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Mobile App-Only Approach Causing 10% Loss In Sales

Kritika — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 09:40:05 +0000

“57% of mobile app users churn and no longer use the app one month after they downloaded it.” — Localytics

In the past couple of years, mobile devices have taken over the consumer world. However, in a recent survey conducted by Localytics, it was found that the consumers’ behavior is different while using a mobile app and mobile web. It is a common misconception that consumers automatically prefer apps over mobile websites. The reality is that mobile consumers are driven by need and convenience, regardless of what platform they use.

Adjust analyzed 8 billion app installations worldwide and discovered that apps get deleted 5.8 days after they’re last used on an average. Mobile apps achieve half of their lifetime usage in the first six months. Then it’s all downhill from there.

Abandonment among app users tends to be exceptionally high, especially for a relatively new business fighting against the odds. A rapidly rising app fatigue makes it harder to manage churns, decreasing retention rates and adding to app makers’ worries. Within three days of being installed, the average app loses 77% of its daily active users. Within 30 days, this number increases to 90%. Within 90 days, this number reaches up to a staggering 95%.

If mobile apps make it so much harder to make profits, why are so many businesses abandoning the mobile web?

App developers may have a chance to work their magic, but the reality leans toward the mobile web. For a much more significant effort, businesses see less than a third of the conversions from apps than they see from mobile websites. Additionally, designing a mobile app may be a massive investment for budding businesses. In comparison, building a tremendous mobile-friendly website may be much more affordable.

If you already have a mobile app but with high churn rates, remarketing might not be an easy option here. The process of retargeting former app owners and ensuring they reinstall is far more complex than having a user revisit your website. Retargeting techniques such as push notifications aiming to get users to open preinstalled apps also tend to fall on deaf ears.

An analysis by BizRate shows that 19% of people are shopping on mobile-optimized websites, while only 3.6% of shoppers download shopping apps.

With more than 50% of the global traffic coming in from the mobile web, creating memorable mobile web experiences is more scalable for business. There are numerous cases of companies skyrocketing after redesigning their mobile websites. Jumia, a leading e-commerce website in Africa, decided to deliver an app-like experience to its users with a PWA (progressive web app). Their PWA was built integrated across functions and resulted in a 33% higher conversion rate. Additionally, they saw a decline of 50% in their bounce rates and 12 times more users than native mobile apps. Lancôme is another success story of successfully optimizing their website for mobiles and driving conversions by 17%.

So the question is, should you restrict your mobile audience to apps only? Or should you rather focus on optimizing a mobile-friendly web experience.?

To help you make the best decision for your business, we will dive deep into the entire saga of mobile app vs. mobile web. We will find out how a mobile-app only approach affects businesses.

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How Mobile-App Strategy Fares For Businesses

Flipkart and Myntra, two of India’s leading eCommerce platforms, grabbed many eyeballs in 2016 by announcing an app-only model. They claimed to be the very first web-based platforms in the world to adopt an app-only route. While this news did get them much attention worldwide, the mobile app-only strategy did not pan out so well. Flipkart lost its lead in the e-Commerce market, and Myntra saw a dip of 10% in its sales.

As soon as Flipkart announced its app-only strategy, its global rival Amazon started rolling in the hay. This provided them with the perfect opportunity to gain the upper hand and get ahead in the game. And that’s what happened! Flipkart’s sales started dropping down (though they never accepted it), and Amazon’s business boomed up. While Flipkart was busy fiddling with its mobile-app only strategy, Amazon became the top eCommerce platform in India. This happened although Flipkart was founded in 2007, while Amazon came into India in 2013.

Amazon even went on to issue full-page advertisements in newspapers, thanking their customers for making it the most visited e-commerce site in India!

Peeyush Ranjan, then Engineering Head at Flipkart, said that going app-only was not a wise decision. Here’s what he had to say, “Apps also have their weaknesses. You have to download them, and you have to keep updating. Our mobile web app offers the benefits and superior experience of the app without the limitations. We will get a bunch of new users through the mobile web who don’t have our app installed.”

The apple didn’t fall far from the tree. Myntra suffered the same fate. It started losing many users who preferred to shop on a browser rather than an app.

Here’s how Myntra’s sales were affected after the app-only launch.

“Cutting off a channel doesn’t make sense unless the channel costs were exceeding benefits or the use of that channel was resulting in wrong positioning. Myntra’s app-only strategy certainly got them some media attention but didn’t seem to have served a business purpose.” — Rishikesha T Krishnan, Director of Indian Institute of Management Bangalore. Source (Knowledge@Wharton)

Initially, the founders were committed to the app-only strategy. They were confident that the mobile website would push users towards the app. Here’s what happened instead- within a few months, both the platforms backtracked on their decisions. Flipkart soon launched a ‘lite’ version of its website, and Myntra relaunched its mobile website.

Before the app-only fiasco, Flipkart specifically partnered with Google to build a mobile website for Google Chrome. They wanted to replicate the features of its app and retain the benefit of the mobile web view. This was how Flipkart tried to make up for the lost revenue. Since the website relaunch, Myntra’s mobile website gets an average of 1.5 million daily mobile web visits. Additionally, their website’s average time spent went up from less than a minute to five minutes or more.

Mobile web app was the winner at the end of the day!

Reasons Why Mobile-App Only Strategy Can Fail You

Shutting down a website and going the app-only way is now considered the ‘most consumer-unfriendly idea’ and rightfully so. By having a user-friendly website, you cater to an ever-growing number of smartphone users and take care of desktop users. By going the app-only way, you are simply neglecting the masses who may not have the smartphone capable of running multiple apps at a time. There are numerous reasons why the mobile app-only strategy is bound to fail.

Minimal Reach

Mobile is the dominant medium of consumption. As a user, how many times do you transact with an e-commerce app or any app in general? If you think about it, an average user doesn’t transact more than a couple of times a month on an app. They are bound to open up a website first, explore your products, and consider installing your mobile app. You cannot expect a user to change their behavior simply to access your mobile app.

According to Statista, more than 100,000 new Android apps and 30,000 new iOS apps are released in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store every month. This makes it harder for you to reach a wider audience. You cannot expect them to install a separate app for every new product they come across. A mobile-friendly web app is an easier way to reach them.

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Limited Engagement

There are two reasons why engagement is expected to over-index on Smartphones: the presence of an app’s shortcut on the user’s home screen and push notifications. Businesses often assume that engagement is a given once a user has installed their app, yet that’s not the case. You might be sending out 3–4 push notifications every day, but the conversion efficiency might be dropping down. They don’t realize that firstly, the mobile app might be taking up extra storage space, and the user might decide to free up that space any day. Secondly, push notifications might irritate users and can even be considered spam by smart wearables like an Apple watch, thus completely blocking them.

A more innovative way to approach this is by encouraging users to get on your web app and ensuring that they see the best version of your web app. In 2015, Cleartrip redesigned its mobile website. The idea behind this redesign was to provide a consistent experience across desktop and mobile web. Simply put, the mobile web is one of the fastest and easiest ways to reach your potential customers. Without taking on the arduous task of developing a mobile app, all you need to do is maintain an excellent mobile user experience.

Slashed Conversions

Innovation is always the way to move ahead of the competition. But innovation must be driven by putting the consumer first. You must go where the customer is. You must make your business flexible enough for them to buy anywhere, anytime, and on any platform or device. But, a mobile app can be a huge hindrance when it comes to converting those customers.

Factoring in Customer Acquisition Cost (CAC), the cost of convincing a potential customer to browse your website & potential make a purchase is very different from convincing a customer to install a mobile app & then make a purchase. It is much easier to get a user on your website than installing your app.

The lion’s share of new smartphone users will always come from your website, and they will convert only if have a mobile friendly website. Otherwise, you might end up losing them forever.
“Although an app-only approach might be a fit for certain unique business models, the majority of businesses would not be served well going that route.” — Tom Nawara, The VP of Acquity Group (Source: MarketingDive)

Overreaching Development Efforts

Mobile apps need to be built for specific platforms, be it iOS or Android. This means building each app from scratch requiring significant development efforts. They live and run on the device itself and need constant updating and maintenance to keep bugs at bay. All this amounts to a significant overhead for your business. Even if you make it so far, it may turn out to be quite a challenge to get your app approved by app stores.

On the other hand, web apps can be accessed via any mobile device with a browser installed. They don’t have to be downloaded or installed. They can automatically adapt to the user’s device, given that you take care of cross browser compatibility. Regardless of the platform a web app is accessed on, the codebase is standard, making it easier to build and update. You don’t even have to wait for any approval. You build it; you launch it.

If appropriately designed, web apps can be made to look and feel like a native mobile app. Take a look at Airbnb’s native and web app. They might be two different products, but they are almost the same and can give the same excellent results!

Laborious Web Testing

Testing a mobile app is way more complicated than testing a web app. From hiring specialists to investing more in the infrastructure, mobile app testing can sum up to a massive overhead for your business. That’s not even considering the general maintenance of a mobile app.

On the other hand, testing a web app or a mobile-friendly website is much simpler and achievable. Instead of investing a lot, you can simply go for cloud testing and check how your web app performs across a plethora of browsers or devices. LT Browser is one such browser for developers that allows you to build and test the responsiveness of your website or web-app across 50+ devices.

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Mobile Web App Trumps All!

It is time to acknowledge that mobile web apps have a significant impact on your business. Instead of focusing on the technicalities, brands should focus on creating value for their users. Users who are on their mobile for most of their day. Users who want to browse and shop but might try to avoid installing an app for doing so.

After all this, Myntra still managed to increase its user engagement by going back to its website. According to Techniasia, 68 percent of Myntra’s customers are now viewing the site on mobile. You can do it too and more successfully!

“Even if the mobile-only strategy didn’t work, I suspect that mobile-first is still the way to go.” — Kartik Hosanagar, Professor of Technology and Digital Business at the Wharton School. Source (Knowledge@Wharton)

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Increasing Product Release Velocity by Debugging and Testing In Production

Kritika — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 07:53:23 +0000

What is the key to achieving sustainable and dramatic speed gains for your business? Product velocity! It’s important to stay on top of changes in your quality metrics, and to modify your processes (if needed) so that they reflect current reality. The pace of delivery will increase when you foster simple, automated processes for building great software. The faster you push into production, the sooner you can learn and adapt. Monitoring your build and release pipeline is an important part of those efforts. It helps you design better software, which in turn leads to improved product velocity. Moving fast takes a lot of practice, a lot of hard work, and a toolkit that can help you achieve this!

Here’s a secret sauce for all agile processes-

Always ship fast, always have a plan for what’s next, and never compromise on quality.

Easier said than done right?

Well that’s what we’re here for! We understand that the debugging process is tedious and annoying, but we will continuously work toward making your developer experience seamless. With this in mind, our Product & Growth Manager Harshit Paul got together with Idan Shatz, Developer Advocate at Ozcode to explain how both testing in production and production debugging can help expedite your product release velocity. In case you missed the power-packed webinar, let us look at the major highlights of the event.

About Ozcode

Based out of Israel, Ozcode is simplifying and disrupting how developers debug issues across all C# and .NET applications. They have a super-talented team of engineers and their team leads with the visibility and insights needed to unleash productivity. The result — Improvement in software delivery at all stages of the SDLC by slashing debugging time to a great extent.

Here’s a little bit about what they do-

Ozcode’s Production Debugger is the only data-driven debugging platform that puts production data in the hands of the developers so they can short-circuit the loop between finding errors in production and fixing them in code.
Ozcode’s Visual Studio extension dramatically enhances your Visual Studio debugging experience enabling you to quickly find the root cause of bugs in .NET applications and fix them at a faster pace. Production Debugger has surely closed the gap between observability and debugging, providing unmatched capabilities to fix errors in QA, staging, and production environments.
By providing code-level observability into running code at exactly the time and place where errors occur, Ozcode provides the insights needed to resolve errors quickly. This helps in shortening the release cycles.
From Developers and team leads to QA professionals and DevOps/SREs to business executives, Ozcode establishes accountability and provides all stakeholders with the visibility needed to accelerate software delivery for C# and .NET.

