iQuipsys Positron Testing

During the MVP development of Positron, the iQuipsys team faced constant pressure to deliver quickly, often cutting corners to meet tight deadlines. One of the key areas that suffered was automated testing, which received insufficient attention. The team implemented only fragmentary unit testing, leaving significant gaps in quality assurance. As a result, the product had to rely on manual testing, which proved to be inadequate. Alpha-users reported numerous defects, many of which either went unnoticed or reoccurred repeatedly due to the lack of a comprehensive testing framework.

As development progressed, iQuipsys leadership realized that functional testing was not their only concern. Positron was designed as a SaaS product with a multi-tenant architecture capable of supporting hundreds of client organizations. Each organization could have tens of concurrent users, while hundreds of personnel and equipment units sent updates every few seconds. Additionally, the system needed to store up to five years of historical data, resulting in the need to process thousands of concurrent connections, handle thousands of requests per second, and manage millions of data points in its database.

This posed a significant challenge for the iQuipsys team, as non-functional testing — particularly load, performance, and scalability testing — was almost entirely missing from their process. Recognizing the critical need to address these challenges, the iQuipsys team turned to Enterprise Innovation Consulting (EIC) and requested the Better Testing program to accelerate their test development process, ensuring both functional and non-functional testing could be comprehensively covered in the shortest time possible.