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Why experience-led testing matters

Engineering organisations must deliver updates quickly across increasingly complex, connected products. Traditional testing approaches focus on isolated checks and technical correctness. This uncovers problems, but it does not always improve the customer experience. As one engineering manager noted, “Our product moved forward faster than our testing could keep up.”

A modern strategy must validate full customer journeys. A user’s interaction with a touchscreen, app, wearable device or smart accessory should behave consistently throughout the workflow. When testing reflects real usage, engineering teams can reduce risk earlier, improve reliability and shorten delivery cycles.

When testing lags behind product complexity

Many organisations rely on frameworks that require extensive scripting and rigid setup. These create bottlenecks and restrict automation to a small specialist group. One audio engineering organisation explained that they previously needed large numbers of contracted engineers simply to run repetitive checks. A medical-technology team said their earlier tools required months of Python integration, limiting progress and slowing releases.

These issues make it difficult for engineering leaders to see clear business value from testing. Time is often spent maintaining scripts or recreating intermittent problems, rather than improving the product experience.

Automating real customer workflows

The ATAMConnect automation suite helps teams automate complete customer interactions. Test engineers can validate how users navigate a vehicle display, interact with a mobile app, pair earbuds or engage with a connected home device. Testing flows follow the same sequences customers perform.

This approach allows organisations to understand product behaviour under realistic conditions. It also helps identify issues earlier and ensures that engineering teams focus on the scenarios that matter most to customers.

How experience-led testing improves outcomes

Engineering groups using the ATAMConnect automation suite report reductions in manual effort, more repeatable outcomes and faster release cycles. One engineering team observed that improvements in end-to-end coverage led directly to stronger customer feedback and fewer support cases.

Organisations also highlight that focusing on customer workflows improves communication between engineering, product and quality teams. It becomes clearer how features behave in practice and where improvements deliver the greatest customer benefit.

See automated customer journeys in action

The video demonstrates how engineering teams automate real usage patterns with the ATAMConnect automation suite. It shows how workflows across displays, apps, earbuds, embedded boards and smart devices can be executed consistently in a single environment. These examples help illustrate how experience-led testing improves reliability and supports faster delivery.

Quality engineering that creates customer value

Testing is most effective when it contributes directly to customer experience. Validating real workflows reduces the likelihood of issues in the field, improves reliability and builds trust in the product.

The ATAMConnect automation suite supports this by making experience-led validation accessible and scalable across engineering teams. Organisations adopting this approach are strengthening product quality, reducing risk and supporting better business outcomes.

Find out more about Nextgen ATAMConnect test automation. For more information about how Nextgen can support your product development, please contact us today or call +44 3331 120 000.

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To learn more about automated product testing and how it can benefit your business, and for further information about how Nextgen can support your connected product and firmware development, and QA processes please contact us today or call +44 3331 120 000.