Overseas Flights Enabled for Major Airline

We started with a team of four quality assurance (QA) engineers and eight developers, bringing quality into focus from day one. The client had just brought on a new Director of Quality Management and wanted our help evolving that team. They wanted to incorporate shift-left testing, an approach where testing is performed earlier in the lifecycle and they needed us to help them take their current quality management office into the development cycle. Having QA engineers on an engagement allows our clients to have a critical perspective during the design and architecture phases and avoid many of the defect-prone scenarios that may have otherwise not been caught until testing.

This project also needed to be very responsive. With the amount of data coming in that could affect the aircraft’s ability to meet FAA and maintenance standards, the data had to be processed quickly and accurately. To achieve this goal, an AKKA stream processing architecture approach was introduced to the client. The processing flow was not completely designed and had to be modified as the project was being implemented. Since the flows reacted to the data as it was coming into the stream, multiple testing scenarios had to be set up to exercise all of the potential flows and validate the results were accurate.