Introducing DevAssure | Low code Test Automation Platform

What is Test Automation? Why is Test Automation important?

Test Automation is the practice of using software tools and scripts to execute tests on the application under test automatically. It involves creating test scripts that can be executed repeatedly with minimal human intervention to identify bugs in the application under test. Test automation is predominantly used in regression testing, to ensure new changes in the application do not break the existing functionalities in the application. Additionally automated tests can also be scripted for performance and load testing.

Advantages of using Test Automation

1. Efficiency and speed of execution
   • Faster execution - Automated tests are faster to execute, and consume much less time as compared to manual testing.
   • Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Automated tests can be integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, thereby ensuring efficient and quick validations on the features being implemented.
   • Repeatability - Tests can be executed across multiple browsers, devices, environments, ensuring the ability to test faster across different parameters.
   • Agile development - Automated testing is essential for maintaining quality in environments where frequent releases and continuous updates are the norm.
2. Reliability
   • Elimination of Human Error: Automated tests perform the same operations precisely each time they are run, eliminating the possibility of human error.
3. Increased Test Coverage
   • Better coverage than manual testing - Test-Automation is a one time effort to automate complex use cases and corner case scenarios.
4. Improved ROI
   • Cost effective - Automated tests can be executed repeatedly at no additional cost.
   • Shift left testing - Automated testing helps detect bugs early in the development cycle, which reduces the cost and effort required to fix them later.

With test automation, development teams can deliver high quality software faster.

Test automation involves developing automation frameworks.

Learn more about the different types of automation frameworks.

What is a Low Code Test Automation Platform?

A Low Code Test Automation Platform allows users to create, execute and manage automated tests with minimal manual coding. These platforms provide a visual interface with drag-and-drop features, pre-built components, and reusable test modules, enabling users to design automated tests quickly and efficiently without requiring extensive programming knowledge.

What is DevAssure?

DevAssure is a unified AI-driven low-code platform designed to cater to various testing needs within the software development lifecycle. The platform helps users to automate test cases at a faster pace. It promotes a shift-left approach to testing, encouraging test-driven development and ensuring high-quality software delivery.

DevAssure is built keeping in house automation frameworks in mind. It brings in all the capabilities of an automation framework and can be adapted and customised to the requirements of the application under test.

Automating complex use cases with ease makes DevAssure one of the best low-code test automation platforms. The out of the box support for test data management, environment configuration management and page object model, enables test driven development with ease.

DevAssure's ROI

1. Automate tests from day 1 - With DevAssure, there is no need to spend a considerable amount of time in developing and maintaining a test automation framework. Tests can be automated from day 1. This saves cost and improves time to value.
2. Automate tests at a faster rate - With DevAssure's recorder, test cases can be automated at a faster rate. DevAssure's users are able to automate hundreds of test cases in a week's time.
3. Self healing tests - DevAssure offers the capability to self heal tests, the ability to detect elements in the DOM, even if some of the attributes of the element changes. This saves test maintenance time and cost.
4. Reliability - DevAssure's actions are built to ensure reliability of the test automation.
5. Cost effectiveness - With DevAssure, there is no additional cost involved in parallel executions. Additionally the tool offers multiple ways of modularising for using repetitive scripts and data, thereby decreasing the tool maintenance cost.
6. CI Integration - DevAssure's CLI allows easy integration with any CI system like Jenkins, CircleCI, Github actions, TeamCity, to name a few.
7. Increased Productivity - By automating repetitive and time-consuming tasks, DevAssure allows engineers to focus on more strategic and high-value activities, thereby boosting productivity and innovation.

Features

DevAssure has a huge set of features and enhanced capabilities which makes it one of the top QA test automation solutions available.

Test Data Management

DevAssure allows execution of the automated tests against multiple data sets and data sources. Here are the different test data sources that are supported by the test automation tool.

1. Static Tables - The tool provides the ability to add multiple rows and columns of test data. The data types can also be added as part of the column headers.
2. CSV files - Data can be uploaded from csv files as well and the test data manager is intelligent enough to identify the headers and the data.
3. Database connectors - Data can be retrieved from databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL.
4. Grouping multiple data sources - Instead of recreating data sets from multiple sources, DevAssure offers the ability to join data from multiple sources which can be customised based on the test case.

Learn more about DevAssure's Test Data Management.

Test Actions

DevAssure provides a set of pre-defined functions known as test actions that can be integrated into your test steps to execute test cases effectively. These test actions automate a variety of tasks on a webpage, such as entering text into forms, clicking buttons, and verifying the content of elements. Each action is designed to serve a specific purpose in interacting with web elements and is categorized based on its function.

