Client overview
The Client is a pioneer in the drone industry, marrying quality design with accessibility and constantly improving efficiency, safety and scalability in commercial drone operations. With end-to-end program management, user-friendly flight control and in-platform data analysis, the Client’s comprehensive software solution helps businesses save thousands of hazardous man-hours and create millions of dollars in operational benefits.
‘This Client sought a worthy testing partner who could conduct thorough ongoing testing of the drone application.’
Advanced drone mapper seeks managed test strategy
The Client’s application is an innovative drone-automation solution that can collect data and transform ground or aerial images into digital maps and 3D models. This Client sought a worthy testing partner who could conduct thorough ongoing testing of the drone application, including the capacity to test drones literally ‘on the fly’ meaning real-time testing of drones in flight.
‘Qualitest partnered with a Hyderabad-based technology institute to fly drones in a free zone to test the application.’
On the fly testing automates drone workflows
Test strategies were developed to include customer-specific requirements. Qualitest also partnered with a Hyderabad-based technology institute to fly drones in a free zone to test the application.
Some of the key features of the solution that Qualitest provided to the client included:
- Automation set up using WebDriver IO – Chai Mocha framework.
- Uploading ground control points (GCPs) with maps for increased accuracy.
- Fly with GPS-aided manual control or automated grid and waypoint patterns.
- Develop push web-based flight plans for the mobile flight app.
- Create flight missions (agriculture, solar, mobile tower, etc.) using the web/mobile application.
- Create flight plans with or without mission associations using KML/CSV/Grid/Waypoint.
- Fly a drone using a simulator through the grid area created as per the flight plan.
- Process the captured images (by marking GCP for more accuracy) through mapping and photogrammetry handled by Pix4D, which generated different output files like Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM, contours, etc.
- View the output in various color palettes and creating annotations to test the outputs generated.
- Gimbal and camera calibrations and test support for SDK helped the client create detailed tests.
Key benefits
Qualitest IoT experts defined a test strategy for the client that enabled product testing and subsequent successful launch to end users. As a result of Qualitest’s proven Quality Assurance expertise, the Client achieved:
- 80% improvement in test coverage and ability to fly drones in permitted zone.
- 65% of end-to-end tests automation across drone, mobile and web.
- 80% web-application test automation.
The Client gained the capabilities to:
- Test drone applications by flying them manually and setting up automatic grids.
- Perform gimbal and camera calibrations along with testing support for new SDK.
- Develop WDIO / Chai-Mocha framework that runs on AWS pipeline. The automation scripts were also used by the developer team for unit testing.
- Perform holistic regression test support before any major mobile or web releases.
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