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About the Webinar

This insightful webinar was hosted by Harshit Paul- Product & Growth Manager at LambdaTest. Ozcode was represented by Idan Shatz, Developer Advocate. Idan Shatz is a Software Quality Evangelist with more than 20 years of experience in programming and software testing. Having served in roles ranging from CTO, VP of Product Development to Team Lead, Idan specializes in distributed testing environments and building developer tools.

Now that you know who the speakers are, it’s time to acquaint yourself with the ins and outs of the webinar.

The session started off with Harshit and Idan highlighting the roadblocks to release velocity and the need to ensure the production and staging are mirroring and complementing each other. Together they explained the roadblocks like difficulty to reproduce and debug issues, lack of automation, flaky tests etc.

Roadblocks to Release Velocity

When it comes to cross browser testing, an in-house infrastructure is too time-consuming and expensive due to maintenance issues. There are so many devices that are being launched every month by different brands and your customers could come up to your website from any device or operating system or browser. You have to make sure that the setup is in place to give you good test coverage for your automation suites.

That’s not all. There are a number of roadblocks that might turn out to be a hindrance to your release cycles. Harshit listed them all out and entailed the why and how of each issue-

Communication gap between Developers & QA Engineers.
Difference between staging and production environments.
Irreproducible bugs.
Lack of automation.
Lack of bug prioritization.
Flaky tests.
Debugging issues in production.

Idan also stressed upon the importance of proper communication between developers and QA engineers. It is best to avoid a back and forth situation where one reproduces a bug while the other might ignore it. It is essential to have good tools that would help QA deliver the information that Devs need in order to resolve the issue.

Furthermore, Idan goes on to talk about bugs that are considered to be ‘urban legends’ by a lot of companies since they are very hard to reproduce. This is a major limitation for your velocity!

How quickly can you reproduce the issues that happen in QA or to a user in production?

Harshit goes to explain how automation plays a major role in increasing your release velocity. If you’re not leveraging your automation testing suite or it is not as big as you would want it to be, it is going to slow down your entire release cycle. Every time you push something, it has to go through the same process of regression testing and this happens over & over, which not only takes more time but also reduces the tester’s efficiency.

In order to avoid this, it is important to have an impactful automation testing suite that provides good coverage like a regression side. This way, you not only relieve your testers from repeating the monotonous test cases but also give them enough bandwidth to find those critical edge cases which can help you move faster in the right direction.

While automation offers a chance to increase your product release velocity, there’s a catch — flaky tests. There might be times when something is working today but it might not work tomorrow. You may also come across false positives or false negatives or an inconsistent test suite which just adds up to your team’s bandwidth. Here are the major reasons for test flakiness-

Script incompatibility with the preferred test framework.
System breakdown due to probable incompatibility between various libraries and frameworks when put together.
Operating system dependency.

Harshit then went on to demonstrate how LambdaTest and OzCode can help avoid all these issues and thus accelerate your product release velocity. He demonstrated what LambdaTest does and the features it offers for your web testing needs.

After that, Idan gave an overview of OzCode and how to leverage the OzCode platform for live-debugging without making code changes on the server-side.

It’s the duality between LambdaTest and OZcode that makes it easy to increase your product release velocity as Ozcode would give you the insights of what happened on your server while LambdaTest gives you an army of devices to perform browser compatibility testing.

Together Harshit & Idan presented the demos of velocity barriers from the testing — stage to production environment.

The demos highlighted solving cross-browser issues, solving issues end-to-end (E2E), and solving issues in production. Finally, they talked about the best practices to boost the release velocity.

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Best Practices to Boost Release Velocity

Before jumping into the Q&A session, Harshit and Idan listed down the best practices for boosting product release velocity:

Increase your browser test coverage to cater to a wide spectrum of users.
Close communication gap between Devs & QAs.
Leverage the potential of cloud (wherever possible).
Don’t reproduce — record errors with code level observability.
Follow Shift-left testing.
Bug Prioritization — measure bug metrics + estimate effort.
Keep your Staging environment closely identical to the Production environment, whenever possible.
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Q&A Session

Before wrapping up, Harshit & Idan answered a number of questions raised by the viewers. Here are some of the insightful questions:

Does Ozcode support all language compatibility?

Idan- Currently, we support C# features. We now have a private Beta for supporting Java language and by the end of the year, we’re aiming to have Python and OJS.

Can we upload Visual Studio automation script in LambdaTest dashboard and get it executed?

Harshit- You cannot upload automation scripts into the LambdaTest dashboard because what we provide is an execution platform and that’s actually the beauty of it. So you have all the code you need in your machine with the right IDE setup. You can run it from cloud-based IDEs and with GitPod, etc. Once you run it from any IDE or your own setup, it will pass that value to Selenium which is the end-point of test execution. All you need to do in your normal Selenium script is just define the username and access key which you will find on the LambdaTest dashboard to access the capabilities offered by the LambdaTest platform.

Under automation testing, do you provide frameworks with utilities for DB comparison, Excel read write etc.?

Harshit- If you’re referring to Behavior Driven Testing (BDD), you can surely do that with LambdaTest. If you have test data in an Excel sheet, you can perform data driven testing or behavior driven testing with Selenium, on the LambdaTest platform. All the test-automation frameworks compatible with Selenium are compatible with LambdaTest as well. You just need to use Remote Selenium WebDriver instead of local Selenium WebDriver, something that was demonstrated earlier.

Idan- What I really like about the entire setup is that LambdaTest enhances the capabilities of Selenium for improved test coverage. I believe your questions sound to me more like an integration test where you run some commands on your system and then you validate that the database is correct. So those two things would just work amazingly.

The only thing that I would like to suggest here is don’t use parallel testing because when you’re comparing the database, usually you need to have Setup and Teardown functions to maintain the database state machine properly. Hence, running those tests in parallel should improve the robustness of the tests . Besides, there is good integration between other third-party tools for doing this.

What happens if the front-end and back-end are developed using two different programming languages? Can Ozcode detect if it’s a back-end issue?

Idan- It doesn’t really matter what front-end language you’re using. If the Ozcode agent is supporting the back-end, it will just monitor all the exceptions that happen there automatically. If there is an issue or maybe if the user didn’t know about the occurrence of the issue (or exception), you will be able to see the list of those exceptions with full-time recording. The user can then dig deep to see what’s going on. Later on when Java comes onboard at the Ozcode platform, you will also be able to debug when you have a cluster that is written in different languages.

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Hope You Enjoyed The Webinar!

I hope you liked the webinar. In case you missed it, please find the recording of the Webinar above. Make sure to share this article with anyone who wants to learn more about mobile-first testing. Stay tuned for more exciting webinars. You can also subscribe to our newsletter Coding Jag to stay on top of everything testing and more!

That’s all for now, happy testing!

Reduce Customer Churn & Drive Engagement With Intuitive Mobile UX

Kritika — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 08:33:00 +0000

Reduce Customer Churn & Drive Engagement With Intuitive Mobile UX

“More than 88% of online shoppers say they are unlikely to return to a website after a bad user experience.”

User experience is the guiding principle for consumer-first businesses. Many business leaders would concur with the famous quote by Frank Chimero, “People ignore design that ignores people.” This statement holds relatively true for UX.

Given the importance of UX, it is essential to think hard and plan ahead of time about your website’s look and feel. The challenge is that your users can view your website from ‘any’ device. And the complexity of design grows manifold considering the plethora of devices available in the market, especially mobile.

The ubiquity of mobiles has revolutionized the way we access the web.

A website’s mobile UX is the first source of impression around a brand to most of its users. As a business leader, you would want to capitalize on the first touchpoint to leave an everlasting impression.

Here we talk about the key elements to create an intuitive mobile UX — a secret weapon to create a ‘WOWsome’ user experience.

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What Makes A Good Mobile Experience?

Mobiles have become such an integral part of our lives that users expect every business to offer a tailored & personalized user experience. From smooth scrolling, responsive images, contrasting CTAs to page load speed, browser compatibility, accessibility, etc., there are lots of boxes to tick from your responsive web design checklist.

“89% of people are likely to recommend a brand after a positive brand experience on mobile.”

The million-dollar question is — What makes a winning mobile UX?

Findability Precedes Usability

“88% of online shoppers say they wouldn’t return to a website after having a bad user experience.
70% of online businesses that fail do so because of bad usability.”

The user journey must be as seamless and as effortless as it can be! It is recommended that your website should have a minimum number of taps for any user journey.

Divide your website’s feature interactions into smaller & meaningful user stories. Test usability for each interaction and minimize the steps wherever possible.

Need for Speed!

How quickly your website loads directly impacts the number of deals you’re able to close. A 3 second loading time leads to a bounce rate of 32%, while a 5 second load time leads to 90%. Incorporating a CDN (Content Delivery Network) for all your web content can help you drive your site in the fast lane.

Today’s users expect mobility and excellent mobile UX. You gotta test everything!

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Visual Appeal akin to WYSIWYG

“38% will stop engaging with a website if they find it unattractive.”

What you see is what sells. 😄 A visually appealing UI helps lower bounce rate, drives better engagement, and increases your website’s stickiness quotient. It goes without saying that selling something that doesn’t look appealing will be an arduous task.

Here are the elements that help in creating an eye-catching visual experience for the mobile web.

Responsive Web Design

The way your website is rendered on a desktop device is entirely different from how it appears on a mobile device (Check how to test on mobile devices?). The screen size, resolution, viewports, and operating systems might lead to a UI anomaly.

The one-size-fits-all approach is not applicable, as the nuances of engagement, context, and intention vary from one device to another.

It is essential to have a responsive web design to make the mobile experience worthwhile for your mobile users.

Less Is More

A study from Microsoft indicated that online businesses have around 8 seconds (no longer than a goldfish can concentrate on something) to retain their user’s attention. This was way back in 2015!

Imagine if Microsoft were to reconduct the study today, it wouldn’t be surprising to find a shorter time span for user’s attention. So you have an extremely narrow window to convey a lot about your product. The best way to do so is to embrace minimalism in design & content — and relay the things that matter the most.

Inclusion of too many elements on the web page can lead to cognitive overload, which can be a damper to the user experience. The idea is to embrace minimalism for delivering a delightful experience to the audience. Using white spaces removes unnecessary complications and unnecessary hurdles in the user journey.

The catch about whitespaces is they need not be white in color. The design team can experiment with different color palettes, grid layouts, and typography to make the design more catchy without sacrificing the core principles of minimalism in mobile UX design.

Here is how Nike is bossing it!

Hat Tip — To clear out the clutter, take the Squint Test. If you squint your eyes while looking at your site, the most important things should stand out first, and the least important things should stand out last.

Mind The Thumb Zone

On mobile UX, you don’t get a mouse pointer; instead, you work with your fingers and mostly the thumb, which covers a lot of real estate. As per Steven Hoober’s research, close to 49% of smartphone users rely exclusively on their thumbs to do things on their phones.

Your design team may need to re-evaluate the size of buttons on mobile UX.

Go Easy With The Navigation

“It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is Time.”

Your users are looking out for a potential solution on your website; it is for you to ensure that they get the answers as quickly as possible — and the website’s navigation plays a crucial role in shortening the route to their destination.

An intuitive mobile UX makes use of a hamburger menu and relatable home icons. Intuitiveness simplifies the user journey, thereby enabling them to perform subsequent actions in the shortest possible time.

Placement of elements like the navigation bar, search bar, hamburger menus, etc., lays the foundation of the user journey. Focus on breezy onboarding and ease of navigation so that the user finds the relevant information in the least possible clicks!

Let us take a look at how Intercom does it.

Deliver A Cross Browser Compatible Mobile Experience!

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Even though your website renders seamless across various mobile resolutions, screen sizes, operating systems, it doesn’t guarantee its browser compatibility!

