LambdaTest builds HyperExecute, a secure, scalable testing platform that is 70% faster with Microsoft Azure

LambdaTest is a continuous quality testing cloud platform that helps developers and testers ship code faster. Over one million users across over 130 countries and leading enterprises rely on LambdaTest for their testing needs. Founded in 2017, LambdaTest is headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with over 300 employees working across India, USA, UK, Philippines and UAE.

The platform provides secure, scalable, and insightful test orchestration for customers integrated with customers’ DevOps (CI/CD) lifecycle. LambdaTest’s browser and app testing cloud can be used to perform both exploratory and automated testing across over 3000 different browsers, real devices, and operating systems. LambdaTest aims to enable millions of testers and developers to ship code in a quicker, more efficient manner and support individuals, enterprises, SMBs, small teams, and open-source projects to go-to-market faster.

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Need for a smart test orchestration platform to increase release velocity

As a customer-first, and a passionate team, LambdaTest is focused on creating an impact in the testing space and enabling developers and testers to achieve more with less. Traditional test execution platforms do not offer the required security and speed for customers to accelerate go-to-market and deliver new features fast. Moreover, monolithic architecture applications do not support scalability beyond a point. Hence, LambdaTest realized the need for an automated test platform that:-

Supported deployments mechanisms in line with customers’ security
Managed scalability
Overcame slow test execution and flakiness
Integrated with existing Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous
Development (CD) pipelines
Can be deployed on customers' cloud environment

Collaboration with Microsoft for a scalable test infrastructure

LambdaTest developed HyperExecute, a test orchestration platform, on Azure. It is a next-gen smart testing platform to help businesses run end-to-end automation tests at the fastest speed possible. They evaluated various platforms and selected Microsoft Azure as it satisfied therequirements of developing a plug-and-play test infrastructure. The ease and speed of deployment on the public cloud, private cloud, or an on-premises environment was another favorable aspect.

About the collaboration with Microsoft, Maneesh Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, LambdaTest says, “We empower enterprises with a test orchestration platform that provides operational insights to support faster and more informed decision making. Along with an agile cloud provider like Azure, HyperExecute is designed to continuously evolve and scale the test infrastructure for enterprises. Today, continuous test quality in DevOps is a key need for enterprises. LambdaTest and Microsoft Azure provide a secure and scalable solution in this evolving space.”
LambdaTest also used other products from the Microsoft ecosystem such as GitHub, Azure App Services and VS Code to offer a frictionless experience to developers across different workflows.

LambdaTest unleashes its full potential by moving to Azure

The test orchestration and execution platform offers a range of benefits -
Better performance and speed - Customers can execute tests up to 70 percent faster than any traditional cloud grid as it chalks out the most efficient test execution plan. It avoids the latency present in many traditional solutions by merging all components into a single test execution environment and with smart test orchestration and parallelization. It also offers integration with numerous CI/CD tools so that their customers expend less manual effort, reduce risk, and deliver faster.

Improved security - They offer customers a secure test execution environment with dedicated servers in the Azure cloud, encryption of log data at rest and in transit, backup in Azure Cloud and continuous auditing. With Azure’s Identity Access Management (IAM) they implement and manage user identity and access with granular permissions for protection against advanced threats across devices, data, and infrastructure.

Increased scalability - Using Azure App services, scaling up and scaling down microservices is quite efficient and can be done with zero downtime. With features for easy configuration and smart orchestration, it is a highly scalable platform that can more than keep up with project demands.

Robust integration – By integrating with products like Microsoft Teams, Azure Pipelines, GitHub, and Azure services, HyperExecute helps developers reduce time on testing without compromising on quality. It also allows customers to run and orchestrate test grids in the Azure cloud for any platform and language at blazing speeds.

Maynak Bhola,Co-Founder and Head of Product, LambdaTest says, “With Azure, we were able to unlock scalability, speed and security. Furthermore, Azure’s diversified support in multiple regions and multiple services helped ship the product faster.”

Looking ahead, LambdaTest plans to scale up existing infrastructure to be the go-to cloud test orchestration and execution platform for more customers across the world

“We empower enterprises with a test orchestration platform that provides operational insights to support faster and more informed decision making. Along with an agile cloud provider like Azure, HyperExecute is designed to continuously evolve and scale the test infrastructure for enterprises. Today, Continuous Test Quality in DevOps is a key need for enterprises. LambdaTest provides a secure and scalable solution in this evolving space.”

Maneesh Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, LambdaTest