Case Study: Online e-Publishing Company Reduces Release Time by 75% with QASource Test Automation

e-Publishing Company Reduces Release Time by 75% with Test Automation

Online e-Publishing Company, a provider of premium digital content to libraries, organizations, and healthcare professionals, faced long, resource-heavy release cycles despite a large in-house team (100+ developers, 53 functional QA, 10 automation engineers). Their 8-week release process consumed roughly 40,000 hours and required 20+ QA engineers full time, with no automation tracking, many false positives, and no test data generation — so they engaged QASource for test automation, team extension, and process refinement.

QASource ramped up a 30-engineer test automation team in four weeks, split into five focused squads, and built a robust automation framework, libraries, and nightly regression analysis to eliminate false positives and log bugs. As a result of QASource’s work, 75% of regression tests were automated, release effort was cut by 75% (from ~40,000 hours), automation coverage rose to 75%, manual engineer count fell by 76%, and the six‑month fixed‑cost engagement was delivered on time and on budget with documentation and an automation backlog centralized in a wiki.