How AccelQ helps in Testing and Automation on Salesforce, Web & Desktop
As a QA engineer, you've probably felt the frustration of hunting for the right UI elements, dealing with dynamic frames and pop-ups, or struggling with frequent Salesforce updates that break your test scripts. You're not alone.
What if there’s a smarter, more efficient way to tackle these challenges? That’s right—ACCELQ!
So what is AccelQ? It's a cloud-based, AI-driven test automation platform—and in this comprehensive guide, we'll show you how it transforms your testing workflow.
Key Challenges of QA Testing
Test automation sounds great in theory, but in practice, it’s full of roadblocks—especially when dealing with platforms like Salesforce. Here are some common struggles QA teams face:
Building the Right Framework: Designing a test automation framework for Salesforce, web, and desktop applications isn’t straightforward. Each platform presents its own complexities.
Dynamic Elements & Frames: Finding UI elements that constantly change and dealing with pop-ups and iframes can be a nightmare.
No Coding Experience: Many tools require scripting expertise, making it tough for teams without strong programming skills.
Setting Up a Test Environment: Configuring the right test bed and managing integrations can slow down testing cycles.
Managing Test Data & Scripts: Where do you store test cases, scripts, and documentation? Keeping things organized.
Backup & Recovery Issues: Losing test data due to errors or updates can be a major setback.
Tracking User Activity & Enitity Change History: QA teams need visibility into what’s changing in the system and how those changes impact tests.
Maintaining Test Scripts for AUTs: Keeping Up with test scripts for every single update for AUT (Application Under Test).
Reporting & Stakeholder Communication: Generating meaningful test reports and keeping leadership informed is crucial.
Merging Functional, UI, API, and DB Testing: Without the right tool, running multiple types of tests on a single platform can become messy.
So, how does AccelQ automation address these pain points? Let’s find out.
Understanding the AccelQ Ecosystem
AccelQ automation tool and management platform is designed to handle complex Salesforce testing, web, and desktop automation with a codeless approach. AccelQ platform leverages AI to automate and manage software testing, enabling us to work on even the most intricate scenarios across various platforms.
AccelQ Product Line
Automate Web is a codeless architecture providing test automation solutions for Web, desktop, and mainframe applications. AccelQ uses Lifecycle Automation, which fully integrates automation into every stage of the test lifecycle (design, development, execution, and analysis).
Automate API is a comprehensive solution for API testing that brings Regression level maturity to the process and allows seamless integration between API and functional testing.
Automate Mobile offers a solution to automate mobile application testing, enabling support across various mobile devices and operating systems. Its portable element allows you to run the same tests on both iOS and Android platforms.
AccelQ Manual offers a complete solution for manual testing and test management, with a flexible and adaptable approach due to its modular structure and broad integration capabilities.
AccelQ Unified: One for All - Web, API, Mobile & Manual.
Note: AccelQ Unified is an amalgamation of the other 4 products.
Why does AccelQ stand out?
AccelQ enables seamless two-way integration with bug-tracking tools like JIRA, TFS, etc. And also offers native CI/CD plugin support for Jenkins, Bamboo, and other plugins that make this platform quite ubiquitous amongst other available test automation platforms in the market.
One can even automate the complete quality lifecycle, commencing with test planning and ending with test execution or change management.
Image 1: Illustrates each stage of the quality lifecycle using the AccelQ platform.
Image 1: Quality Lifecycle Test Management and Automation
Credit: AccelQ academy documentation
Along with the above-illustrated features, AccelQ has a lot more in the bucket to show:
It embeds UI, functional, and API testing on the same chair that allows you to practice (test) it on the same simplified flow.
In-built support for SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) and REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs gives the platform a unique strength. Even providing flexibility to execute DB (database) testing on it.
Overall, this means that AccelQ allows you to execute white-box testing.
By default, ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is integrated with AccelQ for test execution and advanced reporting. It has a cloud-hosted infrastructure, i.e., directly proportional to Saucelabs (world’s largest continuous testing cloud for web & mobile applications) and BrowserStack.
The notable functionalities of AccelQ
Universe automatically creates a visualized blueprint for the application based on designed scenarios and actions. This gives a big relief to QA & BA to develop more scenarios between two or more distinct pages.
One can effortlessly discover and add unique elements to the repository with a snapshot of the page.
Note: Use AccelQ - View Recorder Chrome Extension to analyze and capture the view.
Encrypt your password with AccelQ's “Encrypted Password Generator” functionality when needed to provide confidential information.
AccelQ allows cross-browser testing on different OS with a single RUN.
It does not fail the test script on frequent changes to the element but uses the inbuilt power of AI to locate the element and keep it running.
How AccelQ Excels at Salesforce Testing
After working with various testing tools, we've found that AccelQ offers a clear view of Salesforce testing, and we'll share why AccelQ truly shines.
As we all know, when the Salesforce page renders on the browser, unlike any other HTML page, it processes all dynamic content on the server side. So finding and automating Salesforce’s dynamic elements, contents, and handling dynamic tables is quite challenging with other tools. But AccelQ has a solution for this. It uses AI-driven neighborhood analysis techniques to provide better support for handling complex and dynamic content.
Salesforce is a large enterprise platform, and it loads the content in independent dynamic frames and pop-ups. For this, QA Automation engineer has to put some additional coding efforts and time into finding the right attributes to perform actions outside the default frame. So here AccelQ again assists in this issue by handling dynamic frames and pop-ups without writing any code.
Let's talk about its other striking functionalities
1. Comprehensive Salesforce Support
Full compatibility with Lightning, Classic, and VisualForce pages.
Streamlined release quality management.
Automated business process validation across Salesforce modules.
Native support for Salesforce metadata.
2. Available on AppExchange
As an AppExchange-certified solution, AccelQ offers seamless integration with your Salesforce environment, making it a natural choice for Salesforce testing needs.
3. All-in-One Testing Solution
As a QA automation engineer, it's easy to manage when we get all our solutions via a single platform. AccelQ brings together multiple testing capabilities on a single platform:
UI and functional testing.
API testing (SOAP and REST).
Database testing capabilities.
Cross-browser testing support.
Final Thought
Finding the right testing platform can feel like searching for a needle in a haystack. You're juggling Salesforce updates, complex web applications, and maybe even some desktop apps, all while trying to keep up with the speed of agile development. It can get overwhelming very quickly.
But AccelQ simplifies all of that. It's like having a Swiss Army knife for test automation — codeless, AI-powered, and built to handle everything from Salesforce to web to desktop.
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