Learn more about DevAssure's Actions.

Managing environments

One of the key requirements in any test automation tool is the ability to execute the same test cases across multiple environments. DevAssure has an out of the box solution for the same, and additionally with DevAssure, test data and other configurations can also be managed across multiple environments.

Learn more about creating and managing environments on DevAssure.

Managing constants

Constants are useful because they are declared and assigned once, but can be referred to over and over again throughout the program. DevAssure provides the ability to define constants with values that vary depending on the test environment. This enables writing reusable test cases that can execute seamlessly across different environments (e.g., Development, Staging, Production) without modifying the core test logic.

Learn more about creating and managing constants on DevAssure.

API Automation

DevAssure's API Testing helps QA Professionals to instantly test and validate API requests in real time. Users can perform API testing without a need for any third party tools. This is a replacement for rest assured frameworks. Additionally, DevAssure provides the ability to seamlessly integrate API data generations and validations along with the web application functional testing.

Secrets storage

DevAssure provides the capabilities to store secrets securely as part of your test automation code. The secrets are encrypted and stored within the file system.

Learn more about creating and managing secrets in DevAssure.

Cookie based authentication

DevAssure provides the support to authenticate users based on cookie storage. While recording, the state can be stored in a file, and the same file can be loaded every time when there is a use case to be automated with an auth flow. This enhances execution time of the test automation and also reduces test automation flakiness.

Learn more about cookie based authentication on DevAssure.

Database Validations

DevAssure allows seamless integration with databases like PostgreSQL, MySQL etc that can be used as a data source for test data and for data validations within the automated tests. With the environment configuration support, the database can be configured for multiple environments.

Learn more about database validations on DevAssure.

Functions

DevAssure is a test automation tool that takes some of the design principles of a modular driven framework. With DevAssure tests can be broken down into smaller reusable modules called Functions with help creating efficient and maintainable test automation. This significantly reduces the maintenance cost. Additionally DevAssure's recorder is intelligent enough to understand existing functions, and extracts them while recording. This prevents duplicate functions being created when collaborating with the team to build the test automation.

Learn more about creating and using functions on DevAssure.

Visual Regression

DevAssure has in-built visual validation capabilities that help identify regression bugs with UX on the web and mobile web applications. These actions for visual testing can be added along with other function and API validations.

Learn more about visual regression testing on DevAssure.

Accessibility Testing

Accessibility testing is a process where websites and applications are tested to check their usability for all users. This includes visual, audio, physical, neurological, and cognitive issues. The goal is to create an equal user experience across all digital goods. DevAssure's test automation solution allows accessibility validation to be interleaved into the functional automation tests using industry-standard guidelines (WCAG).

Learn more on how accessibility testing can be done with DevAssure.

Automating Flutter apps with DevAssure

Quoting wikipedia, Flutter is an open-source UI software development kit created by Google. It can be used to develop cross platform applications from a single codebase for the web, Fuchsia, Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows. There are certain unique difficulties posed by Flutter's custom rendering engine and traditional automation tools fall short. But with DevAssure, automation becomes as seamless as ever. The recorder and test executor support Flutter web-app UI.

Learn how to automate flutter apps with DevAssure.

Integrating with CI/CD pipelines

DevAssure's CLI enables executing the test automation developed using DevAssure's desktop application on CI systems like Github Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins and many more. With a single command, CI pipelines can be configured to execute automated feature tests on PRs, regression and sanity tests to be executed at periodic intervals.

Learn more about working with DevAssure's CLI.

DevAssure has various other features which provide the ability to automate complex use cases. Check out DevAssure's Use Case Documentation to learn more on what DevAssure has to offer.

DevAssure's Roadmap

Here are the features planned as part of DevAssure's road map for the next 6 months

1. Support for Mobile App Automation
2. Ability to build tests with flow charts and drag and drop options
3. Advanced reporting and analytical capabilities
4. Github integrations

And much more.

Have a feature request? Reach out to us at [email protected].

DevAssure's Pricing

Compared to most automation tools in the market, DevAssure offers test automation solutions at a much lower cost, $60 per month per licence. Additionally there is a free plan available as well which is free forever.

DevAssure's Community

At DevAssure, our founders are committed to learning from the community, especially when it comes to challenges in testing and test automation. Our team is dedicated to addressing the concerns of QA engineers and developers, with the goal of creating the best automation tool tailored to a variety of needs.