Case Study: Siemens achieves 375% faster test execution and 38% productivity gain with Cypress

How Siemens Software Hub sped up their test execution by 375% with Cypress

Siemens’ SW Hub Cloud team, responsible for the Building Operator SaaS for smart building monitoring, was struggling with a highly complex stack (Angular front end, Express API, hardware, microservices on Red Hat OpenShift and AWS lambdas) and hundreds of daily tests. Tests were slow, flaky and produced many false negatives, so Siemens adopted Cypress (Test Runner and Dashboard) to bring more reliable, maintainable testing to their pipeline.

Using Cypress to implement advanced UI and API tests, community-created plugins, and the Dashboard, Siemens replaced their legacy suite and made failures easy to diagnose. The Cypress-led solution cut test code by 49%, increased productivity by 38%, sped up test execution by 375% (saving about 18 minutes per run), and saved over 290 person-hours per quarter.

Siemens

Murat Ozcan

Test Lead