About:

Founded: 2019

Industry: Virtual Event Platforms

Airmeet, established in 2019 in Bangalore, India, quickly became a leading name in the virtual event platform industry, achieving unicorn status within two years. The platform is designed to deliver a fully immersive virtual event experience, simulating real-life interactions through features like interactive polls, Q&A sessions, breakout rooms, and customizable virtual backgrounds. To date, Airmeet has facilitated over 150 million minutes of video airtime and served more than 120,000 event organizers worldwide.

Airmeet's Requirements:

• Develop a testing solution to manage frequent updates efficiently, without the overhead of continuous manual testing.

• Enhance integration testing speed and efficiency to improve system performance and readiness for releases.

• Overcome the limitations posed by outdated mocks that compromised test accuracy and trustworthiness.

Challenge:

As Airmeet expanded, the complexity of its virtual event platform required a more effective testing strategy. Heavy reliance on APIs and the fast pace of development made traditional manual testing methods impractical. The use of outdated mocks in testing further complicated the issue, as they often resulted in a significant mismatch between testing scenarios and actual operational conditions, leading to critical bugs in the live environment.

• Manual testing processes could not keep up with the platform’s scale and the rapid pace of development, leading to increased costs and delayed product releases.

• The use of outdated mocks in unit and integration tests led to unexpected bugs into production.

• Existing test suite required a lot of maintenance that moved away precious time from development.

Solution:

To streamline these challenges, Airmeet adopted HyperTest, an advanced integration testing tool that automated their testing processes effectively. HyperTest's capabilities were integrated swiftly into Airmeet's core services, offering double-digit code coverage across all major services and significantly less manual testing.

• HyperTest automated the generation and execution of test cases, drastically reducing the team's workload.

• It ensured that all changes underwent rigorous testing and received approval automatically before being moved to production, enhancing the quality and speed of releases.

• HyperTest's ability to mock out all the dependent services, third-party APIs and databases helped in eliminating the need to write and maintain mocks, making testing of integration scenarios reliable with consistent results.