Automation Testing Services
Every software product in its development life cycle comes to a point when it is no longer possible to maintain its quality via manual testing only. At this stage, the introduction of test automation becomes mandatory. It can help support the product's quality throughout the rapid development cycles and growing market demands.
Automated software testing as a service is integral to continuous integration (CI). It helps you stabilize your product's performance and save time and effort the quality control takes. In addition, it is an effective solution for finding bugs at different stages of the software life cycle, and it is crucial in organizing regression testing as automating the routine processes eliminates or at least significantly reduces the human factor.
The automated software testing solutions we create are integrated into the CI/CD processes and provide immediate value, justifying your investment. Our QA team provides a high level of testing organization through professional management and ensures that the best practices for software automated testing and product quality management are applied.
Benefits of automated testing
In a high-tech environment, the speed and efficiency of quality control play an essential role. Therefore, there are reasons for deciding in favor of test automation:
With software automated testing, large numbers of tests can be run in parallel, allowing for much faster testing. For example, if you have 2,000 tests, running them in 10 threads would take only an hour, compared to at least a week if testing manually. Autotests can also be run outside business hours so your team can get test results the next morning.
Automated tests can be run under multiple conditions:
- on different browsers,
- screen sizes,
- operating systems,
- network types and speeds.
Testing has high precision and reliability because its results do not depend on human factors. The system will never forget which test and check you’ve planned to run and won’t miss any step.
Automation can replace hundreds of hours of manual testing. This way, it saves on personnel costs and frees up equipment resources.
Security testing is another type of testing that widely uses automation tools for stability and saving working time.
Automated Software Testing Services we provide
We provide automated software testing services, such as building automated testing on your project from scratch or refactoring and maintaining existing autotests. As a full-stack QA company, we also can deliver the creation of manual test cases (test documentation) as a base for future automation.
GUI (Graphical User Interface) Testing
Users, 100% of the time, will interact with your product through its user interface. Thus, UI testing is crucial because it is closely related to usability. Before checking for errors in the system, we test the software application's design and user interface elements (for example, menus, buttons, icons, etc.) on different devices and in different environments. High-quality and functional UI can involve more users from the target audience and significantly increase income.
API Testing
This type of automated software testing analyzes the program interface of an application to ensure that it meets the stated functionality, security, performance, and reliability requirements. Our specialists pay close attention to API testing since this type of testing does not require the GUI to be implemented and therefore allows start testing your application's business logic as soon as possible. API testing focuses on the requests and responses that various parts of your application exchange. API testing is carried out not only to find errors and defects but also to check the resistance of your application to cyberattacks.
Continuous Testing
It is the practice of integrating testing as a fundamental and ongoing aspect of every software life cycle activity. Continuous testing uses automated tools to load predefined QA scripts at different stages of development. These automated scripts sequentially validate source code efficiencies and ensure any relevant feedback is immediately provided to the responsible teams while eliminating the need for regular human intervention when running tests. When implementing continuous testing in a project, the goal of our QA team is to provide actionable feedback at each stage of the delivery pipeline and assess whether a release candidate is risky to pass the delivery pipeline.
Mobile Testing Automation
Web Testing Automation
Desktop Testing Automation
QA Automation Technologies We Use
At Luxe Quality, we know that automated testing should be adaptive to fulfill even the most sophisticated business needs. For this purpose, we use different tools and programming languages, such as:
Webdriver.io
Playwright
Cucumber
Robot Framework
Pytest
Selenium
TestNG
Cypress
JUnit
BrowserStack
Appium
TypeScript
Python
Java
When to Automate
Automated testing is advised with a stable, rarely updated development environment (for example, once a week). In this case, created autotests are run locally or embedded into the CI system to run automatically after each code change. This approach saves a lot of time and manual effort. Automation testing services are particularly important in cases such as:
Regression testing verifies whether the introduced changes did not break the operation of already existing functions of the application. The automation of this process allows you to quickly and efficiently pass many test scenarios. Usually held each sprint and is the basis for maintaining the quality of products.
