12 Must Try Features of Automated Screenshot Testing on TestMu AI

1. Testing Locally Hosted Websites

TestMu AI offers a tunnel to establish an SSH(Secure Shell) connection between your machine to our cloud servers. With TestMu AI Tunnel, you can perform cross browser testing of your website even before you go live.

To perform cross browser testing on your locally hosted website or web app, you need to configure the TestMu AI Tunnel. You can do so by using the Configure Tunnel button highlighted in the below image.

The string used for configuring tunnel goes with the below syntax:

LT -user {username} -key {access key}

For more information refer to our documentation on TestMu AI Tunnel.

2. In-Built Image Editor

So you have captured automated screenshot in bulk to monitor any cross browser compatibility issue. What happens when you encounter one? Well, our in-built image editor tool would help to highlight any UI deviation in the captured screenshots.

You can use various geometrical shapes, crayons, text in different colours from the left-hand menu. In case you go wrong, you can always use the eraser or the undo button.

3. One-Click Bug Logging

After you are done highlighting the cross browser compatibility issue with our in-built image editor. Comes the time to share that screenshot with your developer team or colleagues. It would be a hassle to download the image from TestMu AI to your machine and then upload it to your respective bug tracking tool while logging a case/task for a teammate.

However, TestMu AI offers a feature to help you mark a bug with only a single click effort. TestMu AI offers integrations with numerous third-party bug-tracking tools such as Jira, Asana, Trello, Paymo and many more. Now, you can log a bug or your UI observation to your respective bug tracking tool directly from TestMu AI.

Check out all our integrations and feel free to suggest us if we are missing out on your favourite bug tracking tool.

When you hit Mark as Bug button, a form related to your bug tracking instance would open up. Fill the needful details and hit the button to Create Bug. This would log the screenshot with your provided details in the respective bug tracking instance. In the above case I committed an integration with Trello, so the bug would log in the same.

4. Get Shareable Link

So mark as a bug would only help you save a single screenshot. What if you want to share all your automated screenshots? Well, we offer an option on the output screen which says Share ScreenshotsAs you click on it, a window would open as shown below.

You can enter the particular email ID of your colleague along with a message you want to highlight. You can also set the validity of your results. Wish to share the result using IM(Instant Messaging) and not Email?

Click on Get Shareable Link and find the URL which would guide you or your colleague straight to the output of your automated screenshot test.

5. Basic Authentication For Password Protected Websites Or Web App

You must be wondering how to capture automated screenshots for password-protected websites?

Well, TestMu AI automated screenshot testing offers a feature called basic authentication to help you with that. I have highlighted the option in the below image.

Once you provide the necessary details, hit ‘SAVE’. You will notice the basic authentication enabled(indicated with a blue color dot). If you run the test now, you will find results for your password-protected website(keep in mind the URL).

With this Screenshot Testing Tutorial, you will learn how to perform Automated Screenshot Testing on the TestMu AI platform.

6. Save Selected Browsers For Quick Screenshot Testing

If you have a specific test script which you use more frequently than others then selecting 25 combinations of browser, OS and device to test your responsive website then it could be exhausting and a bit annoying. Using our Quick Save feature, you can save those favourite configurations under a list. Also, you can save up to 3 lists, allowing you to save 75 combinations of browser, OS, and device.

To save a list, you need to select one from the drop-down menu. Select your favorite configurations and hit the Star button.

Once you save a list, you can quickly select all those configurations by selecting the respective list from the drop-down.

This is one of the most requested features by our users and has helped them significantly pace up their cross browser testing.

7. Email Me On Completion

Generating automated bulk screenshots can take up to around a minute or two. The time could vary depending on the size of your website. So, if you are performing cross browser testing on a website which consists of high-quality images, heavy I-frames, infinite scrolling and so on. The time consumption for completing an automated screenshot test on such websites can be more than usual.

Similarly, if you use a light weighted website then the time taken to complete a test session, could even be under a minute. To wait for your output could be a bit inconvenient sometimes. However, you can fix that by going to your preferences and checking the box for “Email me on completion”

This way you can start a test and perform other activities simultaneously. Once your test would complete then you will receive an email on your email ID used for registration at TestMu AI.

8. History Or Recent Test Sessions

Easily review the output of last or recently performed test sessions by using automated screenshot testing on TestMu AI. TestMu AI records the configurations of your last performed test session so you could come back and analyze them through your convenience.

9. Responsive Testing On A Variety Of Screen Resolutions

If you wish to perform a round of automated screenshot testing on a specific screen resolution then you can set that resolution under your preference for the test session. Go through this software testing question to understand how to check screen resolution.

You can select different resolutions from OSX:

Similarly, you can set resolutions from Windows:

Note: These resolutions would only work for desktop devices. If you wish to test responsiveness on various mobile devices at one then make sure you use our feature for Responsive Testing.