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Modernization, validated: quality engineering for legal software

How Adroitent's independent quality engineering team validated a four-decade-old legal management platform's modernization — rigorous testing, strategic automation and reusable assets that cut cycle time by 65%.

Software quality engineering and test automation for a legal management platform

The inflection pointA legacy platform under modernization

The customer — a prominent provider of financial and practice-management software empowering law firms for over four decades — was modernizing a functional but legacy legal management platform, and needed independent validation that it met every functional and performance benchmark.

  • Outdated user experience: the existing interface didn't align with modern UX standards, weakening satisfaction and market position
  • Inflexible architecture: the legacy system slowed new features and the third-party integrations users increasingly demanded
  • Scalability & performance: as data volumes surged, the platform struggled to deliver consistent performance
  • High operational costs: maintaining legacy infrastructure drove escalating, time-consuming operations
Modernization needs independent, rigorous validation.

The interventionEnd-to-end quality engineering

Adroitent provided end-to-end Quality Engineering Services, ensuring the new platform met all functional and performance benchmarks through rigorous testing methodology, strategic automation and a collaborative delivery approach.

Structured testing process

  • User-story grooming and detailed test-case development with reusable components
  • Comprehensive UI, functional and regression cycles with clear, consistent reporting

Strategic automation

  • Automated repetitive smoke and regression scenarios with TestComplete
  • Reduced testing cycle time between releases and improved coverage

Defect management

  • All bugs logged in Jira for clear visibility and traceability
  • Re-testing and regression to confirm every fix

Agile delivery

  • Scrum model for iterative development and continuous feedback
  • Full coverage: Functional, UI, Smoke, Regression and UAT

The game changer

Reusable test assets that cut cycle time by 65%

  • A repository of automated test scripts and documentation for easy maintenance
  • Reduced testing cycle time by 65% through automation
  • Significantly decreased defect leakage to production
  • Scalable, reusable QA assets aligned to every application module
TestCompleteJiraJavaScriptScrumRegressionUAT

By the numbers

Modernized platform

Enhanced quality

Cost efficiency

Reusable test assets

By the numbers

Modernized platform

Enhanced quality

Cost efficiency

Reusable test assets

The payoffModernized, higher-quality, cost-efficient

Modernized platform
Dedicated teamwork and a quality focus enabled the customer to modernize their legal management platform, aligned with the dynamic needs of today's law firms.
Enhanced quality
A high-quality, user-friendly modernized application met all functional requirements across every module, increasing customer satisfaction.
Cost efficiency
Automation and streamlined processes reduced testing cycles and operational costs, with faster onboarding and higher client-satisfaction scores.
Reusable test assets
The repository of automated scripts and documentation eased maintenance and scaling — cutting testing cycle time by 65% and reducing defect leakage to production.

The stack behind itTools & technology

TestCompleteJiraJavaScriptScrum / AgileFunctional & UI TestingRegression & SmokeUAT

This engagement was delivered as part of Adroitent's Software Engineering Services practice.

Good to knowFrequently asked questions

What is quality engineering (QE), and how does it differ from QA?
Quality engineering builds quality into the whole software lifecycle — through automation, continuous testing and process improvement — rather than only checking for defects at the end. Traditional QA focuses on finding bugs; QE prevents them and makes quality an engineered, shared outcome.
What is test automation and when should you use it?
Test automation uses tools to run tests automatically instead of manually. It suits repetitive, stable, high-value scenarios like smoke and regression suites, where it speeds up release cycles, improves coverage and consistency, and frees testers for exploratory testing.
What is regression testing?
Regression testing re-runs existing tests after code changes to confirm new work hasn't broken previously working functionality. Automating regression suites lets teams release faster and more safely, catching unintended side effects before they reach production.
Why use an independent QA team for a modernization project?
An independent QA team validates a modernization objectively, without bias toward the development choices. It gives impartial coverage of functional, performance and user-acceptance criteria, reducing the risk that defects or regressions slip through during a major platform change.
How does test automation reduce costs and cycle time?
By automating repetitive tests, teams run them faster and more often with less manual effort, shortening release cycles and catching defects earlier — when they're cheaper to fix. Reusable test assets further cut maintenance effort and reduce defect leakage to production.

Ship modernization with confidence.

Independent quality engineering that validates every release, at scale.

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