Automation of repetitive tests is ideal for modular or integration tests. It aims to test after fixing each bug in the same part of the functionality, allowing developers to waste no time and focus on other tasks. In addition, automation will increase the accuracy of test results, minimizing the risk of human factors.
Automated smoke testing is a quick check of the system's primary functions after code changes, performed before more detailed tests to eliminate the possibility of critical errors. It uses special programs that automatically run test scripts that check the system's key features, which allows you to evaluate the working capacity of the product quickly.
In automated data-driven, tests are created using information stored in a file or database rather than static values given in the test code. The test script can be re-executed for each row of data from the source, checking the results against the expected output. This technique is also known as table-driven testing or parameterized testing. The steps involved in creating data-driven automated testing can vary depending on the type of software, the tool used, and the testing environment.
Automated software testing can also be used for load and performance testing. These tests include simulating large volumes of traffic, user activity, or load on the application to test its reactions and sustainability.
Test Automation Frameworks We Use
Webdriver IO
WebdriverIO is a progressive system created to automate modern web and mobile applications. It simplifies interaction with the application and provides a set of plugins to help create a scalable, reliable, and stable test suite. It runs automation based on the WebDriver protocol and uses built-in browser APIs to provide integration with popular developer tools.
Selenium WebDriver
Selenium WebDriver is a tool that allows cross-browser testing. QA specialists use Selenium to automate browser operations, test web app performance, and retrieve website data. It supports various programming languages (JS/TS, Java, C#, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python), simultaneously allows parallel testing in multiple browsers, and has open source and a large user community.
Playwright
The Playwright is an open-source web testing framework that allows cross-browser testing and web automation through Chromium, Firefox, and WebKit with a single API. In addition, this framework has many valuable functions that include API support for JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Java, NET, and a tool for creating test cases by capturing and reproducing user actions.
Cypress
Cypress is a modern UI testing framework tool adapted to the latest web technologies and has an informative real-time GUI reporter that allows one to analyze every test step even while the test is running. This helps developers and QA engineers to catch typical problems faster. It is based on Node.js and is installed as an npm module. JavaScript is used to write tests.
Pytest + Selenium
Pytest and Selenium are two powerful tools for automating the testing of Python web applications. Pytest is a test writing framework that provides a wide range of functionality and user-friendly syntax. Selenium is a browser automation tool that allows you to interact with web pages and perform actions that users usually perform.
Robot Framework
The robot framework is an original keyword-driven framework widely used to automate software testing. It was developed in Python, allowing QA to create test cases and use the keywords built into this framework without resorting to programming. Using the Robot framework begins with downloading a particular library. Then, after installing, you can safely create personalized checks (test sets).
Our Testing Automation Tools
Our team offers you the most suitable automated software testing tools and solutions that reduce costs and improve the quality of your product. We thoroughly analyze various aspects of testing, such as scripting language, usability, testing of databases, images, and different types of testing, as well as frameworks, platforms, and technologies.
Selenium IDE is a convenient and affordable tool for automating web application testing that allows you to create and run automated tests, capturing and reproducing user actions, which works as an extension for Chrome and Firefox browsers and has a simple and intuitive interface. It is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) Selenium library built using XUL. The extension allows you to record, save and play scripts for testing web pages.
Appium is a free and open-source framework for testing the user interface of mobile applications. It helps to test native, hybrid, and web applications, conduct automated software testing on physical devices, uses an emulator and simulator, and also offers cross-platform application testing - a single API works for both Android and iOS platform
Allure Reporter is a multilingual open-source tool that allows you to flexibly build test reports that are useful for testers and developers and transparent for managers. Allure Reporter automatically sorts test results for bugs, defects, and broken tests and displays the result in TMS, bug tracker, or web report.
Docker is an open-source service for packaging, delivering, and running applications in an isolated container environment. The use of Docker containerization technologies provides some significant advantages for testing web applications, such as ensuring a uniform environment for running tests; independence from the parameters and settings of the system on which the tests are launched; reliability, reproducibility, and predictability of test results when they are run in different environments, etc.
