CoinMe reduced testing cycle time from 3 days to 2 hours
About CoinMe
Coinme is a rapidly growing series A fintech company helping customers buy and sell bitcoin with cash at more than 17,000 physical locations. The company offers an enterprise-grade API that helps crypto-enable legacy financial systems and a vertically integrated suite of consumer products that provide an easy and secure way to buy, sell, store, and manage digital currencies. Coinme started in 2014 and subsequently experienced a booming growth phase. Staying on top of market trends, releasing features fast, and delivering a bug-free experience are core to the company’s business strategy.
“Validating and signing off on new builds used to take us days. Sofy has removed the bottleneck of QA testing from our release cycle, and their regression testing capabilities have helped us release quality code. We have been able to automate most of our test scenarios in just one month, and we can now test our builds on hundreds of devices and releases ON-DEMAND. Being a startup, agility is extremely critical to our business, and Sofy has helped provide a platform which allows our company to be AGILE and at the same time, have engineering capabilities similar to mature companies.”
Hazim Macky
VP of Engineering, CoinMe
INDUSTRY
Fintech, Crypto
PLATFORM
Android, and iOS
SAVING TIME SINCE
March 2021
BUILDS TESTED
60+
FEATURES MOST USED
Device Lab, Manual Testing, No-code automation
Problem
Due to the fast-paced nature of the industry and the company’s growth stage, Coinme wanted to rapidly release updates to its mobile apps. Unfortunately, the company encountered a bottleneck during QA testing and this caused the team to take days for every release. Challenges faced by Coinme included:
Issues in validation and longer release times
The team operates from different locations, so they needed separate devices in those locations
The feedback loop was longer
A lot of manual testing needed to be done
Solution
To match the stability and scalability of the production systems of big tech companies, Coinme went to Sofy. The team integrated Sofy into their CI/CD setup and its DevOps cycle. In just a month, Sofy
helped Coinme to:
Receive a holistic view of the development cycle
Have real devices available and accessible from anywhere
Access a single platform to manage test data and test scenarios
Remove friction from reporting and project management by automating tasks
Perform a no-code test automation platform to scale tests and validate builds on demand without writing scripts.
Result
Sofy helped shrink Coinme’s testing cycle from three days all the way down to two hours. With Sofy, Coinme found issues before a build was even ready, significantly improving performance and code quality. The company was able to automate all test cases within a single month. Once the test cases were set up, the tests ran automatically on all selected devices every time the developers released a new build for QA.
90
Test Use Cases
3 days
Time to Automate Once
12
Scenarios Validated
11,000 hours
Total Time Saved