Mobile app automation often requires multiple services and libraries to be set up and platform-specific SDKs to be installed. Appium and WebdriverIO provide an interface to build tests that can run in both Android and iOS just by changing capabilities. In spite of the powerful interfaces, often mobile app automation projects are not set up to make use of this to full potential. Let's look at how to setup abstractions and reuse most of the automation scripts for Andorid and iOS app testing.

Test automation enables engineers to validate and test features and bug fixes at a faster rate. Test automation is primarily useful for regression testing. But is it enough to develop the automation scripts alone? Test automation is incomplete without reporting. Test Automation reports help QA engineers to analyse the test results in a cumulative manner, specifically failures and validate if they are actual issues or flaky tests. In this blog, the focus will be on automation reports and dashboards and the key metrics that will help simplify and expedite the report analysis.

During the month of October we have expanded DevAssure's Test Automation coverage to Mobile App Automation. The feature is currently in Beta. Besides this one of the major updates also include an enhanced customizable dashboard for automation analysis.

Applications that use chrome extensions to perform certain functionalities are difficult to test and automate because every test case would need the chrome extension to be loaded on the browser. In automation testing, every browser is loaded with a new context. In this blog we will learn how to load and add chrome extensions in test automation using playwright, selenium and a no code automation solution like DevAssure.

For all the tools being used, we will be automating a test case where an ad blocker extension will be added and we will be validating if the ad is not loading.

UI Automation is always challenging. Some of the reasons include

• Validation of different components and their behaviours
• Validation of structures with dynamic data
• Validation of dynamically changing content
• Validating async operations

And because of the complexity involved in automating the interactions with the components and the data associated with them, the tests are not stable, meaning that they don't fail or pass consistently. With UI Automation, unstable tests are a huge pain, because a lot of manual intervention would be required to check if it's an actual failure and identify why it failed now and not during the previous run, based on this a fix to make the test stable needs to be identified.

During the month of September, we have introduced many new features to help Quality Engineering teams build their automation scripts at a faster rate and also help them collaborate with their teams in a better way.

In software testing, besides testing new features before shipping to customers, it's also important to test the existing features in the application. Predominantly, different features across the software use shared resources. Modifying any of these shared resources for the new features, might cause compatibility issues with existing features. In other words, it causes regressions in the existing features or existing parts of the software. Hence regression testing is the process of testing the existing application or software for any defects that might have occurred due to the new changes being introduced. Regression testing can be performed across functional and non functional use cases.

A test management tool helps test engineers manage test cases throughout the development and testing cycle. This blog outlines some of the top test management tools available today.

API or Application programming interface is a set of rules that enables software programs or modules to communicate with each other. API testing is a type of software testing involving the testing of such rules. These rules serve as integration points between different modules within an application and also with 3rd party applications. In order to ensure the application functions seamlessly it is important to test the functionality, reliability, performance and security of the APIs.

Software testing is an extremely important process that cannot be skipped for the deployment of fintech products. Since the major use cases revolve around financial transactions and computations, it is essential to ensure that the fintech product or any banking solution or banking application functions seamlessly. In this blog, the focus is around how DevAssure's Automation solution can help improve the quality of fintech and banking products.