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Kelly Blue Book Achieves 100% Cloud Adoption to Reduce Regression Testing Cycles

Kelley Blue Book, The Trusted Resource®, is the leading vehicle valuation and information source. Trusted by both consumers and the automotive industry, KBB provides the most heavily-referenced values in the industry on its top-rated website.

Challenges
  • Sought the ability to increase product time-to-market and push innovation faster
  • Strong competition with owning market share
  • Needed to deploy on-demand without extensive testing (instead of 2x/week)
  • Platform needed to support new microservices architecture blueprint
Success Stats
  • 100% cloud adoption
  • 250+ deployments per month, increased from 12
  • 25% reduction in regression test cycles
  • 70% of testing automated in first year
KMS Impact
  • Supported a 100% cloud migration strategy with AWS; Shifted to a microservices architecture by maintaining a monolith platform once shift was complete.
  • Combined ALM tools across scrum teams to adopt an automation-first mindset and long-term strategy; led to the ability to deploy product tests on demand.
  • Implemented smart Agile practices such as continuous planning and Lean development across all teams, resulting in increased time-to-market and delivery efficiency.
  • Attained a low product team attrition rate which contributed to an increase in both team confidence and overall business productivity.

KMS has been a key factor in the success of Kelley Blue Book. We are able to flex and scale our engineering capabilities by leveraging the KMS team, which enables us to deliver industry-leading solutions.

VP of Software Engineering
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