Automate Tests with Copado Robotic Testing

Learning Objectives

After completing this unit, you’ll be able to:

Describe Copado Robotic Testing and how it addresses common testing challenges.
List the features and benefits of Copado Robotic Testing.
Identify the capabilities of Copado TestAgent.

Copado Robotic Testing

As you’ve learned, implementing an agile testing-automation strategy is key to delivering quality software quickly. It empowers teams to continually improve software performance during constant technological change. But despite this, many businesses continue to balk. Why? Because they think scaling test automation—specifically for Salesforce—is a complex, time-consuming, and costly task.

That’s where Copado Robotic Testing comes in. Copado Robotic Testing—available on Salesforce AppExchange—is a cloud-based AI-powered, end-to-end testing solution that makes scaling test automation for Salesforce easy. Watch this short video to see Robotic Testing in action.

Here’s how Copado Robotic Testing helps businesses overcome common testing challenges.

Flexibility	Robotic Testing supports testing across multiple platforms and services and devices, which helps ensure seamless deployments across environments. A 100% cloud-based infrastructure allows businesses to scale up or down and global teams to easily collaborate on testing efforts from anywhere.
Efficiency	Advanced AI-powered features such as test generation, self-healing tests, and Smart Run Analysis powered by TestAgent boost testing speed without sacrificing accuracy. (You learn more about TestAgent later in this unit.) Real-time dashboards and detailed analytics give teams the insights they need to quickly identify bottlenecks and improve test strategies. Because Copado Robotic Testing tests won’t break as a result of code or layout changes, teams aren’t burdened with time-consuming test maintenance, even for frequent Salesforce upgrades and deployments.
Integration	Seamless integration with continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines ensures that automated tests are easily embedded into the development lifecycle. The open-API architecture of Copado Robotic Testing works smoothly with other software-development tools and fits into existing IT infrastructures. Robotic Testing integrates with other version-control systems such as GitHub, which lets teams manage test scripts alongside their application code.
Scalability	Low-code/no-code capabilities simplify the creation and maintenance of test scripts, which expands an organization’s test capabilities. By supporting parallel test execution, Copado Robotic Testing reduces the time required for test cycles, which enables fast feedback and debugging and allows for large-scale testing within tight time frames.
Comprehensiveness	Robotic Testing reduces risk by providing thorough testing across a wide range of testing types, including regression, user interface (UI), and application programming interface (API). Businesses release with confidence knowing that Copado Robotic Testing complies with industry standards and regulatory requirements.

Now that you have a big-picture view of how Copado Robotic Testing helps businesses break through testing roadblocks, we’re ready to dive into the details and explore the testing platform’s specific features and benefits.

Copado Robotic Testing Features and Benefits

With Copado Robotic Testing, you can easily create and manage test cases using simple action words called QWords. Plus, it comes with a handy editor called QEditor and offers live testing and UI recording, which even auto-generates test scripts for you.

QWords

‌QWords, which are provided by QWord libraries, are keywords that have been pulled from the underlying code and help testers to write test cases with high readability, usability, maintainability, and robustness.

A screenshot showing QWords.

QWords offer standardized, ready-to-use implementations for testing. They eliminate the need for custom, complex implementations and allow organizations to efficiently scale up test-automation efforts. ‌Here are a few examples of QWords and their actions.

ClickText: Click text (button, link, and so on) on a screen.
TypeText: Write to an input field.
VerifyText: Verify that some text appears on a screen.

QEditor

QEditor is a powerful test-case editor that allows you to create and modify test scripts. With QEditor, testers can add, delete, and edit test cases; create new files and folders; save or commit changes; and launch live testing sessions.

Screenshot of QEditor.

Live Testing and UI Recording

Copado Robotic Testing also offers live-testing and UI-recording capabilities so that testers can see and get feedback on user interactions and test steps in real time. Based on those actions, Robotic Testing automatically generates test scripts.

Screenshot of UI testing.

While these features are pretty impressive, there’s another advanced feature of Copado Robotic Testing that accelerates test automation even further: Copado TestAgent.

Copado TestAgent

Powered by CopadoGPT, TestAgent uses AI to simplify test creation, management, and execution—especially for Salesforce applications. It converses with users during the test-creation process to understand intent. Then, it provides real-time guidance by suggesting test scripts and test cases based on application changes and offering optimizations for existing tests.

With TestAgent, teams get:

Streamlined conversations that ensure comprehensive test coverage	The conversational interface allows users to interact with the AI naturally while clarifying requirements, refining test parameters, and ensuring the test meets business goals. Rather than storing conversation history, TestAgent operates according to a session-based model, which provides access to recent messages.
A user-friendly interface and efficiency tools that increase go-to-market speed without sacrificing quality	An enhanced QEditor UI within TestAgent puts test-related assets, settings, and features right at users’ fingertips. With auto-completion of test scripts, intelligent error detection, and contextual help, teams reduce the time and effort typically required to create and maintain robust test suites.
Integration with Development Operations (DevOps) platforms that boosts productivity and reduces costs	TestAgent ensures that tests are aligned with existing development workflows and CI/CD pipelines for faster, high-quality deployments. By automating testing within the development lifecycle, teams eliminate the need for costly resources required for manual testing.

These capabilities make TestAgent a perfect solution for testing complex applications in agile settings in which speed and flexibility are key!

In the next unit, we introduce you to Copado Explorer, a feature of Copado Robotic Testing that bridges the gap between manual and automated testing for Salesforce development teams.

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