Perfecto Scalability

Roland Castelino - PeerSpot reviewer
QA Lead at BMO Financial

Perfecto’s device lab has helped us to scale our testing operations, which has improved our organization in multiple ways. Instead of hosting our internal lab, Perfecto allows us to have a one-stop execution model where all teams plug into Perfecto and execute, and the reporting is available for everybody to see. Also, if we want to scale, we can always either acquire more licenses or cradles, then add more devices. As technology changes, or as devices change over the years, we can change them by upgrading our devices or upgrading the software. Maintaining them is not in-house. It is easy for us to contact the Perfecto help desk and ask them, "Hey, can you change a particular setting on that particular device?" or, "Can we upgrade this to a different Android version?", if we cannot do it remotely.

From a resourcing or technology point of view, it is very easy to scale. However, from a licensing point of view, scaling might be a challenge because it is expensive, but other than that, it is technically easy to scale. Licensing, while not a roadblock, is a challenge for the majority of organizations when scaling.

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Glenford John - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager, Device Integration at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is good. We have been with Perfecto for so long that we have seen different operating systems come and go. When Apple changed and upgraded the operating system and changed a lot of the APIs and drivers, they always found a way, even with Android, to get the solution up and running before launch. They have a really strong partnership with the Android community and the iOS community.

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AG
Project Manager at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It covers device availability. Every time there are new devices in the market, they have it in their cloud. It depends on us if we want to purchase them. 

We're planning to increase the number of devices we have because there are always new devices on the market. We'll have to take a look at the devices that we may not need and acquire new ones, to make sure we test all the latest devices. We want to make sure that no users are left out and that our projects are up to date with the new devices.

We have 500 users signed up in Perfecto, including developers, and I'm sure they're using every different feature available in the solution. It's used by about 20 different teams. It's used for UA testing and regression testing. It's used for every level of testing in our environment.

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Bharat Malik - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Automation Engineer at RBC

The scalability is good. We have been able to scale up with the introduction of new devices, and there are a lot of them in total.

I don't expect that our usage is going to increase.

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MB
Manager and Platform Lead, Canadian Digital Banking at BMO

The scalability of the solution is outstanding. I don't have any concerns with the scalability. As long as we have more licenses, we can scale. We only have 50 licenses at the bank, so sometimes things get pretty much filled up, although not very often. We may actually request more licenses, but we need to discuss that internally first.

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Kristina Bogojevska - PeerSpot reviewer
Product Manager at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

We have an end-to-end (E2E) environment that we deploy for testing in Perfecto. Currently, it just supports our product team, which has about 10 people. In the Credit organization or department, we're the only mobile team. The web team, with about 50 people, is evaluating using Perfecto, but currently, our product team is the only one that I'm aware of in our organization. In the main organization, there is another app team that uses Perfecto. They use it a ton more than we do just because their product is much bigger. Their team roughly has 200 people.

There is a ton of potential for scalability because the other team that uses it is huge as compared to ours. They use it pretty heavily. They run thousands of tests a day, and I'm able to see their metrics as well. So, it definitely has a huge capability for scaling.

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RG
Director, QE Automation & Analytics at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Using the device lab has helped us to scale our day-to-day testing operations and in turn, it has helped to scale our business overall. 

Using virtual devices, such as the Android emulators and iOS simulators, is a feature that has definitely been a big help. Testing on virtual devices is a major chunk of our test cases, and it's important because we are not deepening any local infrastructure. We are totally reliant on virtual devices.

With respect to how hard it is to scale, we have a certain number of licenses and we've been told that we can scale up to whatever number we want to. Initially, there was a hiccup when we scaled to testing many devices in parallel, but I'm pretty comfortable with it now.

We generally plan to increase our usage of this product. More teams are being onboarded to the cloud and although we haven't chalked out a plan as of it, we do plan on purchasing more licenses. 

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Rodrigo Candido Costa - PeerSpot reviewer
Software Quality and Automation Specialist at PRIME CONTROL

The only scalability issue that we have, is that we always need to check manually if the devices are available. Our contract with most clients is for 10 to 12 slots, and it's already available. It still scales enough for our purposes. 

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AndyBrown - PeerSpot reviewer
Systems Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

We have open cradles where we can add devices and shift things around as needed. The scalability is 10 out of 10. All we have to do is specify which devices we want, where we want them, and what OSs we need those devices on.

As a ballpark figure, on both of our clouds, there may be 1,100 to 1,200 users.

We're talking about getting a Perfecto ADA demo scheduled. If our teams like how ADA works for them with Perfecto, I anticipate a lot more usage of the application.

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VR
Manager at a insurance company with 1,001-5,000 employees

It is positive. We haven't noted any challenges so far.

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reviewer1963857 - PeerSpot reviewer
Head of Quality at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

The product is pretty scalable. 

Perfecto’s device lab has helped us to scale our operations. We use the public cloud as well as the private cloud. With the public cloud, we can scale up devices very often. Our public cloud is also growing at the moment. This is definitely important to us.

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Sameer Bakshi - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Specialist at IBM

There is a huge possibility to scale it up. It depends on our project environment if we actually need to, but scalability-wise it is quite good.

We have a huge team of around 100 people who are using it, but it's distributed across teams. It's not like everyone uses it at once. We have a certain number of devices available and we are only able to use those devices.

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Govindaraj Ponnusamy - PeerSpot reviewer
Automation Architect at a tech consulting company with 10,001+ employees

Scalability-wise, it is great. Devices are always available. 

If we need devices, we can just send a request to Perfecto.

We have 300 to 400 devices in Android and 300 to 400 devices in iOS.

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FA
Automation Tester at IGM Financial

It's definitely scalable. For mobile testing, if Perfecto gets faster then we can utilize it in our bigger test cases. We do have some data-related test cases that really slow it down. If Perfecto can find a way to handle that, it can definitely grow with us.

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KC
IT Quality Control at a insurance company with 10,001+ employees

Its scalability is very good. We're a fully agile organization, so most of the users are testers, but we also have developers, product owners, and maybe a handful of business analysts who use it. It is currently being used extensively by a team of 800+ users. 

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FZ
Associate Software Engineer at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It's very scalable, although it's unlikely we will increase our usage of the solution.

It is used across at least 10 teams in our organization. 

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PY
automation tester at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is a seven out of 10.

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PM
Automation Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

I would rate the scalability as an eight out of 10.

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VG
Regional Head Customer Experience at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is not auto-scalable. We have dedicated devices that we use for testing our applications. There is an option for scalability but we aren't using it.

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JR
Prin IT Bus Systems Analyst at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is very good. We have four to five people using it at the moment, and we have five or six concurrent licenses. At peak, we have five people using it.

There are three or four teams of approximately eight people each who use it, and the time is shared based on their needs. We may expand this in the future but for now, we art set.

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AZ
Responsible for Test Management at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

The scalability is very easy to handle.

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it_user510336 - PeerSpot reviewer
Associate - Projects at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
it_user173214 - PeerSpot reviewer
Test Lead at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

There have been no issues with the scalability.

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