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Personalization Goes a Long Way

Personalization can be considered as the cornerstone of providing an awesome customer experience. As per Gartner, though personalization holds greater relevance when it comes to B2C businesses, personalization in B2B businesses is also gaining pace.

B2B businesses can close deals faster by connecting with users at different stages of the buyer journey, predicting their actions and delivering them ultra-relevant offers.

Hyper-personalization can help you build brand loyalty, decrease customer churn and increase the LTV(Lifetime Value).

Accelerate User Engagement with PWAs

App-only strategy has been a debatable topic since the time it was implemented by a few online enterprises. It wouldn’t be fair to assume that a mobile app is the only way you could serve your customers.

“57% of mobile app users churn and no longer use the app one month after they downloaded it”

A significant chunk of your customers might be browsing your website on a mobile browser, you are sure to lose this traffic by going the ‘app-only route’. It is no brainer that Mobile app-only approach is causing 10% loss in sales and your business can go downhill by deploying this strategy.

Instead, it’s better to build a mobile-optimized website or better yet — a Progressive Web App (PWA).

Progressive Web Apps are all set to lead the app-less revolution.

As per Applify:

Ride-hailing giant Uber reaped immense benefits from PWA as its PWA could load in 3 seconds flat on 2G connectivity.
Online dating giant Tinder created a PWA that was 90 percent smaller in size than its native equivalent. This resulted in a decrease in the load time from 11.91 seconds to 4.69 seconds. Increased user-engagement was a given with Tinder’s PWA strategy!

With PWA, OTA Trivago’s click-out rate increased by 97%, along with a rise in user engagement by 150 percent.

Long story short, if you wish to increase user engagement and decrease user churn, PWA is the way to go!

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Wrapping Up!

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It’s essential to understand the critical elements of an excellent mobile UX before you can provide your users with relevant and frictionless mobile experience.

Finally, you are at the last mile to tick all the items in the responsive web design checklist! Consistency across the plethora of mobile devices will help you transit from a good user-experience to a WOWsome user experience.

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Happy testing!

Webinar: Mobile-First Approach and Testing

Kritika — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 11:19:44 +0000

Innovations in technology have driven the mobile-first approach, emerging as a new approach to exponentially growing mobile traffic. It is an initiative that empowers organizations to increase their mobile visibility through designing a website for the smallest screen first, ensuring a seamless experience for users whatever device they are on.

With the mobile-first approach, enterprises consider the browsing and shopping needs who access services and products from their mobile devices. As more users rely on their phones, the mobile-first approach is an increasingly significant aspect for businesses to invest in. Mobile-friendly websites help companies to retain customers and engage potential customers more effectively. Many factors will help you decide on the approach to take to ensure your future growth. A mobile-first approach’s success relies on how only the most valuable features are offered to mobile users with a carefully planned testing regime shaped by agile teams who are always ready to adapt.

LambdaTest got together with Applitools to discuss the mobile-first approach’s benefits and address this evolving need to support their mobile-first testing needs. In case you missed the Webinar, let us look at the major highlights of the event.

About Applitools

Applitools, based in California, has created a vast tool-stack to solve the automated visual UI testing problem. Their products include:

AI-powered computer vision algorithms that simulate the human eye and brain analyze entire application pages, reporting only differences visible with the naked eye.
A wide selection of SDKs that allow engineers and testers to easily incorporate visual checks into existing tests.
Cloud-based and on-premises services that are able to process and store massive amounts of screenshots at an infinite scale.
A sophisticated web application allows you to compare test results, zoom-in directly on visual changes, and then group similar results to only see unique ones.
Integrations with the leading CI platforms, issue trackers and collaboration services.

Automated Functional Testing tests helps to ensure that your web app works as it was intented to. Learn more about functional tests, and how automating them can give you a faster release cycle.

About The Webinar

This insightful webinar was hosted by Mudit Singh- the Director of Product & Growth at LambdaTest. Applitools was represented by Anand Bagmar- the Quality Evangelist & Solution Architect at Applitools. Anand Bagmar is a Software Quality Evangelist with more than 20 years of experience with companies like Microsoft, ThoughtWorks. Anand is passionate about shipping a quality product, specializing in Product Quality strategy & execution, and building automated testing tools, infrastructure, and frameworks.

Now that you know who the speakers are, it’s time to acquaint yourself with the ins and outs of the webinar.

Amongst the global population of 7.83 billion, there are about 5.2 billion unique mobile phone users, of which 4.466 billion users use the internet (source- Data Reportal). The growth of smartphone usage has been increasing tremendously year over year, and Anand strongly believes that we need to start thinking about a mobile-first strategy for building products. Not just that, this approach should also be implemented while testing the products that we are releasing.

Anand emphasized the following key pointers:

What Is The Mobile-First Approach & How To Start It?

According to Anand, the mobile-first approach involves thinking about your product and your features first regarding how you can make it available for your end-users on mobile devices instead of the traditional approach where you’re releasing websites desktop-based applications.

To begin with, you have to think about the following questions:

Where does your product belong? In which domain is it fitting?
Who are your target users?
In which region or geography are they based?
What platform are they on?

All these aspects will be essential for deciding whether it makes sense for you to go mobile-first or go with the traditional approach. The context of each product can make this decision look in a very different direction.

Based on the questions above, if you decide to take this further from a mobile perspective, the next step is to consider the spread of operating systems for your users when they access the internet. As you can see from the stats taken from Statista below, the majority is on the Android ecosystem. There is a substantial presence of iOS devices.

Furthermore, there is a preference for devices or operating systems for mobile devices in different geographies. For example, Japan prefers iOS compared to Android, while China prefers Android over iOS. This matters because depending on your product’s target audience, you need to focus your energies and cater to the OS or platform that gives more value to your users and eventually gives more value for your product.

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How To Select Between A Native App And Mobile Web?

Another aspect to keep in mind is choosing between native apps and mobile web apps. Mobile web can help you scale easier and faster across different types of devices. It will also eventually/simultaneously take you to the web and desktop users. But there are criteria that you need to think about- it’s not just about the ease of use. You also need to think about the kind of mobile user experience you provide for your offering feature set. Furthermore, consider how they will be able to get more value from what your product is offering.

Native or mobile web can add a different set of complexities. Regardless of what you choose, the important thing is to understand that mobile is the place to start. With so much focus on handheld devices, you also need to think about testing and automation for this mobile-first approach.

Key Differences Between Web And App Testing Approaches

This is not the standard testing that you’ll be performing. You cannot apply the same principles, practices, or strategy of testing on the desktop for your mobile applications (and mobile application testing) as well. You have to understand the ecosystem, and you have to think differently.

Some of the key differences when it comes to approaching testing web apps and native apps:

Interactions
Device Features & Capabilities
Form Factors (sizes, rotations)
M-Browsers Vs. Native
OS versions and compatibility with hardware
Hardware
Battery
CPU/GPU
Memory
Impact due to External Factors
Network fluctuations & variations when on the move
Temperature/Humidity/Moisture
Interruptions
Release Approach

Difference between Web and App Release Approaches

Rollback– You can achieve rollback relatively quickly in a web and mobile web context. But in native apps, it is just not possible. Once you do a release on your native app and get the application on their device, there is no way you can get it back.
Upgrade Scenarios (OS flavors)– For native apps, you can think about upgrades or pushing out hotfixes and forcing people to upgrade, but it is still the individual’s choice. If they want to upgrade to the new version of the app, they will. In other cases, they would rather uninstall the app instead of being forced to upgrade to a recent version. So you have to be very careful when you’re doing the production release- a final release, whether it’s the staged rollout or not.

Is this something that you want to release?
How confident are you about that, knowing that you cannot pull it back?
External Approvals– As long as your team is good with doing the release, you can go ahead and proceed with the release for mobile apps. But that’s not the case for native mobile apps. For example, if you’re releasing through App Store or Google Play Store, you have to go through their approval process (which can be anything between one hour to a week).
Deployment Size– The deployment size doesn’t necessarily matter in web or mobile web apps. Yes, the page size or the page load does matter, not as much as the app size. As we saw above, many operating systems are being used as of now, including older versions. This has got a massive limitation of how much data/memory will be on older devices. So you have to think about the deployment size and the compliance, including browser compliance, stock OS & custom OS hardware limitations.

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What Is The Mobile Testing Pyramid?

The mobile testing pyramid is an excellent way to begin thinking from a mobile testing perspective.

But that’s not all! Anand further dives deeper into the testing puzzle and tries to answer, ‘Why do bugs still escape?’ He then demonstrated the Visual AI on the Applitools platform to integrate functional testing and visual testing and get maximum value for the efforts we put in functional automation testing.

After an in-depth presentation and demonstration of Applitools, Mudit Singh highlighted the importance of mobile apps and mobile web apps to get a solid presence across both. He emphasized why the mobile web is an essential aspect of reaching your mobile audience and how LambdaTest caters to mobile web testing needs by offering a cloud-based device lab of 3000+ browser and OS combinations. Mudit then explained what LambdaTest does and how to leverage LambdaTest with Applitools for your visual regression testing.

Finally, the session ended with a Q&A round.

Hope You Enjoyed The Webinar!

That’s all for now, happy testing!

Now Run Your Cypress Tests On LambdaTest

Kritika — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 16:22:18 +0000

Howdy techies and LambdaTest customers! In our continuous endeavor to empower the QA community, we are elated to bring Cypress framework support on LambdaTest automation testing cloud!!

You read it right! You can now accelerate automation testing by leveraging the enormous capabilities offered by Cypress CLI on LambdaTest!

For the uninitiated ones, Cypress is a wonderful testing framework designed for modern web development and testing. Released in late 2017, as a much faster alternative to the Selenium Automation testing tool, Cypress makes end-to-end automation tests easy and fun. It is one of the few frameworks that discarded traditional WebDriver-based web automation and operates directly on the browsers leveraging browser APIs. This combined with its capability to run on headless browsers makes running Cypress tests super fast.

After last year’s release, Cypress currently supports Chromium family browsers like Chrome, Electron, and now Edge, as well as Firefox. In other words, Cypress now has cross browser support. You may guess where we are going with this.

LambdaTest now has native support for running Cypress based cross browser tests. And not only that, you can run these tests at a scale by running them parallelly across multiple browser environments and thereby reducing your testing times.

Curious to know how Cypress CLI on LambdaTest adds scalability and reliability to your Cypress tests? Let’s find out more!

Starting your journey with Cypress Testing? Check out how you can test your Cypress test scripts on LambdaTest’s online cloud.

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Supported Browsers & Operating Systems

As a Cypress user, you may ask why choose LambdaTest when the built-in Cypress dashboard is so powerful? Imagine burning dollars on setting up an in-house Grid infrastructure that would require recursive pumping of dollars for scaling up and maintenance. There is no light at the end of the tunnel with local Grid infrastructure.

Scalability, reliability, and security are the three major things that you can achieve with Cypress CI on LambdaTest. LambdaTest not only allows you to perform Cypress testing on the cloud-based Grid but lets you perform cross browser testing at an unimaginable scale. LambdaTest supports the below listed browsers, browser versions, and Operating Systems for Cypress testing.

OPERATING SYSTEM	CHROME	FIREFOX	EDGE
macOS Catalina*	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above
macOS Big Sur	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above
Windows 10	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above
Windows 8.1*	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above
Windows 8*	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above
Windows 7*	66 and above	60 and above	80 and above

Note: The Operating systems, with (*) mentioned against them, will be live soon. There is no support for Chrome 82 and Edge 82 since these browser versions were not released by Google and Microsoft respectively due to release delays.

Installing Cypress

Installing the Cypress CLI for LambdaTest is easy and quick. Simply run the command npm install -g lambdatest-cypress-cli on the terminal and you are set for Cypress testing on LambdaTest. For a step-by-step guide on Cypress testing, check out our support doc for getting started with Cypress testing on LambdaTest.

