Case Study: a large North American bank cuts test execution from 2 weeks to 7 hours with Perfecto by Perforce

Large North American Bank cuts regression testing from 2 weeks to 7 hours with Perforce

The customer, a large North American bank, faced a significant challenge in its software development lifecycle. Its waterfall process and reliance on tools like HP UFT and Java Selenium resulted in high costs and low performance, with a regression suite of 2000 test cases taking two full weeks to execute. This led to a heavy dependence on manual testing. The bank turned to Perforce and its product Perfecto to help implement a hybrid/Agile process with continuous integration.

Perforce implemented its Perfecto Black Belt Program, which included code review and optimization to reduce test execution time by 75%. Through parallel execution, the bank slashed its automated regression test time from two weeks to just seven hours. The solution also integrated continuous integration via Jenkins and increased automated coverage to 70% per release. These results freed the QA team to focus on new features and allowed the bank to maintain an industry-leading digital strategy with high velocity and quality.