MagicPod, Inc. (Headquarters: Chuo-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Nozomu Ito) is pleased to announce that NTT Docomo, Inc. (Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yoshiaki Maeda) has adopted its AI test automation platform "MagicPod".

NTT Docomo operates its business on three main pillars: telecommunications, smart life, and corporate solutions. In its smart life business, it is responsible for the development and maintenance of over 100 products, including "d POINT" and "Lemino".

The company faced challenges in agile development where manual E2E testing became a bottleneck, leading to slower development speeds and delayed releases. After comparing multiple test automation tools, NTT Docomo highly evaluated "MagicPod" for its implementation cost, which was approximately one-fourth compared to other tools, its ability to support local physical device testing (which is difficult with cloud-only solutions), and its seamless CI/CD integration. These factors led to the adoption of "MagicPod".

As a result, the test execution person-days for smartphone app releases were significantly reduced from 23 person-days to 3 person-days. Furthermore, by utilizing the AI test automation agent "MagicPod Autopilot", the company successfully reduced test case creation time by 66%.

The full interview can be viewed here.

URL:https://magicpod.com/customer-stories/NTTdocomo/

Comments from NTT Docomo Representatives

※ Excerpted and re-edited from the interview

Riki Mitsui (Senior Principal Architect, Consumer Services Company)

Beyond the low implementation cost, what I truly appreciated after using it was the "positive impact on quality." We initially started with the goal of shortening delivery times and improving cost efficiency, but as a result, quality also improved, with automated tests detecting bugs that manual tests couldn't find. I truly feel it benefits all aspects of QCD (Quality, Cost, Delivery).

Akari Idei (Service Platform Manager, First Product Design Department, Consumer Services Company)

Our challenges were rework due to manual testing in later stages and stagnation in development speed. By introducing MagicPod, we achieved "shift-left" testing and reduced testing person-hours by approximately 50%. The ability to reallocate freed-up resources to development is a huge advantage. I recommend starting small and then expanding from there.

Fumitaka Ueda (Second Technology Development Manager, Video Services, First Product Design Department, Consumer Services Company)

With the introduction, we can now conduct tests approximately 10 times faster than manual testing. The cycle of early bug detection and pre-release fixes has definitely accelerated. Also, we are creating test cases using the generative AI-powered "MagicPod Autopilot" feature. Reviewing and correcting AI-generated cases is overwhelmingly faster than creating them from scratch, and we are fully experiencing the efficiency on the ground.

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About AI Test Automation Platform "MagicPod"

"MagicPod" is an AI test automation platform that supports both mobile app and browser (web app) testing. It helps accelerate release cycles through its intuitive design that requires no special skills like programming, high maintainability due to cloud service provision, and reduced effort in modifying test programs thanks to AI-powered automatic corrections. Over 500 companies, including leading companies in the IT industry, have already adopted it.

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You can view case studies from companies such as Konica Minolta, Inc., UPSIDER, Inc., Coincheck, Inc., MIXI, Inc., GLOBIS Corporation, and LINE Yahoo Communications Corporation.

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Company Information

Company Name: MagicPod, Inc.

Representative Director: Nozomu Ito

Location: The Shore Nihonbashi Kayabacho 4F, 1-2 Hakozaki-cho, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo

Established: July 2012

Business Activities: Development and operation of "MagicPod", an AI-powered test automation cloud service

URL:https://magicpod.com/corporate/

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