Case Study: Lectra achieves accelerated release cadence and halved stabilization time with Synopsys Coverity Test Advisor QA

Lectra - Customer Case Study

Lectra, a France‑founded global leader in integrated software and CAD/CAM solutions for the textile and fashion industries, needed to accelerate delivery of its flagship Lectra Fashion PLM. Large volumes of manual and automated tests were run repeatedly with little visibility into which changes required retesting, forcing a three‑month stabilization phase per release and slowing releases to about once a year.

By adopting Coverity Test Advisor QA and its Test Coverage Intelligence approach—integrated into Lectra’s existing tools—Lectra targeted only tests impacted by code changes, enabling faster, more focused validation. The result: stabilization time was cut from 3 months to 1.5 months, QA shifted to higher‑value end‑to‑end testing, the development team scaled without adding testers, and Lectra moved to major releases every six months with stronger confidence and clear ROI.

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