AI: Your New Best Friend in Complex Web App Testing

The Age of AI

AI is everywhere! It has increasingly become the modern replacement for all traditional platforms, across a diverse set of stakeholders and industries.

AI is like everyone’s mutual best friend—one who is always by your side, offering reliable advice, helping you with tasks, guiding you through complex challenges, and finding issues you might overlook.

Complexities in Modern Web App Testing

But does introducing AI in testing mean just automating the testing process?

As AI is enabling new solutions in testing, it is also introducing a new set of challenges that need to be managed. Testing web applications presents unique challenges due to varying devices, browsers, frameworks, and dynamic user behavior. 

Let’s explore the top 6 challenges in web app testing and how AI is offering solutions.

1. Creating tests for complex applications

Challenges:

Today’s complex applications have a large code base that keeps evolving as requirements keep adding/changing. Tests written without a detailed requirement analysis are brittle and prone to errors. 

AI Solution:

Gen AI can generate test cases based on the application’s codebase and requirements by analyzing the code and identifying edge cases. It can also be used to cover positive and negative test cases and edge cases.

Webomates CQ  offers code coverage as an optional add-on to the AI test automation. It integrates with the code coverage feature in the popular static code analysis tool SonarQube. The tool enables customers to view coverage metrics for a new code added, overall code, by package/directory, and by file. 

Say for 300 test cases, AI-generated test cases are delivered in just 2 weeks, with full control and approval of each test case by customer’s team.

2. Regeneration of test cases by AI

Challenge:

Test scripts are created to test specific functionalities within an application. However, applications keep changing when new features are added, UI elements are modified, bugs are fixed, or code is refactored. When these updates happen, it’s a challenge to manually update all the scripts for every change.

AI Solution:

AI can make testing frameworks adaptive to the changes in the application. This flexibility ensures that QA teams do not have to rewrite the test scripts for every update.

Webomates‘ trademarked AiHealing® uses AI to automatically detect UI changes and adjust the scripts accordingly, reducing manual effort and ensuring that your testing efforts remain relevant and effective even as your application evolves. 
Say for 300 test cases, the updated test cases and automation are ready in 24 hours, ensuring the customer’s team can re-approve all modifications.

3. Cloud Testing Environments

Challenge:

Earlier, applications were centralized and had a client-server architecture. Today’s modern-day applications are ‘cloud-based and have distributed architecture, making traditional ways of development and testing obsolete.’

AI Solution:

AI-powered virtual testing platforms provide QA teams with the capability to simulate a vast range of browser-platform-device combinations while doing away with the necessity of physical hardware. Fast, thorough testing can be conducted easily due to this flexibility.
Testing as a Service – also known as On-Demand testing service – leverages cloud infrastructure and advanced AI capabilities reducing the operational expenses and increasing on-demand testing services. TaaS solutions are scalable, can create test cases and test scripts, and also keep them up-to-date.

4. Cross-Brower Compatibility

Challenge:

Different browsers render elements differently, and ensuring a web app works across multiple browsers and their various versions is complex and time-consuming. Such issues can lead to inconsistent experiences impacting the overall user experience.

AI Solution:

AI-driven tools can automate cross-browser testing by analyzing the visual and functional differences across browsers. AI tools can mimic the operations carried out on several browsers and platforms at the same time.

Webomates CQ offers robust multi-platform cross-browser testing, utilizing integrations with BrowserStack, Sauce labs, and AWS to test your application or website’s visual layouts and designs on real devices.

5. Dynamic and Responsive UI Testing and Third-Party Integrations

Challenge:

Web apps today are highly dynamic, with content that changes based on user interactions and device types. They often integrate with third-party services or APIs, which can introduce additional complexities. Testing every possible UI state and responsiveness is a complex and time-consuming task.

AI Solution:

A unified framework that combines UI and API testing is an ideal approach to understand the end-to-end behavior of the application. 
Webomates uses various UI Testing tools and a different UI framework called Galen for visual testing of applications. For API testing, we emphasize on performance and security testing to ensure thorough testing of the API.

6. Continuous Integration and Continuous Testing

Challenge:

Large test suites become cumbersome, slowing down testing cycles and impacting release timelines. In modern agile and DevOps environments, testing needs to be integrated continuously as part of the CI/CD pipeline. Manually running large test suites is resource-intensive and inefficient. With the added complexity of IoT, Cloud and AI technologies, there is an increased demand for faster feature development and testing within tight timeframes.

AI Solution:

AI helps in automating continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines, enabling teams to adopt the shift-left testing approach. 

Webomates CQ seamlessly integrates with your CI/CD processes testing builds for smoke, overnight, and regression testing, reducing testing cycles from weeks to just hours.

Rewiring the Complex Web App Testing with Webomates

Testing is critical to any application; AI is there to help you increase your efficiency! Introduce your team to AI Testing for an improved GTM plan, decreased total cost of ownership, faster development, and driving more business value. 

To empower this bold vision, Webomates built a platform for teams to experience the power of Intelligent automation testing and test management.

Leveraging AI and Gen AI, Webomates can generate test cases in as little as 2 weeks, and when software changes, test cases are automatically regenerated or updated in response within 24 hours. Its trademarked AiHealing® and Autoheal capabilities automatically fix test scripts for changes in locators, timeouts, or feature modifications, eliminating the need for manual intervention.

The platform enables teams to accelerate their time-to-market by providing the framework, tooling, and accelerators to test their application across any industry type.

Partner with us to accelerate your testing process. Click here to schedule a demo. You can also reach out to us at info@webomates.com. 

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