Lithium

Lithium Technologies has been a leading provider of on-demand enterprise support communities that increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, improve the customer experience, and decrease customer support costs.

"At Lithium, we’ve built a crack Agile development team that can release well-tested updates to our enterprise community platform every two weeks and major new features every quarter. To build a maintainable product as we develop rapidly, we have embraced unit testing as a pillar of our development philosophy, and Agitar is a key technology for us. Not only has it helped us build more testable code, it provides visible metrics against which we can measure our progress every day."
– Phil Soffer, VP of Product Development, Lithium

Challenges

Create and implement a culture dedicated to unit testing at Lithium. Make unit testing a part of developers’ daily routine and expedite the creation of tests.
Develop and release software faster. Get on a release pulse in which developers are releasing significant functionality every quarter.
Use unit testing results as performance indicators for our agile teams, and as a management metrics at board meetings.

Solution

Increase speed of development and project quality, while mitigating risk by using AgitarOne.
Establish more test coverage and increase productivity in test generation by dedicating one person per team to integrating AgitarOne into development.
Integrate with Eclipse IDE and perform exploratory tests while developing or changing code.
Avoid long regression cycles at the end of each release by increasing level of test automation and visibility into software quality.