Castor

February 2021

How we made fixes and automation for continuous releases for a multi-hospital environment

Castor SMS is a Study Management System. It captures and centralizes all of your organization’s research projects on a cloud-based study management system. It has three parts: tracking progress, controlling and collaborating, and security and accessibility. Castor’s main goal is to help the client stay on top of their research projects. Thousands of medical device, biotech and academic researchers around the world use Castor. The company is headquartered in Amsterdam. Castor’s platform has supported more than 4,000 commercial and academic studies that cover a broad range of disease areas including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rare diseases, and oncology.

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Frameworks:

Languages

ExtJs, JavaScript, Typescript, REST

Tools

Jira, Zephyr and Testrail, TestCafe and Siesta, Postman, Jenkins

Test types

Automated regression, API and functional testing, run in continuous integration on every install

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Project Overview

The client had continuous releases for multi-hospital environments. Due to the increase in the number of hospitals, there were a lot of cases where there were data-related errors. Data Issues were coming up due to a variety of setups for multi-hospital environments. These issues were due to the use of the application in confined environments. The client needed some fixes and automation for their entire process of testing in their continuous releases.

The Challenge

The founder of Castor found a major problem in medical research. Due to the unavailability of affordable compliant alternatives for tracking progress and collaborating, Castor came up with their own Study Management System.

Solutions

Solutions Astaqc delivered:

  • We Created a set of reusable high coverage tests that were made to run on all the installs.
  • The entire process above was automated so that the process can include continuous integrations.
  • A set of API tests were created so that the tests can cover all the functionality extensively.
  • The above process was created so that the result can be executed in a short span of time.

Project Result

Results delivered:

  • Earlier the number of hotfixes were around 5 and this was brought down to as low as 0.
  • The above was made possible from the first iteration itself.
  • By doing this most of the bugs got resolved in the functional cycle itself.
  • By doing such automation runs, the system keeps a check on the changes constantly and reports accordingly
  • The entire process was quite cost-effective and reduced the cost of fixing that Castor was giving.
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