TACHOfresh digitalization project improves software quality assurance

The company TACHOfresh – located in Wildau since 2008 – successfully participated in the BIG funding program of the Brandenburg Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Energy (MWAE)1). The program aims to strengthen the competitiveness and innovative power of small and medium-sized enterprises.

“The “BIG Digital Implementation” funding program was perfect for our planned digitalization of software quality assurance. We were optimally supported by the Investitionsbank des Landes Brandenburg during the application and review process. After just five months, we received the approval notice for our BIG project1) in summer 2021,” says Dr. Susanne Kirsch, Managing Director of TACHOfresh GmbH.

In the period October 2021 to November 2022, the TACHOfresh software quality assurance digitalization project was successfully converted from the actual to the target situation and the innovative test automation (TA) was implemented. A typical case for a test run for a new software feature at TACHOfresh usually includes 4 to 6 different system environments, 3 to 5 user profiles and 10 to 20 customer profiles, 12 language versions, as well as all internet browsers and operating systems currently used on the market. All development departments had to be involved so that the concrete detailed modules (JIRA cases) could be automatically picked up by the new test automation and integrated into the different test scenarios.

The project digitalization of software quality assurance was and is a central core functionality at TACHOfresh in order to be able to offer our customers full available of our software services related to web-based tachograph data management in the years to come,” explains Falko Schmalenberg, CTO at TACHOfresh. He points out that the implementation of the new automated test procedure has led to a considerable increase in efficiency and a significant reduction in manual processes.

1) https://www.wdb-brandenburg.de/Brandenburgischer-Innovationsgutschein-BIG-BIG-Digital.1038.0.html

TACHOfresh benefits from the innovation spirit in Wildau and attributes its growth to the advantages of the Dahme Spreekreis science region. “The 15-year close and trusting cooperation with the TH Wildau and with the dahme_innovation network and its managing director, Mr. Gerhard Janßen, ultimately gave the go-ahead for our digitalization project,” says Dr. Kirsch happily. “Without Mr. Janßen’s reference to the BIG program, we would probably have delayed this major and crucial digitalization project.”