on top of 1,000+ manual test cases.
- A QA team of six, led by our founder.
- Five recurring kinds of bugs caught, from broken onboarding to role permissions and file exports.
Overview
A Team of Six, One Platform
Our founder led QA on an HR web platform that companies use to onboard and manage their employees, at the head of a team of three automation testers and three manual testers. The work started with 1,000+ manual test cases and manual testing. Then came an automation framework in RSpec and Capybara, with PhantomJS as the headless browser, which grew to 800+ automated tests. CircleCI ran them as smoke and regression pipelines, and the platform's APIs were tested in Postman.
1,000+Manual Test CasesExcel · Manual Test Passes
800+Automated TestsRSpec · Capybara · PhantomJS
CircleCISmoke and Regression PipelinesAPIs Tested in Postman Alongside
The Problem
Moments That Matter to People
An HR platform handles moments that matter to both new hires and HR teams: onboarding, documents, who can see what and the reports HR pulls out. When onboarding breaks, a new hire's first day starts badly. When permissions break, people see data they should not, or cannot reach what they need.
What Was Tested
From Onboarding to Exports
- Onboarding: the flows a new employee goes through.
- Documents: uploading and opening attachments.
- Roles and Permissions: what each user role can see and do.
- Exports: the files HR teams download from the platform.
- APIs: the services behind the web app.
- Front-End Health: errors in the browser console.
How It Was Built
RSpec, Capybara and CircleCI
- A team of six: three automation testers and three manual testers, led by our founder.
- 1,000+ manual test cases written and kept in Excel, then run as manual test passes.
- An automation framework in RSpec and Capybara, with PhantomJS as the headless browser.
- 800+ automated test cases.
- CircleCI pipelines that run a smoke suite for quick checks and a regression suite for the wider set.
- API testing in Postman, alongside the UI tests.
What Testing Found
The Bugs That Came Up Most Often
Recurring · Documents
Attachments Not Loading
Uploaded documents failed to open.
Recurring · Permissions
Role Permissions Not Working
Users could see or do things outside their role, or were blocked from what their role allowed.
Recurring · Exports
File Exports Failing
Exports did not produce the files HR teams needed.
Recurring · Front End
Console Errors
JavaScript errors in the browser console, often the first sign of a broken page.
What Was Delivered
Handed Over
- A manual test case library of 1,000+ cases in Excel.
- 800+ automated tests in RSpec and Capybara.
- Smoke and regression pipelines in CircleCI.
- API testing in Postman for the platform's services.
- A QA team of six, led by our founder.
Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. On this HR platform, our founder's framework in RSpec and Capybara ran 800+ automated tests, with PhantomJS as the headless browser and CircleCI running the pipelines.
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