Tableau sees a 3-month payback in developer productivity with Develocity
The problem
Lack of granular data on builds and tests
- Slow builds were wasting developer time and causing team-wide frustration.
- Long MTTR due to lack of granular data to find and prioritize problems.
“We consider this a $100M problem.”
Andrew Kass
VP of Engineering
“We have given our heaviest software builders back 15 hours every 2 weeks.”
Sam Snyder
Senior Software Engineer
The solution
Reduced build times and better failure data
- 1Build Cache to reduce build times by enabling the reuse of unchanged build and test outputs that are unaffected by new code.
- 2Build Scan® to provide observability and comprehensive reports for incident contextualization and root cause data analysis.
- 3Test Failure Analytics to proactively find unreliable builds and flaky tests.
The outcome
Heaviest software builders save 15 hours every two weeks
- 15 hours given back every 2 weeks for Tableau’s heaviest software builders.
- Shortened the iteration time, keeping developers in a state of flow versus constant context-switching.
- Task-level data is provided for every local and CI build.
- Visualization in Tableau dashboards of errors and developer trends using Develocity API.