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Here’s a short glimpse of the Cypress 101 certification from LambdaTest:

Diving Inside The Automation Console

Once you have set up LambdaTest Cypress CLI in your system, you can run your first ever automation script. Here is a snapshot of how you can run 10 tests in parallel using Cypress on LambdaTest:

As soon as your test script starts executing, you will be able to check the status on the LambdaTest Automation Dashboard.

All your builds are neatly displayed in the Timeline section. You would also be able to check the timestamps for your script execution, along with the time taken for execution completion.

If the test gets executed successfully, you will see a green tick on the Timeline view and a “Completed” message on the Automation logs view of the Automation dashboard. If not, then you will see a red cross and a “Failed” message.

From the Automation Logs, you will be able to:

View the live video feed.
Access screenshots for each test run.
View console logs.
View terminal logs, and much more for each test you run.

You can also analyze each of these tests from the Analytics section.

Complying with cross browser compatibility is of utmost importance and it can be a tedious and expensive task when done using the local Grid infrastructure. Using LambdaTest, you can automate testing using a secure, scalable, and reliable Cloud Grid. You can also use Cypress CLI on LambdaTest to run Cypress tests locally.

Running Cypress tests in parallel on LambdaTest Cloud Grid provides blazing fast execution speed that QA engineers would have always wished for! Need we mention that accelerated test execution would eventually result in faster time to market!

That’s not all, you can integrate your Cypress automation test with popular CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Circle CI, GitLab CI, and more. Check out LambdaTest integrations page to know more about how you can weave the magic around automation testing with Cypress, CI/CD, and LambdaTest.

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Get Started with Cypress Today

With this integration, LambdaTest has given you seamless access to real-time reloads, consistent results, zero flakiness, better control, maximum parallelization, and much more. All the more reason to count on LambdaTest for executing, scaling up, and making the most of your tests in parallel across different browser versions!

If you want to see Cypress in action, feel free to ping us over our chat support or our support mail, or directly schedule a demo with us. If you are already a Cypress user, we can help you get onboarded and help you set up your current Cypress tests over LambdaTest Automation Cloud. You just have to let us know and we would be happy to help!!!!

Try out Cypress CLI on LambdaTest today. Do subscribe to our newsletter to stay updated with more exciting news!

Get the best out of your Cypress tutorial with LambdaTest’s online Cypress automation tool. Check out how you can test your Cypress test scripts using LambdaTest’s online cloud.

Automate Cypress testing and perform browser automation testing with LambdaTest. Our cloud infrastructure has 3000+ desktop & mobile environments. Try for free!

We also raised $16M in Series B!!

That’s not all for the big news for today. We’ve raised $16M in a Series B round led by Sequoia Capital, along with Telstra Ventures, Wamda Capital and leading sovereign wealth fund. This new infusion of funds will help us fast track our vision of empowering developers and testers worldwide with a powerful, comprehensive and secure continuous quality test platform. With the launch of Cypress CLI on LambdaTest, we have already taken the first step in this direction. There’s so much more to come, stay tuned!

Happy testing 🙂

Understanding SpecFlow Framework and Running Tests on Cloud Selenium Grid

Kritika — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:51:05 +0000

Software depends on a team of experts who share their viewpoint to show the whole picture in the form of an end product. In software development, each member of the team makes a vital contribution to make sure that the product is created and released with extreme precision. The process of software design, and testing leads to complications due to the availability of different types of web products (e.g. website, web app, mobile apps, etc.).

The best way to eliminate this issue is to have a proper communication system between all stakeholders. Improved product quality can be achieved by involving a diverse set of members (e.g. product managers, software managers, non-technical members, and more) in the software testing process. This is where Behaviour Driven Frameworks (BDD) can play an instrumental role, as the test scenarios are written in simple and understandable English language. SpecFlow is one such BDD framework that is extensively used by the automation testing fraternity.

The advent of frameworks like SpecFlow has proven to be the most reliable solution for businesses, software organizations, and even standalone developers.

LambdaTest got together with SpecFlow to understand how the framework works to help eliminate such issues and how it can be used at scale using cloud Selenium Grid. In case you missed the Webinar, let us look at the major highlights of the event.

About SpecFlow

The story of SpecFlow started out in 2009, when the team decided to build a native .NET automation framework for automating Gherkin Feature Files. This was later released as SpecFlow on GitHub. SpecFlow is open-source, and free to use. It is actively developed, and maintained by the team and its active community members. For .NET platforms and Microsoft ecosystem, SpecFlow implements BDD.

SpecFlow truly believes that Specification-By-Example (SBE) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD) are inspiring ways of connecting software developers with business and change management stakeholders. Both are based on a shared understanding of what the software to be built is. The framework is created to help teams get aligned around the common understanding of specific business goals, functionality, and acceptance criteria. This is all about effective communication and collaboration which are indispensable to build great software.

These practices are based on extreme programming principles but extend them with formal semantics to drive product discovery and clarification of software system specifications. Here are some of the standout features of the SpecFlow framework:

SpecFlow allows you to separate specifications and test automation, as well as provide tools for creating a maintainable coding structure.
With SpecFlow, it is possible to focus on coding feature-logic instead of explaining it to stakeholders.
For a customised BDD experience, you can integrate SpecFlow with tools such as LambdaTest, Appium, and Selenium.
Every time you build a new version, you can run tests and generate complete documentation for your stakeholders.
To create a shared understanding of software requirements, SpecFlow employs human-readable requirements descriptions.
SpecFlow can help you find out exactly what the user needs, collaborate with the team and ship a top quality product.

In case you want to get started with the SpecFlow framework, do check out SpecFlow Tutorial For Automation Testing.

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About the Webinar

In today’s software industry, achieving a quality bug-free release is entirely dependent on the quality of work done. Behavior Driven development (BDD) is an effective method of reducing the communication gap between stakeholders of the software projects, such as product owners, developers, and testers.

In association with SpecFlow,LambdaTest hosted a webinar on the importance of BDD in software development. In this webinar, Harshit Paul (Product & Growth Manager at LambdaTest) and Andreas Willich (Community Manager for SpecFlow) discussed how automation testing with Selenium can benefit from the integration of SpecFlow and LambdaTest Selenium Grid.

Andreas began the webinar by explaining Behavior-Driven development (BDD), its differences from Test-Driven development (TDD), and the importance of the SpecFlow framework in test automation.

Shown below is the agenda of the SpecFlow Webinar:

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What is Behavior Driven Development

For those not familiar with Behavior Driven development, Andreas went ahead and explained everything there is to know about it. He also explained how BDD is actually an enhancement of TDD!

What is Gherkin

He introduced Gherkin and explained how it works. From Feature Description to Scenario, he gave a brief overview about Gherkin for the benefit of all the viewers. He used a concrete example of a Calculator to explain the usage of Gherkin feature files.

Here, the scenario is to add numbers, which can also have a description if required (this description will not affect the automation in any manner whatsoever). To get started, we have three important keywords in a scenario which can help you define the steps corresponding to the scenarios. Once you have done that, you can go ahead and automate these steps later on.

Then, he talked about the best practices to write the features files and demonstrated how SpecFlow seamlessly integrates with LambdaTest to execute multiple tests at a brisk pace.

Here’s a step by step guide to run automation scripts on LambdaTest cloud grid using SpecFlow. Do check out our blog titled How To Perform Parallel Execution With Specflow, NUnit, And Selenium in case you want to run SpecFlow tests in parallel on the LambdaTest Cloud Grid.

Introduction to LambdaTest

In the second last segment, Harshit Paul introduced the LambdaTest platform and explained how it can be used to automate Selenium and Cypress testing. Additionally, he discussed in detail about the third-party integrations supported by LambdaTest, leveraging the data available in the automation dashboard, etc. In case you are using the Cypress framework, make sure to check out our blog that helps you Perform Cypress Testing at Scale.

In the end, we had an engaging Q/A session. Intrigued to learn more about the SpecFlow framework and how it can be used effectively for cross browser testing? Do check out our exhaustive SpecFlow Selenium C# playlist on LambdaTest YouTube channel:

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That’s all!

The webinar was a success, I hope you liked it. You can find the recording of the Webinar above, in case you missed it. Make sure to share this article with anyone who wants to learn more about behavior-driven testing with SpecFlow. Stay tuned for more exciting webinars. You can also sign up to receive our newsletter Coding Jag for the latest news on testing!

That’s all for now, happy testing!

Scalable and Reliable Cross Browser Testing With Cypress Framework

Kritika — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 14:02:47 +0000

The complexity involved in the creation of modern web applications must be balanced with rigorous testing cycles. Automation testing can play a critical role in ensuring that the end result (e.g., website or application) is of top-notch quality. A crucial part of automation testing involves end-to-end functional tests traditionally accomplished in Selenium using JavaScript. Cypress is one of the other frameworks that is picking up the pace of performing Cypress E2E testing.

Cypress is a new breed of automation testing tool best suited for running end-to-end tests on modern web applications. It is one of the leading test automation frameworks that support full-stack application testing for JavaScript-enabled applications. Cypress has been gaining traction in the QA community because of features like ease of use, excellent documentation, and minimizing flakiness in tests. In addition, you can check out our detailed blog that deep dives into Cypress vs Selenium for web automation testing.

LambdaTest hosted a webinar, “Scalable and Reliable Cross Browser Testing With Cypress Framework,” in association with Narayanan Palani — Best-Selling Author & Chapter Lead of Major Financial Institution (London). Harshit Paul, Product & Growth Manager at LambdaTest, joined him to demonstrate automating Cypress testing on Cloud.

For those of you who missed the Webinar, here is a quick recap.

About Cypress

Testing is one of the vital pillars when it comes to releasing top-quality web applications. However, with increasing complexity, it becomes challenging to meet the constraints of unique project requirements.

Have you wasted hours, days, even weeks on manual testing? We know that feeling, and it is not a good one:(.

However, excellent tools are available, which allow us to deliver outstanding quality while adhering to the project deadlines. The team at Cypress felt the same and decided to build a tool that can stop the madness and march towards shipping and delighting your users. Cypress is an open-source JavaScript-based automation testing framework that provides full-stack testing capabilities to build fantastic software.

Cypress runs in the same loop as the AUT (Application Under Test). Behind Cypress is a Node.js server process. You can check out our detailed blog that will help getting started with Cypress for web automation testing.

Cypress is an open-source framework; here are some of the major benefits of Cypress framework:

Seamless installation (with no additional dependencies)
Real-time monitoring of the test execution
Built-in features like load balancing and parallelization
Insightful dashboard that features CI results, screenshots, and recorded videos of test execution
Best-suited for end-to-end testing
Excellent documentation and evolving community
Facility to monitor the test execution at each step by hovering over commands in the Command Log
Automatic reload of tests whenever changes are made to the tests helps in viewing real-time execution of the test commands

If you are already using the Cypress framework and want to run Cypress tests at scale, check out our blog that will help you check out how to leverage Cypress test automation for end-to-end testing. Now you can perform free end to end Cypress testing online.

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About the Webinar

QA engineers and other relevant stakeholders are always looking for the most effective test automation that helps catch bugs and improve code quality. And that’s a good thing. Testing frameworks and tools should constantly be evolving to fit the needs of developers. Cypress is a modern test automation framework that lets you write concise, reliable and high-coverage tests with ultra ease.

Here are some of the lingering questions that would come to your mind when trying the Cypress framework:

How do you automate Cypress?
How do you scale test suites across multiple browsers?
Which browsers (and browser versions) are supported by Cypress?
How to use Cypress for realizing end-to-end testing?

This webinar might help you seek answers to the above questions. LambdaTest hosted a webinar with Narayanan Palani, a proven expert with Cypress testing, to better understand Cypress test automation. He was joined by Harshit Paul (Product & Growth Manager at LambdaTest) to demonstrate automating Cypress tests at scale.

This webinar also explains the benefits of Cypress over other popular tools that help with web automation testing. Here is the complete coverage of the webinar:

Let’s dig deep into the integral parts of the webinar:

Here is the agenda of the Cypress testing Webinar.

Narayanan began the webinar by explaining the reasons behind the popularity of Cypress testing. Having released 18 versions of Cypress Framework in 2021, it has amassed 231K users and continues to grow every day.

