The Client is a pioneer in the drone industry, marrying quality design with accessibility and constantly improving efficiency, safety and scalability in commercial drone operations. With end-to-end program management, user-friendly flight control and in-platform data analysis, the Client’s comprehensive software solution helps businesses save thousands of hazardous man-hours and create millions of dollars in operational benefits.
‘This Client sought a worthy testing partner who could conduct thorough ongoing testing of the drone application.’
Advanced drone mapper seeks managed test strategy
The Client’s application is an innovative drone-automation solution that can collect data and transform ground or aerial images into digital maps and 3D models. This Client sought a worthy testing partner who could conduct thorough ongoing testing of the drone application, including the capacity to test drones literally ‘on the fly’ meaning real-time testing of drones in flight.
‘Qualitest partnered with a Hyderabad-based technology institute to fly drones in a free zone to test the application.’
On the fly testing automates drone workflows
Test strategies were developed to include customer-specific requirements. Qualitest also partnered with a Hyderabad-based technology institute to fly drones in a free zone to test the application.
Some of the key features of the solution that Qualitest provided to the client included:
Automation set up using WebDriver IO – Chai Mocha framework.
Uploading ground control points (GCPs) with maps for increased accuracy.
Fly with GPS-aided manual control or automated grid and waypoint patterns.
Develop push web-based flight plans for the mobile flight app.
Create flight missions (agriculture, solar, mobile tower, etc.) using the web/mobile application.
Create flight plans with or without mission associations using KML/CSV/Grid/Waypoint.
Fly a drone using a simulator through the grid area created as per the flight plan.
Process the captured images (by marking GCP for more accuracy) through mapping and photogrammetry handled by Pix4D, which generated different output files like Orthomosaic, DSM, DTM, contours, etc.
View the output in various color palettes and creating annotations to test the outputs generated.
Gimbal and camera calibrations and test support for SDK helped the client create detailed tests.
Key benefits
Qualitest IoT experts defined a test strategy for the client that enabled product testing and subsequent successful launch to end users. As a result of Qualitest’s proven Quality Assurance expertise, the Client achieved:
80% improvement in test coverage and ability to fly drones in permitted zone.
65% of end-to-end tests automation across drone, mobile and web.
80% web-application test automation.
The Client gained the capabilities to:
Test drone applications by flying them manually and setting up automatic grids.
Perform gimbal and camera calibrations along with testing support for new SDK.
Develop WDIO / Chai-Mocha framework that runs on AWS pipeline. The automation scripts were also used by the developer team for unit testing.
Perform holistic regression test support before any major mobile or web releases.
