Case Study
A Digital Onboarding Journey: Customer Onboarding Made Easy
Business Challenge
- Inability to respond to the increasing business demands for new features and functionality
- Long delays in making minor development changes or additions to existing production applications
- Regimented quarterly release cycles due to lengthy test and regression cycles
- Inability to innovate at pace
Solution Overview
ACD utilizes Appian’s BPM platform to achieve the Automated Build, Automated Test and Automated Deployment of an application. It provides a single view of the Release Orchestration process across various environments i.e. Development, System Integration Test, System Acceptance Test, User Acceptance Test and Production. ACD considers a Release as a ‘Process’ within Appian and tracks it end-to-end, enforcing best practices on the following lines:
- Pre-Deployment Code quality checks in Development including ability to upload validation scripts
- Leverage Appian’s Batch Testing modules to validate the build in Development, prior to deployment
- Automatic creation of the build within Development for deployment
- Automated Deployment of the build to upstream environments using tools like IBM uDeploy, Jenkins and CA‘s Release Automation
- Cross-check deployment by comparing validation rules and automated testing results across environments
- Automated Smoke and Functional Testing of the build in higher environments using tools like Selenium and FitNesse
- Generation of release notes and other build artefacts, related to the release
Solution Benefits
- Deploys applications with lower risks and fewer failures
- Provides a 360° view of all release processes, deployments and build levels across multiple environments
- Performs automated smoke testing before and after deployments
- Automates quality checks before and after deployment for each build
- Performs full regression tests as required in each environment
- Sends real time notifications and alerts of the deployment statuses
- Uses out of the box connectors to integrate with commonly used test automation tools like Selenium and FitNesse
