Case Study

Efficient data automation for 940+ school districts

Building seamless self-service tools for Clever

The Client

Clever

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clever.com

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Description

Clever, a platform powering digital learning for K12 schools, had two mission critical projects to complete on tight deadlines: automating processes to securely move school district data and building out a self-service tool to provision users into other identity providers.

Test Double consultants hit both aggressive deadlines, leaving the team with well-tested code easily understood.

Location & Size

200+ employees
San Francisco, California

Services Provided

Software Delivery

Impact Areas

Custom software development
Automated processing
Identity management

The Mission

(we chose to accept it)

Clever is an education technology platform providing single-sign on to access online learning tools and programs. It needed to make things easy for busy school administrators at the height of the pandemic.

To empower online learners, they had two mission critical projects to complete on tight deadlines:

Automate the process of securely moving school district data into the edtech tool
Build a self-service tool to provision Clever users into other identity providers.

The goals of both projects was providing a user-friendly experience for busy school district staff to easily manage administrative tasks that make online learning possible.

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The Fix

Test Double consultants focused on two simultaneous projects: back-end development written in Golang to develop automated user data processing, plus back- and front-end development with Golang and React on a self-service identity management tool.

The solution we provided included:

Developed beta system for districts to automate syncing of users from Clever to a popular edtech tool based on integration with school information systems
Built a secure, easy-to-use, self-service identity management system for school districts to provision users from Clever
Monitored high-throughput projects closely to keep things on track and well-tested

At Test Double, we believe in building great software and great teams, too.

We taught in-house developers with an approach that meets them where they are. Along the way, we became knowledge experts to provide context, get people up to speed quickly, influence architecture and help make product decisions.

CONSULTANTS

Tech & Techniques

Golang
React

The Results

Test Double consultants successfully hit both aggressive project deadlines.

We handed off well-tested code easily understood by newcomers on multiple rapidly changing teams. Along the way, we helped identify architecture and tooling fixes for immediate performance improvements and made a lasting impact in secure, maintainable code.

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12.6M

Automatic rostering requests from 940+ districts & 12.6M daily API requests

Identify gaps in architecture & tooling to improve immediate performance

Meet aggressive deadlines with well-tested, secure & maintainable code

Testimonial

Deep Experience

Test Double delivered a performance that in one case doubled our throughput . . . Steve continues to see around corners— identifying gaps in our architecture, proposing and implementing new approaches. I couldn’t imagine this project succeeding without his technical leadership.

Dan Carroll

Clever

Testimonial

Holistic Problem Solving

Kenneth delivered features quickly from week one and enabled us to catch the school sales cycle for our new product. He also did extra credit beyond the sprint: raised the bar on automated testing and proactively helped ramp up new team members. Kenneth reshaped my views on the value an embedded contractor can bring to a team.

Marco Kitagawa Pedroso

Clever