Accelerating Innovation: Quality Assurance for MuleSoft Migration Success

Robust test artifacts helped in Seamless migration from MuleSoft 3 to MuleSoft 4

Organization

XTIVIA’s client is a leading car rental company that operates in more than 10,800 corporate and licensee locations throughout 145 countries in North America, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Australia, Africa, the Middle East, and New Zealand. The company is the largest worldwide airport general-use car rental company with more than 1,700 airport locations in the U.S. and more than 1,300 airport locations internationally. In addition to car rental, the company also owns a vehicle leasing and fleet management company.

Challenge

The client had undergone an organizational restructuring and wanted to adopt a more agile approach to business development. Running applications on an older version of MuleSoft had limited the IT team’s ability to meet evolving business demands. XTIVIA helped the organization test the MuleSoft application migration from Mule 3 to Mule 4, enabling them to unlock the new platform offerings and deliver business change faster. A few of the challenges included:

• Validate all business-critical scenarios on upgraded systems to ensure seamless functionality
• Execute Regression Testing to verify enhanced functionalities and new capabilities in the latest version
• Complete all required testing processes, aligning with project milestones for timely delivery
• Conduct knowledge-sharing sessions to transfer insights to the testing team, ensuring continuity with new testers
• Retest fixes and follow up to ensure logical issue resolution and closure for a smooth upgrade experience

Solution

The testing team crafted a high-impact test artifact, ensuring an on-schedule, defect-free MuleSoft upgrade.

Key achievements include:

• Led strategic brainstorming and knowledge transition sessions to align the team on requirements
• Defined the test scope by identifying the ideal test scripts for execution
• Enhanced planning of the Test Coverage, Requirements Definition, and Test efforts
• Prioritized test scripts and utilized accurate data sets for reliable testing outcomes
• Secured continuous access to QA systems throughout all testing phases to ensure uninterrupted workflows
• Enabled proactive defect detection, flagging issues early to minimize impact and expedite resolution
• Conducted regular defect triage sessions to prioritize and address critical issues efficiently
• Maintained continuous progress tracking with transparent communication to keep stakeholders informed

BUSINESS RESULT

With the advanced test artifact developed by the XTIVIA team, the MuleSoft 4 upgrade went live on schedule, and flawlessly, with zero critical incidents. This seamless transition empowered the client to leverage the platform’s new capabilities, driving business growth with heightened agility and efficiency. The XTIVIA Quality Assurance team consistently delivered this migration, upholding its commitment to excellence and superior quality standards.

KEYWORDS

MuleSoft, JSON, XML, COBOL Copybook, Azure, AWS, Bluemix, B2B, Secured Microservices, Splunk

SOFTWARE

Mule 3.8, Mule 4.3, CloudHub, AnyPoint Studio, Maven, GitHub, AWS, AnyPoint MQ, JMS

HARDWARE/PLATFORM

CloudHub, AWS, Azure, Salesforce, IBM Bluemi

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