Quick Starts

Online Ticket Sales and Distribution Company

Technology Service: FoneMonkey Quick Start Engagement

Gorilla logic was contacted by the QA Director for this established online ticket sales and distribution company to help integrate FoneMonkey with their iPhone and iPad applications. Gorilla logic worked diligently to assist with the following topics that were set by the client’s QA team: test organization, consistent results across machines, modular reusable methods, and issues running in headless mode. Gorilla Logic was successful in resolving each of these issues along with additional requests made by the client. By having a personal forum, the client was able to log issues and requests to a dedicated FoneMonkey expert who responded within 48 hours.

ROI: “FoneMonkey appeared to be the most reputable and accessible (it's free!). When we ran into limitations of the tool, we were glad there was the option for support. Given the pricing and the coordination involved for both parties, this is not an inexpensive venture. However, ten hours of support later, we have both an iPhone and iPad application continuously building and running FM Automation tests. This result will easily pay for itself in the number of UI bugs FoneMonkey will catch without my 'monkeying' about!”- Michelle Lai, QA Director

Online Digital Photo Company

Technology Service: FlexMonkey Quick Start Engagement

Gorilla Logic engaged with this leading on-line photo sharing website to assist their development and quality assurance teams in gaining an in-depth knowledge and productivity with FlexMonkey, one of todays leading open source tools with over 14,000 users. By providing 10 days of on-site implementation consulting services for FlexMonkey, the engagement resulted in customizations of the tool to fit their business needs, continuous integration, and software development. By instrumenting the application’s code so that it could become “automation ready”, and integrating the testing framework into the build, Gorilla Logic was able to ensure that FlexMonkey worked seamlessly with the client’s application. A dedicated FlexMonkey expert trained and supported the company’s internal QA and development team, allowing them to address all of their testing concerns and challenges.
ROI: The Gorilla Logic FlexMonkey expert assisted the development and QA team in writing their top ten most difficult test cases. This was a start to replacing a suite of 2500 manual test scripts that were required for every release. These 2500 tests had been off-shored in order to save money. Because manual testing could not be completely replaced by automated testing, it is safe to say that FlexMonkey replaced about half of the 2500 tests. With 25 offshore testers working to complete 100 tests per day, making less than $7 per hour working 20 hours a week, (rather than 40 hours because we are cutting their time in half) each regression cycle could save this client $3500. If the releases are routinely done once a month, this would save the client $42k per year. With FlexMonkey automation efforts, we save clients not only thousands of dollars, but we also save them Time To Market. When tests are automated, developers will have the ability to run them in minutes and gain instant feedback about the quality of their code, and can also proceed with the fearlessness to refactor without unintended side effects.

Worldwide Leader In Unified Communication and Collaboration

Technology Service: FlexMonkey Quick Start Engagement

Gorilla Logic engaged with this high definition telepresence, video and voice company to assist their development and quality assurance teams in gaining an in depth knowledge and productivity with FlexMonkey, a functional testing tool. By providing 10 days of on-site implementation consulting services for FlexMonkey, the engagement resulted in customizations to the tool to fit their business needs, continuous integration, and test suites. Gorilla Logic was able to ensure that FlexMonkey worked seamlessly with the customer’s unique Flex application. A dedicated FlexMonkey expert trained and supported the company’s internal QA and development team, allowing them to address their unique testing concerns and challenges.
ROI: The Quick Start engagement increased productivity, established a Continuous Integration environment, enhanced the quality of the code being produced, and reduced time spent on manual testing. The client said they received efficiency and monetary ROI’s, but had the unexpected outcome of the QA and development teams beginning to work more collaboratively. Employees felt their efforts were more valuable because they were not spending so much time doing manual testing.

Colorado’s Largest Workers Compensation Coverage Company

Technology Service: 2-Week FlexMonkey Quick Start Engagement

Gorilla Logic engaged with this peak performing Company in Workers Compensation plans to assist their development and quality assurance teams in gaining knowledge and full productivity with FlexMonkey. By providing 10 on-site days of implementation services, Gorilla Logic implemented customizations, established a continuous integration environment, and provided software consulting. Gorilla Logic was able to ensure that FlexMonkey worked seamlessly with the customer’s unique Flex application. A dedicated FlexMonkey expert trained and supported this growing company, allowing them to address all of their testing concerns and issues. This 2-week engagement reduced time, cost of resources, and improved the quality of code for a significant ROI.

Leading Enterprise CRM Solution

Technology Service: Annual FlexMonkey Support Contract

Gorilla Logic engaged with this client in 2010 and continues to be engaged today. Gorilla Logic created an open source functional testing tool, FlexMonkey, that launched in 2009. Now on it’s 5th release, this free tool is being heavily used by some of the biggest companies in the world. Along with our tool, Gorilla Logic is committed to supporting the open source eco-system through regular enhanced releases as well as a forum for community support. Some companies are using the tool so heavily, they needed additional, customized support beyond a standard Quick Start engagement (two weeks) which is what this premier CRM provided needed.

The annual support package includes 5 (on-location) days of implementation services for FlexMonkey, development of requested customizations, and over ten hours a month of dedicated FlexMonkey support. With this unique approach, Gorilla Logic is able to ensure that FlexMonkey works seamlessly with the customer’s unique Flex application and helps prepare the application for future automation testing. In addition, Gorilla Logic provided this Fortune 500 Company with a personal forum for the client to log bugs or send questions about the tool. The dedicated forum enables our team to provide timely solutions and responses with an SLA of a 48-hour response time.

ROI: This year long engagement reduces time and cost of client resources. By providing an “on-call” dedicated FlexMonkey expert for one year, the client was able to request numerous customizations to the tool and receive expert consulting advice and services in relation to FlexMonkey on their specific application. In addition, the FlexMonkey expert was able to mentor and train their team to ensure the future success of their application.