Welcome back to the new Sauce Labs series ‘Every Experience Matters Stat of the Week.” In last week’s edition, we mentioned that about a quarter of consumers encounter an error or bug every day. While this indicated that errors are quite common overall, we didn’t dive deeper into how a customer may react when encountering those bugs. Are customers as forgiving as we might hope? Sadly, that is not the case. The results are dubious, to say the least.

Two popular mobile test automation tools are Selendroid and Appium. Both are loved by the developer community, and for good reason. In fact, they’re so popular that Selendroid is currently bundled into the Appium package in order to provide support for Android versions 2.3 through 4.1. Appium automatically switches to Selendroid when users want to run tests for these Android versions.

Open banking is a natural evolution in the API economy. By laying the foundation for web platform and mobile developers to build third-party products and services using any number of public (open) APIs, banks, financial services and insurance companies are ushering in next-generation customer experiences that are more frictionless and personalized.

The OWASP API Security Top 10 identifies the top API vulnerabilities that pose the greatest risk to mobile, web and SaaS applications as well as internal, partner and external API programs, highlighting which vulnerabilities must be detected and mitigated promptly. Gartner predicts that APIs that expose private information such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII) will be the most common attack vector in 2022.

Sauce Labs believes in a simple truth: your customers expect a flawless experience every time they interact with your software. We’ve mapped this out in our new customer report: Every Experience Matters. Within the report, you will find a deep dive into customer behavior and how it pertains to digital activity. The bottom line is that when customers experience bugs within a company’s web page or mobile apps, they become less likely to return.

Today Sauce Labs announced the findings of its "Every Experience Matters" report, based on responses from 1500 consumers in the US, UK, and Germany, to gauge the modern browsing and online engagement experience. In short, we dive into how users are reacting when they use your website or app.

You just finished creating your web application and want to clean it from any possible bugs, imperfections, and performance issues. But you feel a bit overwhelmed with the choice of testing tools and frameworks and the articles singing their praises. In this article, we will explore using Selenium with Python for test automation.

Interdependence and collaboration between businesses and commercial sectors have changed in recent years with the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). APIs have been around long enough for companies to know that they can use open web technologies to extend their services via in-app integrations. APIs allow two programs to communicate with one another and exchange data in a smooth manner. Once an API has been created, it is vital to test the interface to ensure that it is functional.

Developers test their code in chunks as it is written. Error monitoring during the development cycle alerts engineers when conflicts arise and helps them identify the root cause. So, you may wonder then, in the age of DevOps and continuous delivery, is end-to-end testing still needed? Not only is it viable, but it is also essential to validate requirements, configurations, and functionality.

With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.