Cucumber is an automated web application testing tool based on the Behavior Driven Development (BDD) approach. It allows you to write test scripts simply and understandably using the Gherkin language, which describes the expected behavior and results of the application and supports different programming languages such as Ruby, Java, Python, etc.
k6 is a free JavaScript web application, API performance, and load testing tool with a simple interface that allows you to create tests for various scenarios, including server response speed, API performance, etc. It also integrates with multiple testing tools such as CI/CD systems and Docker, collects and analyzes test results by various metrics, and generates reports for further analysis.
Automated Testing Process
Test Automation Tool Selection
Based on the application's functionality analysis, already available project, and test documentation, QA chooses the most appropriate tools for your project.
Definition of Automation Scope
Here we determine which tests are suitable for automation (if test documentation already exists) and which functions should be covered by tests. Otherwise, we should create test suits for automation first.
Test Automation Design and Development
At this stage, we create scenarios for automation and plan our work. The next step is writing scripts based on previously created scenarios.
Test Execution
When the automation scripts are ready, we run them and analyze the results.
Test Automation Efficiency Measurement
After the test, we evaluate the results on such indicators as the percentage of defects found, test coverage, repeatability of bugs in certain parts of the application, and others.
Test Maintenance
It is necessary to maintain the tests depending on the changes in the application itself. Those changes can be in locators, interface, functionality, etc.
Test Automation Setup Plan
01
Test automation planning
- Analysis of the features of your software to determine the optimal coverage of test automation.
- Suggestions on types and levels of automated testing.
- Create a test automation plan and integrate it into the project.
02
Test environment setup
- Choosing the right automated software testing tools and setting up your test automation environment.
- Installing and configuring appropriate testing tools.
03
Test data preparation
- Analysis of the specifics of your software and the characteristics of the data it processes (for example, the amount of data and the number of supported data formats) to automatically generate test data.
04
Automated testing
Based on the created test plan and chosen tools:
- We create test scenarios and test cases or use existing manual test documentation.
- We write appropriate test scripts.
- We run autotests on previously set-up environments.
- We analyze the results of automated testing and create bug reports.
- We maintain test automation scripts.
Our Test Automation Toolkit
Cucumber
Robot Framework
Selenium
webdriver.io
Cypress
Playwright
Appium
BrowserStack
SonarQube
BurpSuite
Owasp
Nmap
Nessus
OpenVAS
Metasploit
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
CircleCI
GitLab CI/CD
Jira
TestRail
Zephyr Scale
Katalon
Mantis
Bugzilla
Our Test Automation Engineers
Our QA lead controls the quality and efficiency of software test automation services, considering your specific requirements and project goals. This specialist is also responsible for risk, budget, and resource management during testing.
This person analyzes which tests are suitable for automation and which are not. He/she draws up a list of criteria for selecting tests to automate.
This person is introduces automation at the end and maintains the test coverage. Our test automation engineers are proficient in various automation technologies and systems and work closely with your development team to ensure project quality and efficiency
Why Choose Luxe Quality As Your Automation Testing Services Provider?
Our Recent Projects
Magora
Country: United Kingdom
Platforms: Mobile
Implementation time: March 2022 - Sept 2022 + is still supported
About project: Magora is a Web & Mobile Development Company that offers digital services to businesses across a broad range of industries.
- UI/UX, Localization, Microservices, Capability, and others Manual testing;
- Automation E2E testing TypeScript + Webdriver.io + Appium + BrowserStack
Adtron.io
Country: Germany
Platforms: Web
Implementation time: Nov 2021 – Jan 2022
About project: Adtron.io is a company that offers a wide range of opportunities to optimize the production of digital advertising and increase its productivity.
- Manual, Functional, Automation, Usability, Performance testing;
- Automation testing: JS + TestimIO
Property eye
Country: Netherlands
Platforms: Web and Mobile
Implementation time: Feb 2022 - present
About project: PropertEye is a smart all-in-one app that allows a private real estate investor to find, buy, rent, and manage suitable investments.
- Regression, Smoke, Sanitary Manual testing;
- Automation Functional testing: Java + Selenium + Cucumber
Client’s feedback
"The team's approach to project scheduling was excellent. Luxe Quality provided QA testing and development for a cellular network solutions firm. The team was responsible for automation scoping, development, execution testing, and maintenance and monitoring."
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