2Steps

Case studies

How a government shared ICT provider brought hundreds of applications, including legacy systems, under continuous testing

A shared ICT service provider supporting national government agencies runs a very large application estate, including systems built on Oracle Forms, technology old enough that most modern monitoring platforms cannot reach it.

Results at a glance

tests run per year
~25M
of applications monitored
100s

The problem

Their observability tools had no visibility into legacy applications. Systems built on older technology such as Oracle Forms went unmonitored, so problems were only found when someone happened to notice.

What 2Steps tested

  • Continuous synthetic testing across a large estate of applications, including legacy Oracle Forms systems.

  • Visual, screen-level validation that needs no API or code access, so older and non-standard applications are covered the same way as modern ones.

  • Failure video review, giving the team visual evidence of exactly what broke rather than a log line to interpret.

How it worked

  1. 1

    Map the estate

    Priority applications were identified across the shared service, including legacy systems their existing tools couldn't reach.

  2. 2

    Build workflow tests

    Tests were recorded against the live applications, replicating the steps a real user takes.

  3. 3

    Run continuously

    Tests now run on an ongoing schedule, checking hundreds of applications without needing code-level access to any of them.

The result

The team can now see whether critical workflows are working across its application estate, including legacy systems. It has singled out failure video review and reach into legacy applications as the main advantages over alternative tools. Downtime is now picked up and actioned through 2Steps, instead of waiting for users to call the service desk.

What's next

Coverage continues to expand as more of the legacy estate is tested rather than being left to fail silently.

See it working in your own environment.

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