Mobile Testing With Parasoft SOAtest

The customer journey spans multiple interfaces through the application, not just mobile or web. As organizations move toward mobile-first development initiatives, the mobile experience must continue to interact with the following types of interfaces:

• Those operated by people like desktop, web, and packaged applications.
• Technology that works behind the scenes like APIs, web services, direct database communication.

Testing each of these in isolation only provides part of the picture.

To help users understand the subtle interactions between these interfaces that impact the overall customer experience, Parasoft SOAtest combines these channels together to create stable, reusable end-to-end tests that can be easily automated: omnichannel tests.
Omnichannel tests comprehensively cover the application’s use cases to ensure thorough test coverage by interweaving API and database tests into the validation of mobile and web UI interactions with Appium. Through this connected workflow, you can exchange data across the interfaces as you test and aggregate the results into a single report that will help you address the challenge of fully testing the entire application.

In addition to integrating Java-based Appium scripts into multichannel test scenarios, users can interact with their native UI or website as rendered on Android or iOS, all while SOAtest is recording traffic associated with those actions to create meaningful API test suites using artificial intelligence. These API scenario tests simulate the end-to-end business flows from a UI but are testing the APIs powering the mobile application directly. As a result, they’re easier to scale up for high-variance data or high-load testing requirements and much easier to automate than their corresponding UI-based tests.

To comprehensively test the multiple interfaces in applications, you need access to the complete test environment and the ability to fill in gaps when internal and backend components are unavailable, unstable, or don’t have required data. Parasoft SOAtest’s seamless integration with Parasoft Virtualize gives users complete control of their mobile test environment by creating virtual representations of any service and then loading virtual services with the correct data characteristics and performance profiles needed to validate test scenarios and deploy them as needed during testing.

To help reduce late-cycle defects, service virtualization helps users expose unexpected behaviors at any layer of the application—from a misbehaving button in a mobile app to a security flaw in the business logic. To produce desired behavior at any time, users can create a virtual environment designed to expose that behavior and build the simulation into the continuous testing strategy to thoroughly test the application.