Quality assurance for a Japanese real estate platform.

Our client, Open Room Inc., developed a platform for the real estate market that radically streamlined operations for agents and buyers. unicrew delivered the Quality Assurance service for the company’s product, Forest, a sharing platform where real estate agents manage their offers and buyers can easily find the assets they want and negotiate with agents.

The application offers users a range of functions: uploading a property and adding details such as location, price, and other information, adding items to favorites, and chatting between real estate agents and buyers. A deal-management function also lets users make offers and close deals quickly.

As the client improved the application and added features, it needed a structured QA process to support that work.

Any software development project has to follow the Software Testing Life Cycle (STLC) to maintain quality standards and promote customer satisfaction. Neglecting this process can lead to unexpected issues and prolonged development cycles, which is detrimental to both the development team and stakeholders.

The client did the development work in-house, and engaged unicrew as an independent Quality Assurance service provider to get an impartial, expert analysis of the QA roadmap from outside that team.

unicrew’s QA service covered the following:

• Establishing a manageable QA workflow
• Creating the Test Cases System
• Implementing QA Automation
• Extending, updating, and maintaining the QA automation process
• Developing the Testing Roadmap

• QA workflow: we set up the proper workflow to streamline bug detection and reporting.

• Test Cases System: the objective is to build a tailored set of test cases to support automation.

• QA Automation: using the Test Cases System, the client can easily automate their QA processes.

• Testing Roadmap: it outlines the holistic system of tests to run given the app’s features.

A defined QA workflow makes bug reporting and resolution easier to manage. Every QA workflow starts from a triggering event (for example, a scheduled test iteration or an automated script run) and includes a defined set of actions to identify, report, and fix the bugs. Following agile methodology, each task is prioritized and assigned to an owner. This approach ensures transparency and manageability, accelerating development and minimizing bugs.

The Test Cases System emerged as a critical component of the implemented QA procedures. Since the client’s primary objective was QA automation, the Test Cases became essential, as they outline the actions needed to create automated tests. To complete it, unicrew’s QA experts used the automated testing framework TestCafe.

TestCafe is a popular automated testing framework that lets developers write reliable and stable tests in JavaScript or TypeScript. It is known for ease of use and flexibility, which makes it a popular choice among software testing professionals. With TestCafe, QA teams can create and run tests for web applications across multiple browsers and platforms. It also provides features that let testers simulate user actions, automate regression tests, and generate reports.

To make a QA system sustainable, a product team has to develop and follow a Testing Roadmap. A correctly implemented roadmap ensures a long-term execution plan that streamlines tasks for QA engineers and makes development more predictable. A professional Testing Roadmap not only defines the scope for testing but also aggregates industry quality standards and best practices.