Case Study: Prestigious European Technical University cuts lunar rover development trial and error by 75% with Cprime and GitLab

Prestigious European Technical University cuts trial and error by 75% with Cprime

A prestigious European technical university, developing a semi-autonomous moon rover, faced a significant challenge in creating a modern and proactive testing process for its embedded systems. The narrow margins for error in space required a robust CI/CD pipeline, an area where the aerospace industry lagged behind modern cloud methodologies. The university partnered with Cprime for GitLab training and implementation to establish this new precedent and reduce risk.

Cprime implemented a GitLab-based CI/CD pipeline, advocating for a mono repo approach and introducing automation for quality assurance, build, testing, and dependency management. This solution, which included tools like the GitLab Workflow extension for Visual Studio, created a uniform development ecosystem. As a result, Cprime helped the engineering team eliminate 75% of the trial and error caused by inconsistent systems, directly translating into higher quality firmware and a drastically reduced margin for error.