Case Study: Global Fortune 200 Energy Company achieves 300% faster UI testing with SmartBear TestComplete

TestComplete Quickly Automates UI Testing Reduces Testing Time for 2,000 Test Cases Down to 2-3 Hours

A Global Fortune 200 renewable energy company that runs a mission‑critical energy trading and risk management application relied on manual UI testing and faced severe release delays: functional testing took about four weeks and regression across roughly 4,000 test cases took three months, preventing timely production deployment after a year of development.

The team adopted SmartBear TestComplete and TestExecute (integrated with SpiraTest and Jira) and scripted tests in Java, using distributed parallel execution to split workloads. As a result, they cut testing from months to hours—running 2,000 tests in 2–3 hours and reducing a full-suite run from 24 to 8 hours (300% efficiency gain)—enabled more frequent releases (from once a year to three times per week), lowered tool costs, and spurred broader adoption across the company.