Case Study: a Canadian utility standardizes QA and boosts test automation with Inflectra SpiraTest and Rapise

Canadian Utility in Nova Scotia standardizes QA across 100+ applications with Inflectra

A Canadian electric utility in Nova Scotia serving 500,000 customers faced a challenge in standardizing its quality assurance process across more than 100 applications. Relying heavily on external vendors, the company lacked a consistent testing approach, managing test cases and defects in Excel and Word documents with limited traceability. They needed to implement a standardized QA process and toolset to ensure reliable testing.

The utility selected Inflectra's SpiraTest for its feature fit and ease of use to create a central test repository and a single, required QA process. They later added Inflectra's Rapise for test automation on 25% of their applications. The solution ensured that no project is released without independent QA testing, provided reusable test assets, and integrated other tools like JMeter, creating a consistent and reliable release gate for all applications.