Software testing is evolving rapidly, thanks to the boost offered by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Tasks that were once laboriously done by testers are now effortlessly done by machines. This reality is possible because of intelligent tools like Testsigma.

Let’s take a look at this powerful AI-based tool and see how it simplifies software testing.

What is Testsigma?

Testsigma is a cloud-based tool that integrates with your existing development process which makes it easier to manage and automate your testing efforts. It’s versatile features make it easy for different team members to collaborate effectively. It’s especially good for Agile teams because it allows for easy tracking of progress, managing test cases, and ensuring that your software meets quality standards.

Features of Testsigma

You can perform testing tasks using the following:

  • Intuitive UI: The platform is interactive and offers a variety of features and addons for you to choose from. This helps make automated testing easier to understand for all.
  • Manage and Execute Tests in One: You can use Testsigma to manage your test cases, create test suites and plans, while also automating said test cases.
  • No-Code Test Creation in Natural Language: Instead of writing complex scripts, you can create test cases in plain English. For example, your test steps can look as simple as “click on Login Icon”. This no-code approach is especially helpful for teams where not everyone is familiar with programming.
  • Generative AI-Assisted Test Generation: Testsigma’s Copilot uses advanced language models to help you with automated test case generation by analyzing multiple inputs like user stories and even Figma designs. You can even get API tests generated from JSON inputs. Interact with Copilot by simply using prompts or selecting suggested scenarios, and have auto-generated tests in seconds.
  • CI/CD Integration: Testsigma integrates with your CI/CD pipeline (tools like Jenkins or GitHub Actions), so every time you deploy new code, it triggers automated tests without manual intervention.
  • Advanced Reporting and Analytics: After tests are run, you can access real-time reports showing which tests passed, failed, or were skipped. This helps you quickly find problems and fix them before releasing the product.
  • Support for Different Types of Testing: Testsigma supports different testing types like regression testing, visual testing, API testing, data-driven testing, cross-browser testing, parallel testing, accessibility testing, mobile testing, and more.
  • Smart Test Maintenance: As your software changes, the AI can suggest updates or modifications to your tests to keep them aligned with your application. This is helpful when the codebase evolves, reducing the manual effort of constantly updating tests. Testsigma automatically detects element issues and remaps them.
  • Integrations with Popular Tools: Testsigma integrates seamlessly with popular tools like GitHub, GitLab, JIRA and other tools, which makes it easy to run tests after code is pushed or merged.
  • Test Data Management: You can create tests that run with different sets of data (like different user credentials or form inputs). This allows you to test your application under various scenarios to ensure it works as expected in all cases.
  • Parallel Testing: You can run tests on multiple environments and browsers at the same time, speeding up test execution. This is particularly useful for cross-browser testing.
  • Test Across Multiple Devices: You can test your app on different devices, browsers, and operating systems to make sure it works well for all users. AI can optimize which devices and browsers should be tested based on usage patterns.
  • Team Collaboration: Since the test cases are written in plain language, everyone on the team can participate in creating, reviewing, and maintaining them, whether they are technical or non-technical.
  • Role-Based Access Control: Testsigma allows you to control who has access to different parts of the tool, making it easy to manage large teams and projects.

Creating Tests with Testsigma

Testsigma’s interactive UI helps you build test cases fast. Here’s a quick overview of how you can do it.

The Testsigma UI can be viewed as different parts:

  • Dashboard: By default, you’ll land here. Widgets to relevant information about test runs will be here.
  • Left Menu: Here, you can find different options to manage and function within your profile. Some important ones are:
    • Create: Nestled in the left menu is the ‘Create’ option. From here, you can create different types of entities like test cases, requirements, projects, and more.
    • Settings: These are for your profile.

Apart from these, you will find quick links to your dashboard, project settings, Addons, and more.

Let’s look at simple scenario of creating test cases in TestSigma to understand the basic flow of the tool.

As soon as you login, you will see your dashboard.

Create a new test case from the left panel menu.

On the screen where you provide details for the test case you want to create, you will see that you have two options – to create tests manually or to use the record-and-playback tool. In this section, we will create the test manually.

On the test editor screen, there are a few useful features that expedite test creation. Every test step has an auto-suggest that prompts the next step.

As you start typing, the autosuggest gives a list of natural language test steps that you can select from.

After selecting a test step from this list, you can edit the test data and element. Testsigma supports different types of test data.

Clicking on the element will open a side panel where you can either add a new UI element or choose from the existing list. When creating a new element, you have different identifier options like XPath, id, link text, CSS Selector, etc.

In this way, you can create test cases using Testsigma. They have Chrome extensions for different operations like record-and-playback and element identification which you can use.

You can also choose where you want to execute your test case.

Conclusion

Testsigma is a great tool that simplifies test creation, smoothly runs your tests, and makes it easy for teams to collaborate on quality assurance without needing deep technical knowledge. It saves time, reduces errors, and helps ensure software quality.