Inflectra customer case study
Case Study · Defense

Major Defense Contractor Revolutionizes Testing Productivity with SpiraTest from Inflectra

The customer needed centralized requirements and testing, real-time traceability, Agile support, and automation for complex embedded mission systems.

Major Defense ContractorCustomer
DefenseIndustry
99%Test-Time Reduction
3 hoursFrom 3 months
The challenge

Manual mission-system testing was too slow and disconnected.

The route-planning software was primarily tested manually, with ad-hoc automation and uncoordinated processes. Requirements and test cases were tracked in Excel and Word.

  1. 1
    Centralize requirements and test cases
    Replace manual Office-based tracking with an integrated requirements and test management system.
  2. 2
    Automate route-planning tests
    Integrate automated testing directly into the new test management environment.
  3. 3
    Support Agile, risk, and CI workflows
    Connect Agile/Scrum, requirements, risk, change, automation, Jenkins, and BitBucket.
The Inflectra solution

Integrated traceability and automation down to the test-step level.

SpiraTest provided integrated requirements and test case management with traceability down to the test-step level. RemoteLaunch orchestrated existing TestComplete scripts and custom plugins that connected to route-map rendering code and legacy C++ code inside MatLab. The customer later upgraded to SpiraPlan for Agile planning and risk management.

Results and benefits

A dramatic reduction in test time with broader organizational reuse.

99%

Faster testing cycle

The case study reports that testing all user stories in a release fell from three months to three hours.

Real-time

Requirements visibility

Teams gained visibility into how well requirements were tested and could generate documentation from authoritative system data.

Reusable

Automation model

The approach became a template for other programs, teams, and the wider defense community.

Customer perspective
It blew the doors off what we can do. What used to take three months manually now takes only three hours!
Software Development Lead
It was an epiphany.
Customer stakeholder response to the new automation capability

Centralize traceability and automate complex system testing.

Talk with Inflectra about SpiraTest, SpiraPlan, and RemoteLaunch for requirements, testing, and automation.

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