In addition, he discussed why Cypress is an all-in-one tool suited for full-stack developers and why you can perform E2E tests with Cypress. Just name the test type, and you can do the same with Cypress! Use Cypress to perform unit testing, regression testing, integration testing, cross browser testing, and more.

Given the massive scope of Cypress, there are a plethora of job opportunities available for test automation engineers who have proven expertise with the Cypress framework. Narayanan gave an insightful view into Cypress-based jobs and the expected salary from a global perspective.

Installing Cypress

You need two essential tools in your arsenal to install Cypress and kick off your testing — An IDE like (VS Code) and Node. You need to install Node.js (version >= 12) before installing Cypress on the machine. In case you are just getting started with Cypress, make sure you check out the ‘Cypress Testing Tutorial’ video that covers the Cypress installation process in great detail.

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Cypress Vs. Selenium

Next, Narayanan lists down all the benefits of Cypress over Selenium and why you should go for Cypress instead of Selenium automation testing. While Selenium is still the number one tool in the test automation market, Cypress is slowly gaining pace. He also pointed out that Cypress is more than a QA tool and can also be used by front-end engineers. For example, testers can leverage Cypress for regression testing, whereas front-end engineers can use Cypress for integration testing.

Running Cypress Tests on LambdaTest Grid

Furthermore, Narayanan explains how a simple three-step installation lets you run Cypress tests on the LambdaTest Grid. Cypress testing on a cloud (like LambdaTest) helps you attain accelerated test execution as well as improved browser coverage. Additionally, the video recording of the entire test execution makes the overall testing experience more interactive than ever.

In the end of this cypress tutorial, we had an engaging Q/A session. Are you intrigued to learn more about Cypress and how it can be used effectively to scale up your browser testing? If yes, you should subscribe to the LambdaTest YouTube channel to cover every aspect of the Cypress test automation framework.

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That’s all!

The Webinar was an eye-opener for many of us, as we got to learn various new dimensions of Cypress and the potential it holds for end-to-end Functional/UI testing. It runs tests in real browsers and on the command line. Its core focuses are Command Line Interface (CLI) driven automation based on Page Objects, ease of use, readability, and maintainability for rapid development cycles.

Watch this space for future webinars. For the latest news on testing, you can also sign up for our newsletter Coding Jag!

Happy testing!

Mobile App Testing is Now LIVE On LambdaTest!

Kritika — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 12:21:16 +0000

In today’s ever-evolving digital landscape, apps have quickly risen to become one of the most powerful tools in business success. With more than 3.2 billion smartphone users worldwide, it is no surprise that mobile apps are becoming a de-facto inclusion for digital-first businesses. As a result, viral app ideas and startup businesses are increasingly becoming common, as it helps in reaching out to more people without spending exorbitantly on marketing and advertising.

As per Statista, more than 88.5 thousand mobile apps were released alone through the Google Play Store. Top-notch app quality and user experience are the two major factors to ensure user stickiness on the application. In addition, Mobile app testing helps enterprises and individual developers build secure, scalable, and accessible apps across a range of platforms. In a nutshell, Mobile app testing plays a vital role in releasing a ‘winning’ mobile application that has the potential to woo your target audience.

LambdaTest is now live native mobile app testing across a wide range of mobile emulators & simulators. You can now test your Android and iOS applications on emulators and simulators of the most widely-used mobile devices. The cherry on the cake is that existing LambdaTest users can access this new feature using their existing subscription (or plan).

That’s right — it’s free of cost!

Let’s find out more about Native Mobile App Testing offered by LambdaTest!

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Why is Mobile App Testing the need of the hour?

The mobile app economy is projected to generate more than 935 billion U.S. dollars in revenue by 2023 via paid downloads and in-app advertising.

The mobile app market is highly competitive, and ‘richness in quality’ is the only golden rule of mobile app success. The lines are blurring between platforms as more functionality is being added to browsers and web apps.

To overcome common issues like mobile app abandonment, app fatigue, decrease in Monthly Active Users (MAU), and slashed conversion rates, you need to up your game, and mobile app testing is the best way to go.

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What’s in store for Mobile App Testing on LambdaTest?

Back in 2014, you could easily test the app on your phone and perform a basic check for mobile-friendliness. Unfortunately, today’s complex mobile apps are making this hard to do. Mobile device and OS fragmentation add an innumerable amount of complexities to the release of mobile applications.

LambdaTest offers a variety of mobile emulators and simulators for you to test your Android or iOS apps so that it delivers the best possible end-user experience. Testing your app on LambdaTest is super simple! You just have to upload the app to the LambdaTest cloud for testing and sit back & relax!

Mobile app testing on LambdaTest provides you with test results in the shortest possible time. This also helps in ensuring that you can reach the market as per the target deadline.

LambdaTest offerings under Mobile App Testing

Seamlessly upload & install an app on iOS simulator(s) or Android emulator(s) using a local system &/or public cloud URL. You can upload your iOS apps in the .zip format and Android apps in the .apk format.
Test your application on a wide range of Android emulators and iOS simulators to identify bugs at a quicker pace and capture screenshots with a single click. This will ensure on-time delivery and a smooth user experience.
The ability to kill an app, uninstall an app, and install a new app during a running test session
Video recording of the test session that is accessible in the Gallery. Execution snapshots are also available in the Gallery.
Access to multiple logs (e.g., Device Log, Network Log, App Log) assists in debugging.
Ability to test the app in different device orientations.
Control device buttons (e.g., volume and power control).
Simulation of GPS or IP geolocation

You can refer to our documentation on Native Mobile App Testing to find out more and get started! Also, check out the video from LambdaTest YouTube channel that gives a glimpse about the native app testing offerings from LambdaTest:

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Wrapping Up!

We know our community has been eagerly awaiting for this update. So we suggest you go ahead and try Native Mobile App Testing today and let us know your experiences by dropping in a line in the comments below. You can also reach out to our 24*7 customer support or simply mail us support@lambdatest.com.

Happy testing!

Difference Between Web And Mobile Application Testing

Kritika — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:23:26 +0000

Smartphones have changed the way humans interact with technology. Be it travel, fitness, lifestyle, video games, or even services, it’s all just a few touches away (quite literally so). We only need to look at the growing throngs of smartphone or tablet users vs. desktop users to grasp this reality.

According to a survey, there were over 54.57% mobile users compared to 42.66% of desktop users from April 2021 to April 2022. With easy access to fast Internet and the massive variety of cheaper smartphones available today, these numbers are bound to bend significantly towards mobile usage in the future too.

Traditionally, web applications were the significant application type in most businesses. However, unlike run-of-the-mill HTML, JavaScript, and CSS web apps that run on a browser, there are now mobile applications capable of running on hand-held devices. This has also led to a rapid change to a mobile first strategy for business across all industries.

But conquering the mobile-app-focused market isn’t so easy, especially when it comes to mobile app testing, which is essential in building a top-notch mobile app. Even more interesting is there’s a whole world of difference between web and mobile application testing!

In this article on the difference between web and mobile application testing, we explore the difference between web and mobile application testing to help you strategize your mobile and web app testing for maximum results.

How different are Web Apps and Mobile Apps?

Both web applications and mobile apps are indeed used to improve the efficiency of business processes. However, they are different in terms of their architecture and delivery mechanism, which leads to a difference between web and mobile application testing.

Before we deep-dive into the difference between web and mobile application testing, let’s see what web and mobile applications are.

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What are Web Applications?

A web application is an application that runs in the browser and does not need to be downloaded. Web applications are a collection of programs or services that use the Internet to deliver information to users. Each web application consists of an interface, which can be accessed via a web browser, and a back-end server that manages the data and executes specific processes.

Web applications can create powerful, stand-alone tools for a specific purpose. For example, Gmail is an email web application that replaces the need for a desktop mail client and stores emails on Google’s servers. Another example of a web application is the OTT (over-the-top) platform Netflix built with the sole purpose of media streaming through a browser.

Applications are usually built in some specific programming language. The most popular are JavaScript, C#, Python, and PHP. Web applications can also be standalone programs accessed from a web browser but run on servers elsewhere. Some specific web applications are also called “Rich Internet Applications” (RIAs), especially when they employ advanced technologies like AJAX, Flash, or Silverlight.

What are Mobile Applications?

Mobile applications, also referred to as apps, are software programs designed to run on small mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. Mobile apps run on an operating system and can be downloaded from a store, such as the Apple App Store or Google Play Store. These programs provide users with tools and services to help them accomplish tasks.

Mobile applications extend the functionality of mobile devices, such as providing the ability to run a wide range of applications, use Internet services, send and receive emails, and text messages, take pictures and videos, play games, calculate mathematical problems, read books, access social networking sites and much more.

Mobile apps are usually made for specific mobile operating systems, such as iOS, Android, Windows, and specific devices like tablets or phones. They can be free or paid and may or may not require a subscription. Applications are either pre-installed on phones during manufacture or installed later.

Mobile apps can be further categorized as mobile web applications, native applications, and hybrid applications.

Mobile web applications are similar to web applications, only that they run on a mobile browser. These web applications don’t require any downloads or installations. In simple terms, these applications can be defined as super-responsive websites that are very flexible when adapting based on user expectations or requirements.
While this is a significant plus point for mobile web applications, there is a dark side as well- the performance of these apps entirely relies on a device’s browser and an Internet connection, which could impact the user experience for every other user. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are among the most commonly used types of mobile web applications.
Native mobile applications are designed to run on specific devices. They can be developed using native languages for each platform (Objective C for iOS and Java for Android) or cross-platform development tools (Phone Gap). These are standalone applications explicitly built for different mobile OS such as iOS or Android. Native apps are often built to be reliable and faster than other applications. But that also leads to a higher cost of native app development and production.
Hybrid applications are built like mobile web apps with the capability of running like native mobile apps, i.e., in a native environment. These apps often look like web applications yet have all the perks and features offered by native mobile applications. Hybrid applications offer users the best of both worlds- minimum load time and consistent user experience even during poor Internet connection.

To know more about web, native and hybrid applications, please check our blog on the Difference Between Web vs Hybrid vs Native Apps.

Difference between Web and Mobile Application Testing

Testing is the process of evaluating a software application for compliance with specific criteria. This process helps ensure that software- be it a web app or a mobile app, meets the required standards and performs as expected. In the last section of this article on the difference between Web and Mobile Application testing, we explained how different web and mobile apps are. Hence, it’s easier to understand that the difference between web and mobile applications comes down to their complexity, purpose, and intended users.

Web application testing involves testing web applications for quality, functionality, usability, etc. This could involve testing the web app’s performance across different operating systems, browsers, and versions. Cross browser testing and cross browser compatibility testing both help ensure that a web app is providing a consistent user experience across every possible combination of OS and browsers.

Mobile app testing is verifying whether or not an application works as intended. Therefore, before releasing a mobile app, it is essential to ensure that it performs up to quality standards and does not contain any bugs that could hinder the user experience.

While web application testing has been an essential part of conventional software testing, mobile app testing is often left wanting more. Even though mobile application development is a booming business, many well-known companies like Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook are ruling with their apps.

There are many essential differences between web and mobile application testing.

Compatibility– The most crucial difference is the screen size. A web app can be viewed on various devices and screen sizes, whereas a mobile app will only fit perfectly on its target platform, i.e., a mobile device. The battery life and storage capacity of desktop computers or mobile devices also impact the performance of respective apps. Web apps are pretty easy to test owing to a lack of compatibility issues. On the other hand, mobile apps are built with complex architecture. They are expected to be compatible with multitudes of devices, making mobile app testing quite intricate.
User Interactions– Web apps are built to offer a limited variety of user interactions, with a keyboard and mouse input still being the standard. These interactions are pretty easy to predict and comparatively easy to test. On the other hand, the expected user interactions for mobile apps are almost labyrinthine- be it swiping, pinching, voice-based interactions, or even hand wave gestures, complicating mobile app testing further.
Internet Speed/Availability– When it comes to web applications, there are two types: those that need to be online to work and those that can function offline. The vast majority of web applications — around 95% — are of the first type and require a constant Internet connection to work. The same rule applies to mobile applications, and most of them don’t work offline. Therefore, to ensure a web app or mobile app performs well regardless of the Internet connection speed (or the lack of it), it becomes imperative to test it with different speeds.

