Case Study: BoomTown achieves drastically reduced test times and higher-quality real estate software with Sauce Labs

Boom Town Relies on Sauce Labs to Save Testing Time and Deliver High-Quality Real Estate Software

BoomTown is a fast-growing real estate sales and marketing platform that provides listings, CRM, and analytics to brokers and home buyers. Its nine-person QA team relied on slow, manual testing and wanted to automate repetitive tests without the cost and maintenance burden of an in-house automation lab.

In late 2014 BoomTown adopted Sauce Labs with Selenium to run 100 nightly tests across multiple browsers and implemented eight-way parallelization; this cut its longest CRM back-end run from more than 90 minutes to 13 minutes. The team also uses Sauce Labs’ dashboard and video playback to speed troubleshooting, avoid hiring extra QA staff or building internal infrastructure, and plans to expand to mobile testing with Appium.

BoomTown

Joey Gryder

Senior Software Engineer in Test