Testing workflows just got an upgrade! Autonomous 2.1 simplifies end-to-end testing by offering faster test creation and maintenance while expanding mobile support. This release focuses on improving the efficiency and flexibility of your testing processes with features designed to simplify workflows, enhance modularity, and provide greater control.
Let’s explore the highlights of this release and how they can benefit your end-to-end testing.
Key Features in Autonomous 2.1
Modular Test Design
Create a test once and reuse it across multiple workflows, eliminating the need to duplicate steps. This not only saves time but also ensures consistency and reduces the risk of errors. By enhancing reusability, this feature significantly accelerates test creation and simplifies maintenance, particularly for workflows shared across teams.
Use case example: Faster test authoring in Banking
For financial institutions, reusing a shared “User Login” test across workflows like “Fund Transfer,” “Loan Application,” and “Account Overview” simplifies test maintenance and ensures consistency. Autonomous 2.1 empowers teams to avoid recreating login steps for each flow, saving time and enhancing reliability.
Simplify Test Maintenance
Easily modularize your testing process by extracting repeated steps into standalone tests. This feature simplifies maintenance and improves by allowing your team to maintain one test and apply those updates to wherever you may be reusing extracted test flows. With fewer errors and a more streamlined test design, your team can focus on delivering quality faster.
Learn how to build no-code, autonomous end-to-end tests and explore some of these new features in our upcoming webinar, Building No-Code Autonomous End-End Tests
Record Functional Assertions
Record functional assertions directly within your tests to ensure critical content is displayed accurately, without requiring manual scripting. This capability is especially valuable for localization efforts, enabling teams to validate translated content on multilingual websites. By reducing setup complexity, testers can achieve faster and more accurate validations.
Use case example: Maintain compliance with localization
On multilingual websites, recording textual assertions ensures translated content (e.g., terms and conditions, error messages) is displayed correctly. This is crucial for maintaining legal compliance and providing a seamless user experience in different languages.
Make Responsive Testing Easier
Ensure cross-device compatibility by configuring display viewport sizes—such as mobile, tablet, or even a custom size—directly in your custom flow tests. This ensures accurate validations across devices, making it ideal for e-commerce businesses and other industries prioritizing multi-device compatibility. Streamlining these configurations reduces setup time and ensures your users have a seamless experience across platforms and devices.
Pro tip: While Applitools Ultrafast Grid lets you run the same test across multiple browsers and devices, we recommend creating separate tests for specific screen sizes when unique screen elements, like a hamburger menu, appear only on certain viewports.
Flexibility in Test Configuration
We’ve decoupled the application and plan from individual tests, offering greater flexibility and a more intuitive workflow for configuring tests independently. You can now run tests ad-hoc—even trigger test execution via the REST API—and configure run properties like parameters, browsers, devices, and concurrency limits. This change not only enhances the user experience but also lays the groundwork for advanced capabilities in future releases, ensuring a scalable and adaptable testing environment.
And There’s More…
Autonomous 2.1 lets you navigate more intuitively with an updated interface reflecting application hierarchy and copy tests across applications while preserving reusable flows. For added security, sensitive test data like passwords is now encrypted and masked, and TOTP support for 2FA enables secure workflows with Time-Based One-Time Passwords.
Try Autonomous 2.1 for Free With Your Team
With Autonomous 2.1, you’ll experience faster test creation and simplified maintenance, particularly for workflows reused across multiple teams or applications. This release represents a significant step toward more efficient, scalable, and user-friendly testing processes.
Try out Autonomous 2.1 for free with your team and see how it can revolutionize your testing efforts.
