Customer Story · Software Engineering
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%.
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- Outdated user experience: the existing interface didn't align with modern UX standards, weakening satisfaction and market position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
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
This engagement was delivered as part of Adroitent's Software Engineering Services practice.
Good to knowFrequently asked questions
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Ship modernization with confidence.
Independent quality engineering that validates every release, at scale.