Challenge

The platform supports a broad range of learning scenarios, from traditional online courses and instructor-led sessions to personalized learning paths, skills development, gamification, and detailed reporting.

As the product continued to grow, every new feature increased the number of possible user journeys that needed to be checked. Updates could affect course creation, learner progress, payments, external content providers, accessibility, or other connected parts of the platform.

The existing automated tests also required improvement. Some scenarios took too long to run, while unstable tests occasionally failed without indicating a real product issue. This made it more difficult for the team to quickly understand whether a failure represented an actual bug or simply an unreliable test.

The challenge was to expand automated coverage, improve the stability of existing tests, and provide the product team with dependable quality feedback across multiple environments.

Solution

We designed and implemented automated test suites covering the platform’s core functionality, including courses, learning content, learning paths, skills, instructor-led sessions, gamification, and reporting.

The coverage was extended to connected services and external tools, including online payments, third-party course libraries, learning integrations, and AI-powered features such as coaching, test generation, and content translation.

Accessibility was also an important part of the testing strategy. We created and maintained dedicated scenarios to verify that users could navigate major forms and workflows using a keyboard.

To improve performance, we modernized key parts of the existing test suite. Wherever appropriate, slower user-interface steps were replaced with more efficient background requests. This reduced execution time and made tests more stable across a large number of scenarios.

We also contributed to improving the continuous testing process across development, staging, and production environments. Automated results were reviewed daily to identify real product defects, investigate unstable scenarios, and keep the test suite accurate and dependable.

Result

The platform gained broader and more consistent automated coverage across its most important learning and administration workflows.

Modernizing the existing tests reduced execution time and improved stability, allowing the team to receive quality feedback faster. Continuous analysis and the removal of unreliable tests made the results easier to trust and helped distinguish genuine product issues from false failures.

As a result, the product team could detect problems earlier, make release decisions with greater confidence, and continue expanding the platform while maintaining a reliable experience for administrators, instructors, and learners.