Organizations strive to deliver the best possible digital experience to their customers. One way to ensure this is by testing their applications, and many organizations perform functional testing to verify that the application behavior is working correctly. However, there are areas that functional testing cannot cover. This is where visual testing comes in.

In recent years, there’s been a shift towards JavaScript test automation frameworks. Today many Sauce Labs customers are using Cypress, TestCafe, Puppeteer and most recently Playwright.

When creating a mobile application, organisations have a few options to choose from; mobile web, native or a hybrid application. Where web apps are just websites that can be accessed on the internet via a mobile browser like Chrome or Safari, native apps are applications that are developed for a specific platform such as Android or iOS. Hybrid apps are different because they possess elements from native apps and web apps.

In this video, Nikolay Advolodkin gives you a live demo showing how to get set up with live (also known as manual) testing on Sauce Labs.

As organizations begin planning for a post-COVID world, technology will play a critical role in rebuilding our economies. In this 2021 Emerging Tech Fest plenary address, Aled Miles, president and CEO of Sauce Labs and Welsh Government Envoy to the US, sits down with numerous industry luminaries to discuss the importance of digital confidence and how emerging technologies can help create a more prosperous future.