Client Overview 

Our client, a startup company, developed an innovative solution enabling users to create custom entities, define fields, design forms, and input data according to their specific configurations. This solution serves as a flexible alternative to traditional spreadsheet tools like Excel, suitable for businesses of any size.

The solution acts as a centralized repository for business data and workflows, supporting better decision-making, enhanced operational efficiency, and cost reduction.

The client required a comprehensive testing solution covering API and UI testing, test execution, and bug reporting for their release cycles.

Challenges 

Testing this configurable system presented several unique challenges:

• Entity Structure Flexibility: With the current API services and future plans for dynamic entity creation, the testing framework needed to accommodate both existing and planned functionality.
• Field Type Validation: Entities could contain various field types with different validation rules, requiring a testing approach that could adapt to these configurations without hard-coding expectations.
• Dynamic Form Testing: The system allowed custom form creation with various layouts and field arrangements, necessitating verification of both rendering and data capture functionality.
• Role-Based Permissions: Different user roles had varying access levels to entities and actions, requiring testing from multiple user perspectives.

Solution 

Our comprehensive testing strategy addressed these challenges through:

• Database-Direct Test Setup: We established database connections to efficiently create test data, establish complex scenarios, and reset environments between test runs.
• Adaptive Field Validation: We developed a framework that identified field types and their validation rules, generating appropriate test data and verification logic dynamically.
• Schema-Based Form Testing: By comparing JSON schemas and testing form rendering across different scenarios, we ensured form builder functionality remained intact across changes.
• Multi-Perspective Permission Testing: We implemented testing from both administrator and end-user perspectives to ensure role-based permissions were correctly defined and enforced.

This approach delivered a robust, adaptable testing framework that improved release quality and provided confidence in the system’s ability to handle diverse customer requirements.