When automating test scenarios, it's important to validate how the data is being stored, processed and retrieved. This ensures data integrity, guaranteeing the application's overall functionality and user experience remain reliable. In this blog we will learn how to set up and add database validations in your test scripts developed with Playwright. In this blog the focus will be on Postgres set up, necessary libraries and code snippets that need to be added within your test scripts.

What is Software Testing?​

Software testing is a critical component of the software development lifecycle, designed to ensure the quality, functionality, and reliability of software applications. But what is software testing, and why is it so essential? Simply put, software testing is the process of evaluating a software product to identify any defects, bugs, or issues that could affect its performance. It involves a systematic approach to verifying that the software meets specified requirements, functions correctly under various conditions, and delivers a seamless user experience.

AI can play a crucial role in automating various aspects of quality assurance, from identifying bugs to running repetitive test cases with remarkable speed and accuracy. However, its capabilities remain limited when it comes to understanding the deeper human experience.

In today's fast paced development landscape, it's crucial to ensure the email functionality within your application works seamlessly. Emails are included in various flows of the application to enhance user experience - confirmation emails to validate the email id during sign ups, email OTP for logins, password resets, notifications to end users, or transactional emails. Bugs in emails can prevent new users from signing up or existing users to churn away. In this blog post, we'll explore how you can integrate MailSlurp with Playwright for robust email testing and introduce DevAssure—a next-generation platform that takes email testing to a whole new level.

We are in the age of AI Agentic Solutions, Faster Development Cycles, and Frequent Product Releases to stay competitive. The unnoticed paradigm shift in the development life cycle considerably impacts the testing teams, as they have to keep up with release plans.

What is a Test Automation Tool?​

A test automation tool is a software testing tool that helps software testers to perform seamless automation testing. Adopting a test automation tool can leverage the automation testing process by reducing tedious manual tasks. While testing complex software at an enterprise level, a test automation tool can be very handy.

What is a Magic Link?​

Similar to OTPs, magic links are used to authenticate users by using only the email address. It is a "one-time use URL" sent to the user’s email address, which the user can use to securely access the application. The url contains time bound and secure embed tokens which help authenticate the user without a password.

What is OTP?​

OTP or One Time Password is used to secure data and a mechanism to secure user accounts through multi-factor authentication. Most applications have multi factor authentication enabled. In such applications, besides the username and password, users also provide the OTP, which is a series of alphanumeric characters generated at random for every request. Users also use OTP as a one-time access method to log in while validating the email they used to sign up.

The canvas element is a part of HTML5 that allows for dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmap images. The objects inside a canvas are not accessible using the DOM hence element locators like ID, CSS, Xpath, classname etc cannot be used to locate and interact with the objects on canvas. The only way to perform automation on a canvas is to use the coordinates in the view port of the browser to interact with the objects in the canvas.

Shopify is an ecommerce platform that allows users to create, customise and manage their online stores. It consists of inbuilt tools that assist with product listings, inventory management, managing payment gateways and more. In summary, it's an all in one platform for building and maintaining online stores.

Testing Shopify apps is similar to testing any ecommerce platform. In this blog, we will focus on designing, creating and automating test cases for a Shopify app.