Electric vehicles have been around since the late 1800s, but it is modern technology that completely revolutionized this industry. It is not long before we will witness a completely interconnected transportation system accessible on our smartphones.
Newer innovations and expertise will be the future of e-mobility in the future. But for these e-mobility solutions to be successful, the right blend of robust hardware and reliable software is necessary.
In this article, we shall discuss the various software-related aspects of e-mobility platforms and how quality assurance services can improve the performance of e-mobility software.
Let’s get started:
Introduction to E-mobility technology
SaaS-based mobility platforms provide operating systems for electric vehicles. These solutions are responsible for making e-mobility safe, secure, smart and connected. They also help with data analysis and enhance the overall experience through personalization.
Most of these applications heavily rely on advanced telematics and AI/ML-based features.
E-mobility software can be of various types, such as:
- Navigation assist software
- Battery support software
- Vehicle roadside assistance software
- Vehicle diagnostics software
- Customer profile management software
- Ride-booking software
- Anti-theft software
- SOS alerts software
- Service records and service requests software
- AI-based dynamic ride software
With smart features to collect and monitor vehicular data, these e-mobility solutions personalize user experience, empowering personal commute and shared transportation through AI-integrated IoT solutions.
The role of QE in supporting e-mobility ventures
With complex architectures involving microservices, integrated applications and interfaces, Mobility-as-a-service (MaaS) applications highly depend on quality engineering to prove their mettle.
Here are five ways in which quality engineering (QE) can help ensure reliability, stability and optimal performance in MaaS and e-mobility solutions:
- Shortened time to market
E-Mobility software developers are constantly improving their smart solutions for an electrified world. These innovative solutions are enabling electric mobility to enter the mass market. Under constant pressure to improve software services and add new features, mobility app developers are in a frenzy to test critical functions and implementations.
Bringing in QE can streamline the quality conformation process, allowing test coordinators to chart out and follow a definitive timeline on testing, thus ensuring the final product will be deployed in time.
- Improved processes
Software plays a vital role in E-mobility; it is thus essential that functional and performance aspects be tested for improvement in processes. Furthermore, customers depend on intelligent technology in electric vehicles, and this technology is dependent on quality engineering.
With the help of QE, you can streamline the collaboration between passenger data, integrators, and service providers. QE also helps adjudge how well transmissions and data processing happens in real-time. It also checks app performance under stressful or heavy load conditions.
- Improved user experience
For mobility solutions to be intelligent and adaptive, they need to run smoothly, be accessible to all, and cater to user-specific needs. Personalization plays an important role, and QE helps in achieving just that.
Testing the e-mobility application for a flawless UX is one of the first steps to ensuring that the customer finds the app usable and reliable. Expert content optimization and Natural language processing (NLP) are good places to start.
- Reduced costs
Let’s face it. Mobility solutions are expensive to build and operate. Be it a minor software error or a significant flaw; it can result in recalling an entire fleet of products.
Although Quality engineering solutions can be expensive in terms of the efforts and resources spent on them, it is even costlier to fix software errors, making QE a good investment for mobility software solutions in the long run.
Also, QE brings in automation that can further slash manual testing costs.
- Secured platforms
Safety is a given in vehicles and transportation solutions, thus making it binding on manufacturers to choose secure software that protects the passengers and ensures a safe ride. QE helps secure e-mobility solutions by testing for inherent software vulnerabilities.
When the software is continually validated for security, it uproots all kinds of cyber threats. A QE strategy such as the shift-left testing approach introduces security into every development phase, identifying vulnerabilities early on and proactively preventing attacks.
Tying it up:
The successful implementation of a unified E-mobility system depends on seamless performance, accurate tracking, timely planning, management and robust automation frameworks. In the absence of an adequate test infrastructure or poor test data management, things can go haywire.
It is thus crucial to include test automation services and quality engineering solutions as definitive elements when building intelligent mobility solutions. With appropriate QE, there is no risk of improper functional or automation test coverage and any unoptimized QE processes. QE aids the development of automated test suites and integrated testing into the CD pipeline.
At Qualitest, QE experts have an in-depth experience in testing e-mobility solutions and smart mobility software for correctness. Our services span logistics, transportation and other mobility software to verify and validate them for better UX, tracking, analytics, and operational readiness.
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