Rainforest QA

E2E Test Automation Service Moving as Fast as Your Product Team

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Description

Rainforest QA offers a comprehensive solution for end-to-end (E2E) test automation focused on web applications. It blends a user-friendly, no-code testing platform with a dedicated Test Manager service. This approach allows teams to achieve significant test coverage quickly, often up to three times faster than engineers using traditional open-source frameworks. The platform utilizes AI for accelerating test creation and maintenance, including self-healing capabilities that automatically update tests when the application UI changes, reducing brittleness and false positives.

The service emphasizes testing the application's visual layer, mimicking how real users interact with the interface, rather than just testing the underlying code. This ensures the actual user experience is validated. Rainforest QA provides detailed debugging information, including video replays and logs, integrates with standard CI/CD pipelines and communication tools like Slack and Jira, and runs tests in parallel on its cloud infrastructure for fast results. The combination of the platform's AI features and the expert Test Manager aims to take the burden of test writing and maintenance off development teams, allowing them to ship code faster and with more confidence.

Key Features

Test Automation Services: A dedicated Test Manager handles test creation, maintenance, and result verification.
AI-Accelerated Testing: Utilizes AI to speed up workflows and provide self-healing test maintenance.
No-Code Test Automation Platform: Enables test creation in plain English without coding.
Visual-First UI Testing: Interacts with the application's visual layer, testing the actual user experience.
Parallel Cloud Execution: Runs tests massively in parallel on virtual machines for results in minutes.
Detailed Debugging Insights: Provides video replays, steps, logs, and AI summaries for test failures.
CI/CD and Tool Integration: Connects with popular CI/CD pipelines, Jira, Slack, Microsoft Teams, and offers an API/CLI.
Test Portability: Offers the ability to export created tests for use in Playwright.

Use Cases

Automating end-to-end testing for SaaS and web applications.
Increasing software release velocity by removing QA bottlenecks.
Scaling QA capacity quickly without hiring full-time engineers.
Improving test reliability and reducing false positives through visual and AI-assisted testing.
Ensuring application quality and user experience before deployment.
Offloading test creation and maintenance to expert managers.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Rainforest Test Manager?

Rainforest Test Managers are vetted QA experts, experienced with the Rainforest platform, who are dedicated to your account. They handle test creation, maintenance, review test failures, and communicate with your team, effectively taking E2E test management off your team's plate.

How is Rainforest test automation different?

Rainforest uses a proprietary, no-code framework focused on interacting with the visual elements of the UI, testing what users see. It also uses generative AI for automatic test maintenance (self-healing) and can test elements outside the browser window on virtual machines.

Are automated tests created in Rainforest portable?

Yes, if you decide to leave Rainforest, your automated tests can be exported into a format implementable in Playwright.

What apps can Rainforest test?

Rainforest QA is optimized for testing web applications like SaaS apps. It can interact with anything visible on a Windows or macOS screen (including downloaded files or browser extensions), but is not suitable for full-motion video or highly dynamic content like games.

Does your AI make mistakes?

While constantly improving, AI can make mistakes. Rainforest uses a novel approach to improve reliability and provides an experienced Test Manager who reviews AI work, corrects issues, and handles maintenance the AI doesn't cover, ensuring test result confidence.