Case Study: IBM accelerates development velocity with Tugboat QA

IBM cuts PR testing from hours to minutes with Tugboat QA

The customer, IBM, faced a significant development bottleneck where teams had access to only a single testing server, slowing their QA process and development velocity to a crawl. This challenge was exacerbated when an influx of new developers created more contention for the limited resources. The vendor, Tugboat QA, provided its on-premise solution to automate deploy environments and address this issue.

Tugboat QA implemented a solution that created an automated, on-demand deploy environment for every pull request. This allowed multiple pull requests to be tested simultaneously and eliminated hours-long waits for environment resets. The result for IBM was a faster, more accurate development process that removed the single-server bottleneck. Tugboat QA also delivered huge cost savings, providing unlimited environments for the price of a single enterprise testing server.

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