To ensure that users get the most of your web app or mobile app, it is essential to pick the right tool, especially after considering the complications associated with mobile apps.

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Choosing the Best Tool for Mobile and Web Application Testing

Despite the difference between mobile application and web application testing, they still have some tests in common. For example, both require functionality, performance, change-related, usability, compatibility, localization, recovery, and even certification testing. Based on this information, allow us to help you choose the best tool for mobile and web application testing.

Frameworks for testing Web Applications

Web application testing is primarily done on desktops or laptops. However, various commercial tools are available for doing the same, and they have their advantages.

Listed below are some of the best automation frameworks used for web application testing.

Selenium

Selenium is a popular open-source automation testing framework for web application testing. Selenium is used to automate web application testing across different browsers and platforms. In addition, it supports various programming languages, including Java, C#, Python, and Ruby. Selenium has become very popular with web developers and QA professionals because it is easy to use, flexible, and provides good coverage of the functionality of web applications.

If you are new to Selenium, check our guide on what is Selenium.

Selenium supports the recording and playback of test cases, making it easy for beginners to get started. However, the more experienced users can also use Selenium’s powerful programming features to create sophisticated test scripts. So if you’re looking for a powerful yet affordable solution, Selenium is the way to go.

Cypress

Cypress is the new kid on the block when it comes to front end testing frameworks. It has quickly gained popularity due to its powerful and flexible testing capabilities. Cypress allows you to write tests in your own language, which gives you a lot of flexibility and makes the tests more readable. Cypress test automation framework makes it easy for you to write powerful and flexible tests for your web applications.

Playwright

Playwright is a framework for end-to-end testing and manages modern web apps. You can perform Playwright testing across various browsers and platforms. There is no need to worry about flaky tests.

Puppeteer

Puppeteer is a Node package for automating web tests using the Chrome browser. By using the DevTools Protocol, it provides a high-level API for controlling headless Chrome or Chromium. Alternatively, you can set it up to run full (headless) Chrome or Chromium.

TestCafe

TestCafe is a prevalent test automation framework widely used in the industry. It is an open-source Node.js automation testing tool for web application testing. It enables you to write tests for your web application using familiar JavaScript. In addition, tests run in a browser, so you don’t need to install and learn any new software.

Web testing with TestCafe offers several features such as running tests in parallel, recording and playback, and automatic waits for AJAX calls and page loads. In addition, TestCafe has a wide range of plugins to support different frameworks and libraries.

When testing large web applications, it is practically impossible for businesses to afford separate infrastructure or resources. This is where you need a robust cloud testing platform to help you handle day-to-day testing challenges.

Accelerate Web Application testing using LambdaTest

LambdaTest is a cloud-based web testing platform that allows devs and testers to perform manual and automated web testing on an online browser farm of 3000+ browsers and OS combinations.
You can perform the below web testing options based on the requirement:

Manual Testing
Automation Testing (Selenium, Cypress, Playwright automation, and Puppeteer)
HyperExecute testing for faster test automation.
Test At Scale

To make things easier for your team- from grid setup to device labs, LambdaTest’s online Selenium Grid allows you to test your Selenium web automation tests on a wide range of real desktop and mobile browsers.

An online Selenium Grid for automation testing offered by LambdaTest is shown in the video below.

You can also subscribe to the LambdaTest YouTube Channel to keep up to date on the latest Selenium testing, Cypress E2E testing, Real Time Testing, CI/CD, and more.

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Frameworks for testing Mobile Applications

The key factors to consider while choosing the right mobile app testing tool includes compatibility with browser, network, and device, device bandwidth/capacity, user expectations, frequent software upgrades, and security.

Considering all this, here is a list of the best mobile app testing frameworks.

Appium

Appium is a powerful open-source framework for app test automation on iOS, Android, and Windows devices. It uses the WebDriver protocol to control apps on these platforms, making it a versatile and efficient tool for testers. It’s especially effective for web and mobile applications and automated functional testing.

XCUITest

Apple unveiled XCUITest, an automated app testing framework for iOS automation testing of apps. It is not a cross-platform framework, so tests performed here cannot be used to test Android applications.

Espresso

Espresso is an Android-specific automation framework for creating and deploying user interface tests. Developers can use Espresso to design a test scenario and record their interactions with a mobile device.

Robotium

Robotium is a free and open-source Android app testing framework. It aids in creating simple automation test scripts and is well-known for its ability to generate automated test cases. In addition, Robotium allows test case developers to construct function, system, and acceptability test scenarios that span multiple Android activities.

Selendroid

Selendroid is an Android-based mobile application testing framework. It also allows hybrid and native app test automation. Selendroid can also run parallel test cases on several devices simultaneously.

Watch this video to learn how to write a basic script with Playwright using functions & selectors and then launch the browser to execute the test.

Running Mobile application testing on LambdaTest

As mentioned above, maintaining an in-house device lab can be cumbersome. Therefore, a feasible option is to harness the immense capabilities offered by a cloud-testing platform like LambdaTest. With LambdaTest, you can test your mobile apps on iOS simulators, Android emulators, and real device cloud.

It also lets you perform manual app testing and app test automation of your native apps on an online device farm of 3000+ Android and iOS devices. The LambdaTest online device lab will eliminate your in-house device testing needs. With Appium testing, you can also run tests across multiple devices and achieve faster feedback times on code commits.

Watch this quick video tutorial on using LambdaTest to perform mobile app testing on real devices.

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Conclusion

Mobile application testing and web application testing are essential to ensure an app’s quality. Different mobile devices and operating systems need to be tested to ensure an app works correctly. Similarly, different web browsers and their versions need to be tested for compatibility with a website.

One of the most pertinent distinctions is that mobile app testing is done on real devices, while web app testing is done on emulators or simulators. Additionally, mobile app testing is more complex as it requires different devices, OS versions, and screen sizes.

To perform mobile app testing, you’ll need an on-premise device lab to perform mobile app testing, which can be prohibitively expensive for small businesses. However, a cloud-based infrastructure like LambdaTest can reduce costs and get the best results. I hope you like this article on the difference between web and mobile application testing.
Pick wisely, and happy testing!

Automated Testing with Jasmine Framework & Selenium

Kritika — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 13:18:04 +0000

In today’s fast-paced world of software development, we have new technologies and languages for development coming on very frequently. With this comes several testing and automation tools and frameworks in the related market. Choosing the right set of tools and frameworks becomes an absolute necessity because it impacts the accuracy and TTM (Time to Market).

JavaScript is one of the widely used programming languages for web automation testing. It also supports a number of Selenium test automation frameworks for web UI testing. Of all the available ones, Jasmine framework is a JavaScript automation testing framework turns out to be the best-suited, as it provides a stable and functional architecture. It is easy to get started with Jasmine framework and is also easy to implement test scenarios with the same.

In this tutorial of Selenium automation testing with Jasmine, we look into the nitty-gritty of the Jasmine JavaScript testing framework from an automation testing standpoint. We will also learn how to set it up, followed by a sample code writing and execution. In subsequent sections of this Selenium Jasmine tutorial, we will also learn how to run Jasmine JavaScript tests at scale on a cloud-based Selenium Grid like LambdaTest.

So let’s get started!!

Introduction to Jasmine

Jasmine is an open-source JavaScript testing framework. It is a behavior-driven (BDD), development-inspired framework that is independent of any other frameworks. It is used for unit testing of both synchronous and asynchronous JavaScript test scenarios. In addition to its outstanding support for JS, it also provides extensive support for Python for python web automation, Ruby, and other JavaScript-based languages. Furthermore, it is available for different versions like standalone, node.js, etc. An additional benefit of using Jasmine is that it is an independent framework with minimal (to no) dependency on language, browser, and platform.

Jasmine JavaScript testing framework does not require a DOM and is very easy to set up. Also, it provides an immaculate and easy to read syntax like below example-

describe("A suite is just a function", function() {
  var a;

  it("and so is a spec", function() {
    a = true;

    expect(a).toBe(true);
  });
});

Why use Jasmine as a Testing Framework for JavaScript Tests?

Having understood what Jasmine is, let us look at the key features (or advantages) of using JavaScript Selenium automation testing for Web UI testing:

Easy to set up and easy to write tests.
Very fast as it has almost zero overhead and no external dependencies for Jasmine core.
It comes with out-of-the-box support to fulfill all the test needs.
Can run the browser and node.js tests with the same framework.
An extensive & active community and regularly updated documentation for support and development.
Support for usage of spies for test doubles implementation in the framework.
It even supports testing of front-end code using the Jasmine-jQuery extension.
It also supports test-driven development in addition to behavior-driven development.
Unlike other JavaScript testing frameworks, the Jasmine testing framework has built-in assertions.
It comes with an inbuilt test runner, which can be used to run browser tests.
Provides a rich number of built-in matchers that can be used to match expectations and add asserts to the test cases. Some examples are toEqual, toBe, toBeTruthy, toBeFalsy, toContain, toBeDefined, toBeUndefined, toBeNull, toBeNaN, etc.

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Advantages of using Jasmine Framework with Selenium

Jasmine and Selenium are popularly used for JavaScript automation testing and web UI automation testing respectively, check here to know more about What Is Selenium?. When working on a JavaScript-based web UI project, it is better to combine both the forces to take the advantage of both of them:

Jasmine framework and Selenium automation testing complement each other in being open-source, easy to implement, and scale.
Their capacity to work with almost all browsers and platforms is another added advantage.
By using a Selenium Grid, Jasmine framework tests can be executed more quickly through parallel execution. You can refer to our earlier blog on Importance of Parallel Testing in Selenium to get a detailed understanding about the advantages offered by parallel test execution.

Getting Started with Jasmine

Having gathered some knowledge around the what & why of the Jasmine testing framework in JavaScript, let us now dig deeper and get our hands dirty with the implementation. In this section of the Selenium Jasmine tutorial, we will learn about the workflow of Jasmine and understand the basics of writing test scenarios.

Let us assume we need to test a file test.js using Jasmine JavaScript testing framework. SpecRunner.html would be the output file that will run all test cases from spec.js taking Lib as an input and then show the results in the browser.

Lib : Consists of built-in JavaScript files that help to test varied functions and other JS files within the project.
SpecRunner.html : A usual html file that will render the output of the test run in the browser.
test.js : This file comprises the actual functionalities/code under test, which is to be tested with the help of spec.js and lib file.
spec.js : Also referenced as the test case file, this contains all the testcases in a prescribed format for the file to be tested.

Here are the basic building blocks of Jasmine tests:

Suite Block Suite forms the basic building block of the Jasmine JavaScript testing framework. One suite is composed of test cases or specs written to test a particular file and is made up of two blocks: the describe() block and it() block.
describe() This is used to group related test cases written under it(). There is only one describe() at the top level, unless the test suite is a nested one. In which case, it takes a string parameter to name the collection of test cases in that particular describe() block.
it() — contains specs/test cases This is used to define the specs or the test cases inside the describe() block. Like a describe(), it takes similar parameters — one string for name and one function that is the test case we want to execute. A spec without any assertions is of no use.

Each spec in Jasmine consists of at least one assertion, which is referred to as expectation here. If all expectations pass in a spec, it is called a passing spec. On the other hand, if one or more expectations fails in a spec, it is called a failing spec.

Note: Since both it() and describe() blocks are JavaScript functions, all the basic variable and scope rules apply to them as per js code. Also, they can contain any valid executable code. This means variables at describing() level are accessible to all and it() level within the test suite.

describe("A suite is just a function", function() {
  var a;

  it("and so is a spec", function() {
    a = true;

    expect(a).toBe(true);
  });
});

Expectations or Matchers

Expectations or matchers are a way to implement assertions in the Jasmine JavaScript testing framework. This is done with the help of expect function, which takes the actual value produced by the test case as output.

