Customer Success Story

Interesting Dilemma, Critical Solution

Lufthansa Cargo AG The purpose of Lufthansa Cargo AG’s SDB Lufthansa Cargo AG ordered the serves more than 500 destinations world- project was to provide consistent shipment development of SDB from Lufthansa data as an infrastructure for each phase of its Systems. However, functional and load wide with passenger and cargo aircraft shipping process. Consistent shipment data testing is performed at Lufthansa Cargo as well as trucking services. Lufthansa is is a prerequisite for Lufthansa Cargo AG to AG with a core team of six business one of the leaders in the international air efficiently and effectively plan and fulfill the analysts and technical architects, headed cargo industry, and prides itself on high transport of shipments. Without it, much is at by Project Manager, Michael Herrmann. stake. quality service. Herrmann determined that he had an In instances of irregularities caused by interesting dilemma: a need to develop inconsistent shipment data, they would central, stable, and optimal-performance experience additional costs due to extra services for different applications without handling efforts, additional work to correct affecting the various front ends that THE CHALLENGE accounting information, revenue loss, and were already in place or currently under poor feedback from customers. construction. Lufthansa owns and operates a fleet of 19

MD-11F aircrafts, and charters other freight- With such critical factors in mind, Lufthansa needed to be performed Cargo AG determined that a well-tested API on services that were independent of any carrying planes. To continue its leadership was the best solution for its central shipment front ends, along with their related test in high quality air cargo services, Lufthansa database. Lufthansa Cargo AG’s goals with environments. The solution? API testing the SDB project included improving shipment with SOAtest. decided to implement an API for its central planning, loading processes, handling and Shipment Database (SDB) accounting, and, most importantly, customer satisfaction and revenue gain.

THE SOLUTION

Parasoft worked with Lufthansa Cargo AG to deliver a solution with Parasoft SOAtest.

The solution has since been recognized as a critical success factor in the implementation of Lufthansa’s Shipment Database project. The [Lufthansa Cargo AG] SDB project team reduced efforts by at least 20% with Parasoft. Perfecting Up and Running Quickly

Parasoft provided exactly what the SDB Cargo AG. “The SDB project team reduced production now is less than 0.2%. Of that 0.2%, project team was looking for — including regression testing efforts by at least 20% by we know the issues and we know them before the ability to create test cases automatically. using Parasoft versus the efforts that would we go into production.” What’s more, the SDB project team found the have been put forth if we had performed solution easy to understand and got up to regression testing manually,” Herrmann Improved Regression Testing through speed quickly — within just two to three days. reported. Automation

Herrmann stated: Not only did the SDB project team save time, Herrmann stated, “From a project perspective, they also achieved higher quality results. this was a big success for us. It helped me “We received very good consulting achieve my targets. The biggest advantage for and so the set up of the complete Commenting on the Parasoft solution, me is the efficiency of the test process now in environment was easy for us — Herrmann said, “We had excellent coverage operation. I was able to hand over a complete very helpful. And, the training was with test cases. The quality was very good set of test cases to the operations organization excellent, so it was easy for the team as we tested the stability of the services where we used our ’ten minutes regression to understand and work with the with the load tester, which was a core part test.’ Ten minute regression testing would not solution.” of our test process.” be possible without this solution.”

The importance of regression testing “Since we had visibility into all of the issues in preventing new code from breaking in advance, the beginning of production existing functionality is critical at Lufthansa was smooth. The problem rate we see in

The [Lufthansa Cargo AG] SDB project is now completed and Parasoft’s solution was a critical success factor for the overall project. The solution enabled me to stick to my original plan and budget. Now, after seeing the excellent results of the project, I strongly believe that it would not have been possible to accomplish this level of high quality without Parasoft.

- Michael Herrmann, Project Manager

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