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    Alpha and automated testing

    Has anybody tried and been successful in using automated testing tools with ALpha foR web apps (and mobile?!)

    There have been earlier posts, but I felt that there have been so many new things in automated testing, and in Alpha , so it was worth a new thread.

    We have desktop web apps, and some phone/tablet apps and wanted to make regression testing as easy and quick as Alpha development.
    We don't have the time to do 100% testing on every release, and we do like to release often.

    We had looked at Selenium before we came to Alpha, but now we didn't want to end up writing more code for testing than we had on the app.
    SmartBear looked good but too expensive for what we wanted.
    Katalon was the right price (free), and has options (Manual mode and recording) to minimise code volume.

    But we have had much success beyond being able to log on. It could be just us of course!

    So here we are - any good stories to tell?

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    Re: Alpha and automated testing

    I looked at a number of companies offering stress testing and/or application validation programs.

    For validation testing I would recommend giving Ghost Inspector a try.

    My interest is more in Stress Testing, so I successfully used https://www.dotcom-monitor.com/ to stress test the three commonly used components in my app.

    I've been redoing that stress test with "TruClient" script recorder/editor from MicroFocus. I like it a lot, but I have not finished the test scripts, yet.

    There are a lot of short-comings to the various script editors. It can be difficult finding a script editor that has the smarts to identify objects you want to manipulate in your test, if you are trying to test at the HTML/DOM user interface level. Some script capture programs work by recording the GET/POST messages instead of trying to capture things at the UI level, these can be even more tricky. I use an intermediate login page (a page the user never really sees) as the system goes from the login component to the intermediate page to the page holding the tabbedUI. To make the testing programs work, I put a Submit button on that intermediate page. That really helped keep the testing engine and the app server in-sync and happy.

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      #3
      Re: Alpha and automated testing

      Thought I'd give an update, just in case anyone else in in this spot.
      We've tried LOTS of things for this, from free to $10kpa+.

      Many just don't work. One of them (mabl) has admitted it can't do the job, because there are iOS elements in the HTML and some unspecified reasons

      The best we have found to date is testim.io.
      It has a good UI to work with and seems to identify elements without a hassle. It provides for dynamic data ("data grids"), looping and grouping of steps, and much more. It is also amenable to modification, and claims to deal with system UI changes. Haven't tested this last one yet. Also still waiting on pricing.
      Last edited by martinconnolly888; 06-18-2019, 11:08 PM.

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