testRigor: The Next Wave of Functional Testing

On average in 2022, a project has only 30% of end-to-end tests automated. This is mostly due to the fact the majority of end-to-end testing systems rely on details of the implementation of a page – how engineers coded it. Details such as XPaths, CSS selectors, ids, data-test-ids, etc. As soon as those details change, the tests would break, even though from an end-user’s perspective nothing had changed. This, in turn, leads to a “maintenance saturation problem” where as few as just 300 end-to-end tests would consume 100% of the time of a QA engineer. In addition, in some of the cases, features are delayed significantly because engineers didn’t correctly understand the specification. testRigor solves this issue with its automated testing solution and by allowing to test purely from an end user’s perspective avoiding any use of details of implementation. In a nutshell, testRigor is a no-code test automation tool helping companies empower manual QA to build test automation via executable specifications in plain English up to 15X faster than with Selenium and spend almost no time maintaining tests.

Automation shines in any repetitive testing activities, as well as in non-functional testing such as load or performance. Unlike manual testing, which is prone to human mistakes, automation is much more reliable, and can even be used for monitoring in some cases. Another great benefit of automated testing with testRigor is time savings, as hundreds of test cases executed manually can take hours if not days, vs minutes, once automated.

Under the leadership of its CEO, Artem Golubev, testRigor brings revolution to UI-based end-to-end testing. It allows users to express test steps in plain English and executes them by emulating a human interacting with a web or mobile application. As a result, manual testers will be able to quickly and efficiently build functional end-to-end tests 15X faster. It is the only end-to-end testing system that allows testing purely from an end user’s perspective, thus empowering manual testers to build complex tests and solve test maintenance problems. testRigor runs a combination of NLP and parser to be able to understand specific commands like click and enter data, and customers can construct “functions” with names representing the phrases that they use in their test cases.  “Our team of engineers and data scientists created testRigor for fast-moving startups in industries where the fact that the app can perform essential functions is important. Error-free functionality keeps your users on your site and making transactions. We’re committed to helping developers and QA teams to use the power of machine learning to push the boundaries of software testing,” explains Artem Golubev, Co-Founder, and CEO, testRigor.

Testing from the End-users Point of View

What makes testRigor stand out is its unique ability to test from the end-users point of view with 200X less maintenance. This is a new breed of manual-QA-friendly test automation for functional UI exploratory and regression testing, made for any web or mobile application. This way, developers can constantly learn from user activity in production. Moreover, testRigor automatically assesses if a page looks broken to a human. It effectively utilizes the actions of users in production to cover the most important and most frequently used functionality. As testRigor learns from real user actions, it improves test coverage and catches more issues before they get to production. As a result, it is possible to achieve CI/CD more effectively by prioritizing the most often used functionality. For executives and product leaders, the solution enables them to test and ship faster while ensuring product credibility for each release. The built-in increased testing script stability allows peace of mind with ample test coverage, minimal maintenance, and management. This also helps to shorten dev cycles and focus on shipping great products faster.

The unique solution also enables for drastically more robust tests. To give you an example, even if the underlying browser would crash during the test execution – testRigor would catch that, span a new browser instance, and then re-run the test without throwing an error. .. Tests are also automatically grouped by elements – which saves huge amounts of time when these elements change and need to be updated. This way, businesses will only have to spend 200X less time on test maintenance with advanced maintenance-related tools and infrastructure stability with reasonable retries. Another interesting feature is the power of integrated AI by common apps and industry data. It is trained on tens of thousands of industry-leading websites and applications. The solution creates tests based on an extensive database of common and industry-specific rules. Users can also seamlessly customize the rules to include any application-specific functions as needed.

Automated and Streamlined Testing

On a closer note, testRigor is an autonomous, low-maintenance, ultra-stable functional UI functional and non-functional testing solution that reduces grunt work and accelerates delivery. Since opening its doors, the company has been on a mission to reduce QA overhead, lead to more efficient QA teams, and help companies scale painlessly. There were several instances where testRigor assisted businesses across the globe to streamline their testing operations effectively. At one company, for instance, rolling out a new UI framework rendered all existing end-to-end tests obsolete and useless, which defeats the whole purpose of end-to-end tests. At another company, they have more than One Million end-to-end tests, out of which up to 80% fail close to each release. “testRigor has a way for its customers to use analytics of how their users use their software in their production to seamlessly generate end-to-end tests,” adds Golubev.

In another instance, partnering with testRigor allowed IDT Corporation, a business that pioneered technologies and services that enable people and businesses around the world to collaborate and share more fluently and affordably, to accelerate their tests quickly. testRigor significantly improved the time it took to create tests by allowing IDT’s QA team to test new features, run regression tests, and create new tests without delaying the release. In the end, testRigor was the only product that came with both user-friendliness and the required capabilities. IDT rebuilt from scratch automated test cases to 91% automated test cases in under 9 months. They were no longer stuck at 50% coverage. Currently, IDT has 18,563 automation tests built with only 1,829 test cases left to go. Partnering with testRigor also led to much faster test creation and less maintenance.

Building Stable Automation

Since its inception, testRigor’s mission has been to empower all members of the team to quickly build stable test automation. The company also has a dedicated team of experts to help clients enable a smoother onboarding process. As a user signs in, a testRigor specialist will walk the user through its platform with a custom demo.

In the long run, the company has a clear road map and expansion plans to create a difference in the software testing solutions space. “testRigor will work on making testing as easy as it is technically possible for our customers by employing anything possible in AI and algorithms. We are also releasing Load Testing publicly within the next 2 months,” concludes Golubev.