Stop Testing Late, Start Releasing Daily
At a glance
CLIENT
Mid-market investment content & community platform
SERVICE
- Quality Engineering, Test Automation, Performance & Reliability
INDUSTRY
- Digital Media & Fintech
The platform served 12+ million monthly sessions across web, iOS, and Android, yet shipped on a bi-weekly cadence because every cut triggered 8–10 days of regression, manual smoke on three storefronts, and unstable test data. Defect leakage into UAT hovered near 9%, p95 web load time spiked to 3.2s+ at market open, and mobile crash-free sessions stalled at 96.1%. The team needed a repeatable way to raise quality while increasing speed — without adding headcount or freezing releases.
LeanCoded rebuilt the delivery path around measurable quality gates and production-grade automation. Acting as an api development company, we formalized versioned contracts for internal and partner services and introduced governed releases via devops services. With api integration support (mock servers, consumer-driven contracts, partner sandboxes) and in-product guidance powered by a digital adoption platform, releases became routine. Targeted cloud cost optimization solutions kept non-prod spend predictable, while mobile app development services brought mobile quality to parity with web.
Design Coverage That Matters, Automate Where It Pays
We mapped journeys end-to-end (discover → read → discuss → subscribe), ranked risks by traffic and revenue, and moved checks to the right layers: contract at the edges, component for logic, workflow for cross-service paths, and a slim E2E for golden flows. APIs were locked behind versioned schemas owned by platform teams operating as an api development company; incompatible changes failed fast before they reached shared environments. This cut redundant UI scripts and reduced flaky alarms, improving signal-to-noise across suites.
Pipelines were standardized as devops services: immutable artifacts, environment parity, automated quality gates, and blue/green + canary strategies. We embedded a digital adoption platform into the developer portal so engineers saw step-by-step “how-to” directly in tools, reducing “how do I deploy/test X?” tickets and onboarding time. api integration support gave squads self-serve sandboxes and contract packs, unblocking changes without waiting for partner windows and keeping UAT free of integration surprises.
Stable Data, Stable Results
Deterministic test data sets (personas: free/trial/premium; content matrices: symbols, watchlists, earnings) removed variability; service virtualization covered third-party feeds and payment callbacks. With targeted cloud cost optimization solutions (right-sized runners, schedule-based performance rigs, log tiering), CI queue time fell by 41% while keeping 3× surge capacity for market-open spikes. On mobile, mobile app development services added crash-triage workflows and network-throttled tests, closing the quality gap with web.
Regression cut from weeks to days
Less leakage, fewer UAT surprises
Performance users can feel
Mobile at parity with web
Process that scales people, not toil
Outcomes That Compound Across Product, Growth, and Ops
By moving checks left and making quality visible in the pipeline, teams shipped smaller, safer changes. Editorial and growth experiments now land in days, not sprints; production incidents per release fell by 38%; premium trial-to-paid conversion rose by 7.1% thanks to faster loads and fewer mobile crashes. Platform teams continue to own contracts as an api development company, while devops services keep cadence high and predictable; the digital adoption platform sustains enablement as staff rotates; cloud cost optimization solutions hold spend flat as volume grows.
- Speed — Regression –52%; releases every 2–3 days
- Stability — UAT leakage 3.6%; incidents/release –38%
- Web Perf — p95 2.1s (–34%); SLOs hold at market open
- Mobile — Crash-free 98.2%; cold-start –28%
- Flow — CI queue –41%; fewer manual hand-offs
What’s Next: Smarter Tests, Cheaper Cycles
Next steps add model-driven test selection and synthetic traffic to target the highest-value checks each sprint. We’ll expand api integration support to additional data vendors, keep the developer portal current via the digital adoption platform, and iterate cloud cost optimization solutions (spot pools, data lifecycle) to preserve headroom without inflating run-rate. mobile app development services will extend parity features to iOS/Android releases on the same cadence.