It is then chained with a matcher function that takes expected results for that test case and then evaluates them to give a boolean result. The returned value is true if the expectation matches, else it is false. Jasmine also provides the utility to check for negative assertions by adding not before the matcher for a required expect function.

All the expect functions come under it() block, and each it() block can have one or more expect() blocks. Jasmine provides a wide range of in-built matchers and lets you extend matchers via custom matchers.

describe("This is a describe block for expectations", function() {

it("this is a positive matcher", function() {
    expect(true).toBe(true);
  });

it("this is a negative matcher", function() {
    expect(false).not.toBe(true);
  });

});

Here is a small example to understand the usage and implementation of describe(), it(), and expect() blocks. We will be testing a file named Addition.js having a corresponding spec file with test cases as AdditionSpec.js.

function Addition() = { 

   initialValue:0,  

   add:function (num) { 
      this.initialValue += num; 
      return this.initialValue;    
   },     

   addAny:function () {    
      var sum = this.initialValue; 

      for(var i = 0; i < arguments.length; i++) { 
         sum += arguments[i]; 
      } 

      this.initialValue = sum; 
      Return  this.initialValue; 
   }, 
};

describe("to verify Addition.js file",function() { 

   //test case: 1  
   it("Should have initial value", function () {
      expect(Addition.initialValue).toEqual(0);  
   }); 

   //test case: 2  
   it("should add numbers",function() {
      expect(Addition.add(5)).toEqual(5); 
      expect(Addition.add(5)).toEqual(10);  
   });         

   //test case :3   
   it("Should add any number of numbers",function () {
      expect(Addition.addAny(1,2,3)).toEqual(6); 
   }); 
});

Jasmine JavaScript testing framework also provides support for nested suites utilizing nested describe() blocks. Here is an example of a spec file with nesting for the same Addition.js.

describe("to verify Addition.js file using nested suites",function() { 

   // Starting of first suite block  
   describe("Retaining values ",function () {

      //test case:1    
      it ("Should have initial value", function () { 
         expect(Addition.currentVal).toEqual(0);   
      });    
   }); //end of first suite block   

   //second suite block 
   describe("Adding single number ",function () {     

      //test case:2 
      it("should add numbers",function() { 
         expect(Addition.add(5)).toEqual(5); 
         expect(Addition.add(5)).toEqual(10); 
      });         
   }); //end of second suite block  

   //third suite block 
   describe("Adding Different Numbers",function () {  

      //test case:3 
      it("Should add any number of numbers",function() {  
         expect(Addition.addAny(1,2,3)).toEqual(6);  
      });    
   }); //end of third suite block 
});

Using Standalone Jasmine Distribution For Selenium Automation Testing

To get started with Jasmine, follow the below mentioned steps to complete the system setup.

Step 1 : Download the latest version of Jasmine from the official website.

Step 2: Download the standalone zip for the selected version from this page.

Step 3: Create a new directory in your system and then add a sub directory to it.

Step 4: Move the downloaded standalone zip inside this sub directory and unzip it here. Once unzipped, your directory structure should look something like this.

Step 5: In order to verify the setup, load the SpecRunner.html in your web browser. If you see an output something like below, it means that you have completed the setup for Jasmine on your system.

Let’s see how to modify this to run our test case for Addition.js using AdditionSpec.js and Nested_AdditionSpec.js.

Firstly, we will remove all the existing files from src and spec folder and add the files for our example which we have understood already. After doing this, the folder structure would look something like this.

Having updated the files, we need one more step to execute our specs, which is to update references to files under spec and src folder as per our changes in SpecRunner.html.

For this open the SpecRunner.html and it would look like this.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="utf-8">
  <title>Jasmine Spec Runner v3.7.1</title>

  <link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/png" href="lib/jasmine-3.7.1/jasmine_favicon.png">
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/jasmine-3.7.1/jasmine.css">

  <script src="lib/jasmine-3.7.1/jasmine.js"></script>
  <script src="lib/jasmine-3.7.1/jasmine-html.js"></script>
  <script src="lib/jasmine-3.7.1/boot.js"></script>

  <!-- include source files here... -->
  <script src="src/Player.js"></script>
  <script src="src/Song.js"></script>

  <!-- include spec files here... -->
  <script src="spec/SpecHelper.js"></script>
  <script src="spec/PlayerSpec.js"></script>

</head>

<body>
</body>
</html>

Just update the file name in the src and spec section and save it, and you are ready to load the SpecRunner.html again to see the results.

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Setting Up Jasmine Environment using npm for Selenium Automation Testing

In order to get started with Selenium automation testing using Jasmine framework in JavaScript, we need to have some prerequisite setup in our system:

Step 1: Make sure the latest JavaScript version is installed on the system. Also, check for node.js and npm on your system and upgrade to the newest version if required.

brew install node
npm install npm@latest -g

Step 2: Navigate to the directory where you want to create your test case, execute it, and install Jasmine by triggering the npm command.

npm install -g jasmine

Step 3: Once this is done, we will install Chrome Driver and Selenium WebDriver in the same directory to execute Jasmine Selenium test cases on the local Selenium Grid.

npm install --save chromedriver
npm install --save selenium-webdriver

Step 4: Once all this is done, we are good to initialize our Jasmine project using the init command.

jasmine init

You should be able to see a spec folder which will be further used for adding test case files. For this Selenium Jasmine JavaScript tutorial, we will be using the following .js file.

// Require modules used in the logic below
const {Builder, By, Key, until} = require('selenium-webdriver');

// You can use a remote Selenium Hub, but we are not doing that here
require('chromedriver');
const driver = new Builder()
    .forBrowser('chrome')
    .build();

// Setting variables for our testcase
const baseUrl = 'https://accounts.lambdatest.com/login'

// function to check for login elements and do login
var loginToLamdbatest = async function() {

    let loginButton = By.xpath('//button');

    // navigate to the login page
    await driver.get(baseUrl);

    // wait for login page to be loaded
    await driver.wait(until.elementLocated(loginButton), 10 * 1000);
    console.log('Login screen loaded.')
}

//to set jasmine default timeout
jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 20 * 1000;

// Start to write the first test case
describe("Selenium test case for login page", function() {
    it("verify page elements", async function() {
        console.log('<----- Starting to execute test case ----->');

    //to do login
    await loginToLamdbatest();

    var welcomeMessage = By.xpath('//*[@class="form_title"]');

    //verify welcome message on login page
    expect(await driver.findElement(welcomeMessage).getText()).toBe('Welcome Back !');

    //to quit the web driver at end of test case execution
    await driver.quit();

    console.log('<----- Test case execution completed ----->');
    });
});

In this example file, we have automated a scenario to navigate to the LambdaTest login page and then verify the welcome message on the page. We have used a local Selenium WebDriver and running the tests on the Chrome browser. To execute the test case, use the following command if you are at the same directory level as the file.

jasmine  exampleSeleniumSpec.js

Once triggered, you will see a chrome browser tab open up on your system and get redirected to a given page, and after successful verification, the browser is closed, and the terminal shows logs like below.

⇒  jasmine example-spec.js
Randomized with seed 07075
Started
<----- Starting to execute test case ----->
Login screen loaded.
<----- Test case execution completed ----->
.


1 spec, 0 failures
Finished in 7.882 seconds
Randomized with seed 07075 (jasmine --random=true --seed=07075

Using Jasmine JavaScript Framework to run Selenium Tests on cloud-based Selenium Grid

Running tests on a local Selenium Grid is not a scalable and reliable approach. You would need to invest significantly in building the test infrastructure if the tests have to be run across a number of browsers, platforms, and device combinations. This is where cloud testing can be useful as it offers the much-needed benefits of scalability, reliability, and parallel test execution.

We will run the Jasmine tests on Selenium Grid Cloud on LambdaTest. You would need to have your LambdaTest username and access token handy to continue with the execution, details are available in the LambdaTest profile section. Set the following environment variables on your machine:

For Mac/Linux

export LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME"
export LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY"
For Windows

set LT_USERNAME="YOUR_USERNAME"
set LT_ACCESS_KEY="YOUR ACCESS KEY

Once this is done, we modify the spec file to have a remote web driver configuration for the LambdaTest Hub to execute test cases on the grid.

For this, we will be adding the required browser capabilities for execution on the LambdaTest Grid and use a remote web driver on their grid. Modified exampleSeleniumSpec.js as per our requirements would look like this:

// Require modules used in the logic below
selenium = require('selenium-webdriver');
const {Builder, By, Key, until} = require('selenium-webdriver');

// Setting variables for our testcase
const baseUrl = 'https://accounts.lambdatest.com/login'
const username= process.env.LT_USERNAME || "<Your_lambdatest_username>"
const accessKey=  process.env.LT_ACCESS_KEY || "<Your_lambdatest_accessKey>"

var remoteHub = 'https://' + username + ':' + accessKey + '@hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub';

const caps = {
         'build': 'Jasmine-selenium-javascript',
    'browserName': 'chrome',
    'version':'73.0',
    'platform': 'Windows 10',
    'video': true,
    'network': true,
    'console': true,
    'visual': true
        };

         const driver = new selenium.Builder().
            usingServer(remoteHub).
            withCapabilities(caps).
            build();

// function to check for login elements and do login
var loginToLamdbatest = async function() {

    let loginButton = By.xpath('//button');

    // navigate to the login page
    await driver.get(baseUrl);

    // wait for login page to be loaded
    await driver.wait(until.elementLocated(loginButton), 10 * 1000);
    console.log('Login screen loaded.')
}

//to set jasmine default timeout
jasmine.DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_INTERVAL = 20 * 1000;
jasmine.getEnv().defaultTimeoutInterval = 60000;

// Start to write the first test case
describe("Selenium test case for login page", function() {

it("verify page elements", async function() {
        console.log('<----- Starting to execute test case ----->');

    //to do login
    await loginToLamdbatest();

    var welcomeMessage = By.xpath('//*[@class="form_title"]');

    //verify welcome message on login page
    expect(await driver.findElement(welcomeMessage).getText()).toBe('Welcome Back !');

    //to quit the web driver at end of test cae execution
    await driver.quit();

    console.log('<----- Test case execution completed ----->');
    });
});

This would also have a similar command to execute and would give the same output as follows on the terminal.

⇒  jasmine lambdatest.js
Randomized with seed 11843
Started
<----- Starting to execute test case ----->
Login screen loaded.
<----- Test case execution completed ----->
.


1 spec, 0 failures
Finished in 15.777 seconds
Randomized with seed 11843 (jasmine --random=true --seed=11843)

You can now navigate the LambdaTest dashboard for the user account and view the execution results and logs on various tabs.

Under Recent Tests on the left side, you can see the latest execution on the Dashboard tab.

To analyze the complete timeline for your different test case runs, we can navigate to Automation Tab.

On Automation Tab only, go to the Automation Logs section to view the entire execution logs and the video of our test case. This helps in debugging the issues by analyzing the run.

You can also navigate to other tabs and per the requirement to add/view data for the execution.

With this, we have completed our Jasmine JavaScript Selenium tutorial to understand the setup and execution with Jasmine on the local and LambdaTest Grid cloud. Check out JavaScript video tutorials on LambdaTest YouTube channel to get a deeper understanding about test automation with JavaScript.

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It’s a Wrap

So, in this Jasmine JavaScript testing framework tutorial with Selenium, we learned about the whats and whys of Jasmine and Selenium, how they make a good combination for automation web UI-based code using JavaScript, and all advantages it provides. Having done the setup and understanding the test case basics, we have successfully executed our test case on local and Selenium Grid with the help of LambdaTest, which provides us with 200+ browsers and OS combinations to fulfill all our testing needs. So, get started and write your first Selenium automation testing code with Jasmine and JavaScript.

Happy Testing!!

