Meet Springbuk

Springbuk is the industry leader in the health and analytics space for the self-insured market.  The Springbuk platform enables self-insured employers, brokers, and consultants to leverage data to reduce spending, improve patient outcomes, and simplify the complex healthcare landscape.

How to deliver features on time and ensure quality at the same time

Springbuk’s application ingests an enormous amount of data from the disparate healthcare ecosystem, and analyzes it to provide actionable opportunities for improvement in efficiency, quality, or cost.  Given the complexity, frequency, and size of the data, testing required attention to detail and precision.  Prior to QA Wolf, this work was the responsibility of in-house QA engineers and product engineers.  

With more than 25% of development time spent on manual testing, this model impacted Springbuk’s ability to deliver innovative new features to the market place.  During major releases, it was common for the entire development team to put their work on hold to complete a full regression on the entire application, section by section. 

With the time and cost involved in testing, the team had to focus its attention just on the newest features, which left the team exposed to application defects. 

Each release felt like we were constantly reinventing the wheel just to stay afloat.
—Mark Goudie, Director of Software Development

QA Wolf improved the velocity and quality of value-added features

25% more development time and full regressions on every PR

‍With QA Wolf managing their test suite and providing the run infrastructure to finish a QA cycle in minutes rather than hours or days, Springbuk has transitioned to a continuous delivery model with testing completed on every PR. 

We’re now able to do two to three times the number of releases per sprint, with tests running automatically on every pull request.
—Mark Goudie, Director of Software Development

Test automation reduced bottlenecks and allowed developers to catch issues early in the development process. This gave developers the tools to deliver higher-quality code while promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Each iteration builds on the last to create more reliable releases.

‍QA Wolf is an integral part of our development process, ensuring that each release is thoroughly vetted and stable.This means our team can confidently push updates without fearing unexpected issues in production.”
—Mark Goudie, Director of Software Development

Thorough automated testing took the guesswork out of release management

‍This testing played a crucial role during the modernization of the Springbuk data pipeline.  Automated testing capabilities, enabled Springbuk to incrementally shift to the new platform without impacting end-user experience or production stability.  

‍The regression suite allowed us to move parts of the app to the new database incrementally, catching issues before they became problems.
—Mark Goudie, Director of Software Development

The Springbuk team was also able to launch major features like Activate, an innovative marketplace for self-insured groups and brokers.  

‍Without QA Wolf, the Activate launch wouldn’t have been as fully featured—it would’ve been a much smaller, less impactful version.
—Mark Goudie, Director of Software Development