End-to-end testing
What is modern end-to-end testing?
Modern applications lean on third party plugins, dynamic content, and embedded services. Maybe your site uses an interactive map. Maybe it pulls a newsfeed from a partner, or embeds a syndicated webshop. Proving all of it works is vital.
End-to-end (e2e) testing means testing the complete functionality that touches the end user, not just the parts you built yourself.
What e2e testing has to cover
Content in the UI
User-facing behavior
Behind the scenes
Why is modern e2e testing so critical?
Embedded content and plugins let every team offer rich, satisfying experiences without custom coding every element of a site. That is great news, with one catch.
Users keep getting savvier and less forgiving of errors, while exhaustive manual testing is slow to the point of impossible. Worse, many automation frameworks simply cannot see embedded content at all, which pushes teams straight back to manual checks.
The complete AI-powered e2e solution
Functionize takes a different approach to e2e testing. Rather than driving native desktop applications and installing software on every test machine, we brought the most common e2e scenarios into the cloud.
A suite of web-based tools lets you test not only your application's UI and UX, but also databases, Excel sheets, PDF files, APIs, text messages, emails, and plenty more.
Testing multi factor authentication
Assign an inbox
Grab the message
Extract the code
Log in
Comprehensive API testing
- Save API responses, such as API keys, as variables and reuse them across your test.
- Works with basic authentication, OAuth 2, and proxy authentication.
- A clean UI makes it quick to build custom requests and inspect the responses.
Testing file exports
Plenty of web applications generate files that users download or export, from ticket booking sites to online tax calculators. The File Viewer lets you verify those files as part of your test.
- Supports the most common file types, including PDF, HTML, and Excel.
- Validates the exported file's contents against the data in your web application.
- Lets you assemble complex end-to-end tests in minutes.
Database testing and Extensions
Connect to multiple database types and execute queries mid-test. Verify the contents directly, or store the results to use later in the flow.
Need to go further? Extensions let you power up the platform with reusable code snippets: run mid-flight actions like fetching a valid order number from an external system, host internal libraries in NodeJS, Python, or Go, or trigger externally hosted APIs, such as submitting an order from a POS machine or managing credentials on your own infrastructure.
Test the journey, not just the page