Mobile-Optimized Web Experience Drives 30% More Sales & Conversions

Kritika — Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:58:03 +0000

“The latest data from GWI shows that 77 percent of the world’s internet users buy something online each month, with more people now making purchases via mobile devices than via desktop and laptop computers.” — Data Reportal.

There was a time nearly a generation ago when owning a website was the highest type of technological marvel a business needed. Those days are long gone. The ubiquity of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and e-readers, has become a double-edged sword for online businesses. They present new opportunities by allowing users to reach a website from anywhere, anytime, and at the same time generating an overhead for the design, development, and testing team.

Nevertheless, mobile continues to be the most preferred way of accessing the internet, period.

In our previous post, we delved deeper into why mobile is important and why you should focus on mobile-first design as a business owner. In that post as well, we highlighted one main problem with Mobile devices — Limited real estate.

For designers and developers, the space available for placing interactive elements is comparatively significantly less, which limits how they can attract and retain users. And therefore, it became even more critical to work on and optimize the user experience. Thus design and UX of a mobile web page are more critical than you think. Even in the early days, webmasters realized the importance of UX. For example, I remember a 2010 case study where Twitter could boost its sign-ups by 29% by merely redesigning its sign up process. And this was not even targeted at mobile users. Just a redesign of a sign-up process made a significant impact, which holds true for mobile design. Also, not only for conversions, as per Digital WPI’s research, a properly mobile-optimized web page can give 30% more sales, 40% increase in unique page views, 50% decrease in bounce rates, and over 70% increase in overall products sold.

To maintain a competitive edge and get better results out of your online business, it has become increasingly important to deliver an optimal user experience over different mobile devices & network conditions.

As per Smart Insights, Smartphone’s conversion rates have been gradually catching up since the last four quarters of 2019 and have been neck to neck with Desktop in 2020, especially in the States.

However in a world where high-speed internet and one-day deliveries have become a part of life, users have become incredibly impatient, and most of them will bounce away from your website if it takes longer than 3 seconds to load. If you have not already done so, it is time to reinvent your website with a sole focus on mobile user experience before it’s too late.

Time to make it lean and mean with at least a responsive web design, if not complete mobile-first design!

Test your native, hybrid, and web apps across all legacy and latest mobile operating systems on the most powerful Android emulator online.

Why is Great Mobile User Experience a Key to Business Success?

According to a report by Data Reportal, on average, internet users aged between 16 to 64 spend about six hours, fifty-four minutes a day online, with a majority of it coming from mobile devices. That’s how short your time frame is. That’s how long you have to get your potential customers’ attention, amongst a sea of competitors fighting the same fight.

Furthermore, 98% of these people use a conventional search engine to find the information or the product they need. Most of them use a mobile device to make the first contact. 61% of customers have a higher opinion of companies offering a memorable mobile experience.

Users are looking for immediate gratification , and Google agrees. Amongst the ever-growing number of mobile users, more than 60% of them accept that they make purchase decisions more quickly now than they did a few years ago. These impatient users go searching for local businesses, researching a product, or looking for instructions in micro-moments. These micro-moments might last a split second, but that’s your moment to shine!

According to the Google research linked above-

39% of your user base will stop engaging or coming to your website if the images won’t load or take too long to load.
29% of smartphone users will switch to another site or app if they can’t find the information they are looking for, or it’s not fast enough.
Of those who do switch, 70% switch due to lagging load times.
67% will switch if they have to take too many steps to purchase or get the desired information.

Mobile users tend to be very goal-oriented. They expect to be able to find what they need, immediately and on their terms. They won’t stick around if they have to zoom in or out every time they come across something interesting.

How Do You Create a Superior Mobile User Experience?

The first step to making your website look great on mobile is to link design to business health. The better your website looks on mobile, the greater your business success is going to be. You may be surprised to learn that over half of the companies state that they do not set objectives for their design teams’ output. This is based on a report by McKinsey & Company.

Yes, 94% of the first impressions are always design-related. But mobile-optimization is not just limited to a great design. It’s the matter of making your website more personalized for users and making them feel valued. So, let’s get to the bottom of a memorable mobile user experience!

Online mobile emulators online from LambdaTest allows you to seamlessly test your mobile applications, websites,and web apps on mobile browsers and mobile devices.

Keep It Simple, Silly

The KISS principle might be an old one, but it applies universally, especially for mobile websites. Your desktop website’s effect might differ on your mobile website with all that color and high-resolution images. You need to ensure that your website has mobile parity– it should offer the same experience on desktop and mobile devices.

To begin with, you can-

Keep calls to action at the forefront.
Use responsive navbars like hamburger menus.
Make it easy for users to return to the home page.
Make the search function visible and the results relevant.
Create efficient forms with responsive text fields, visual calendars, and placeholder text-specific input field types.
Remove any non-essential JavaScript weighing down your page load time. Implement lazy loading.
Optimize media by using responsive images, small resolution WebP image format.
Use caching & CDN to enhance page load speed.
Disable heavy animations and page transitions.
Disable auto-play for videos and avoid using video-background altogether.
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to go social — embed social media sharing icons.
Make sure your chatbot is not obtrusive for mobile screens.
Add a smooth scroll for a seamless scrolling experience. — On mobile, half of the users start scrolling within 10 seconds and 90% within 14 seconds. (Stats from MOVR)

@Twitter

Your website does not have to be black and white, but a bit of rework can go a long way in making it suitable for mobile devices. Recently, Revelry relaunched its eCommerce site with an updated platform and smaller images. Now, the loading time is four times faster, the bounce rate is down by 8% percent , and the conversion rate is up by 30%.

Make It Responsive

52% of online shoppers claim that a site’s ability to load quickly influences their loyalty.
Additionally, 74% of people are likely to return to a website that is optimized for mobile.
40% of people will not wait more than three seconds before abandoning your website forever. Your website needs to load fast, and it needs to do it now. That’s simply because 47% of those people expect your website to load in two seconds or less!

Images inspire 53% of online shoppers to make a purchase, but you have to make sure that a picture is not hampering their user experience. Images on your website need to be mobile optimized so that they load quickly. Use a layout capable of adapting to a user’s device, be it the screen size or the capabilities. It becomes essential to perform responsive testing to focus on aesthetics and adaptability based on your consumers’ devices.

Walmart reduced its load time by nearly four seconds by removing several barriers like slow custom fonts and unoptimized image files that hindered the page’s rendering. It experienced a 2% conversion rate increase for every second of improvement.

You must factor in the user’s internet bandwidth and optimize your website for speed. Here’s a guide that will help you test mobile websites on different network conditions.

Let Users Go With The Flow

Your mobile website must allow users to look around and explore before asking them to commit and share their personal information. Users typically get frustrated by sites requiring upfront registration to view the site, mainly when the brand is unfamiliar. If your website does not have a ‘Guest Checkout’ option, you might want to reconsider your decision.

The $300 million button story comes to my mind here, the story of a poorly designed button costing Amazon millions of dollars. Its users were unable to checkout seamlessly; they were prompted to log-in or register to complete their purchase. This entire process was hindering users from checking out faster. Web designers made the mistake of assuming that returning users would have this information at hand, and the new users would not mind signing up as they’d probably come back.

You cannot afford to make assumptions about user behavior. It is essential to understand your customers’ needs, study their behavior and get actionable insights from those observations. The best way to do so is by performing usability testing and visual regression testing daily. See your website through your customers’ eyes, make it a part of your process, use browser for developers like LT Browser, tweak it as and when needed!

Promotions Should Not Be a Distraction

Full-page promotions or ads asking users to perform an action can irk them. Your mobile website needs to be clutter-free. According to a survey conducted by IAB, 54% of users found ad clutter to be the biggest obstacle to a smooth mobile user experience. Your ‘well-placed’ ads might be the very thing putting them off! Interstitial advertisements are particularly off-putting as they make website content less accessible. Interstitials can even impact your search rankings negatively, according to Google.

Instead of an intrusive popup, try promoting subtly and consider using mobile phones’ limited viewport most reasonably. Banner promotions should be easily dismissable and should not distract users from the mobile website experience.

There are countless cases of a UX redesign driving up the revenue and ROI. When HubSpot decided to rethink the user experience of their website, they started at the ground level. With the help of focused research, collaboration, and unwavering customer focus, HubSpot doubled its conversion rates. You can do it too!

Check out this article on what Regression testing is, its importance and types, and how to perform it.

And That’s A Wrap!

This story’s moral goes beyond the risks of putting extra steps in the way of customers taking actions you want them to take. It is essential to understand that even the tiniest-seeming elements of mobile UX can have a substantial trickle-down impact on your profitability. Empirical research into how people behave and what they expect is the need of the hour. Build user personas, create user stories, factor in the Humans principle, start prototyping and implement rigorous testing.

An investment in UX testing can be earned back through a plethora of KPIs, and this theory has been reinforced time and time again. As per a survey by UserZoom, 70% of enterprise CEOs now see UX as a competitive differentiator. That is also why 29% of Enterprises now have a VP of Design or Chief Experience Officer.

With good UX, you will reap the benefits in terms of increased usage, increased productivity, fewer calls to support staff, reduced training time, increased registration rates, and much more. LT Browser can help you do that in the simplest way possible by allowing you to debug your mobile website on 45+ screen sizes, inbuilt debugging tools, and Lighthouse-powered performance reports.

Make it hap’n cap’n!

LT Browser Is Live On Product Hunt!

Kritika — Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:14:03 +0000

Hey everyone! We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve launched LT Browser on Product Hunt! Do check it out and we would absolutely love to see your feedback and suggestions over there.

This launch marks a big step towards our goal of helping developers, designers, product managers, testers, and anybody who wants to ensure that their website looks great across all mobile viewports and desktop resolutions easily and quickly. Wondering how?

LT Browser is a desktop application that will help you instantly View, Build, and Debug your website on 45+ mobile, tablet, & desktop resolutions. Whether it’s an iPhone, iPad, Samsung, or even a MacBook, you get all the resolutions in the LT browser !! You can capture full-page screenshots, record your sessions, mark bugs, debug and test your web app on two devices side by side. If you want to check how your web app is rendering on different viewports and resolutions, LT Browser is your go-to tool.

Think Mobile Debugging, Think LT Browser

LT Browser is a dedicated application that can assist you in making your website responsive across a wide range of screen sizes, view ports, and resolutions. This app will fast track your and move on to one-click live interactive testing.

LT Browser lets you-

Check mobile view of a website on different screen sizes and resolutions, be it Android or iOS.
Test website on different pre-installed mobile device view ports.
Create your own custom device viewport (mobile, tablet & desktop) and save it for future use.
Test on two devices simultaneously and perform mobile website tests on different tablets, and desktop devices and inspect websites on different resolutions simultaneously.
Use inbuilt DevTools to debug multiple devices while performing responsive testing on your devices simultaneously.
Check the mobile view of your website and perform mobile website tests of your local website without any extension or tunnel.
Generate a detailed performance report of your website to analyse key performance metrics, accessibility score, SEO, and a scope to improvise the overall performance.
Mark a bug and share the same with your colleagues on their favorite project management/bug tracking tools such as Jira, Trello, Asana, Github, etc.
Sync two device resolutions by the movement on the primary device.
Allows you to test your website on low to high network profiles with an inbuilt network simulation feature.
Use hot reloading to help you see your changes instantly in real-time.

Here’s a little preview-

What Do You Say?

There you go; that’s what LT Browser is all about. Give it a spin and let us know what you think about the tool? The entire LambdaTest team (and the other Product Hunters) will highly appreciate your feedback.

Last year, we launched Screenshot Scheduler on Product Hunt, and we ranked as the #3 Product of the Day. The biggest benefit has been the feedback that helped us in shaping our product. We’re so fortunate with how helpful our users were in giving us advice and support. We’re continually polishing our product based on the community feedback; with a community like this, we can’t help but improve in leaps and bounds! It will mean a lot for us if you give us your feedback about our product this time too. Join us on Product Hunt and let us know your thoughts – we will highly appreciate it!

See you there!