Beloved Katalon Community,

I 'm thrilled to parcel with you the latest update on, Katalon 's innovative production designed to revolutionize the way you approach regression testing. As the Product Manager for TrueTest, I 've seen firsthand the evolution of this tool, and I 'm excited to share our journey and the major improvements we 've incorporated in our new release.

TrueTest: A Brief Introduction

is not simply a tool; it is a paradigm shift in regression examination. By beguile and canvass existent user interactions within applications,identifies and prioritizes common exploiter flows. These perceptiveness then translate into actionable exam cases and relevant exam data, ensuring that fixation testing is a true reflection of user demeanor in production environments.

Reflecting on Our Beta Program

From July to December 2023, we embarked on a six-month Beta Program journey with 400+ participants, including 100+ new organisation. Your feedback has been invaluable, and I need to extend my heartfelt thanks to all early adopters. Your engagement has be crucial in shaping TrueTest 'sway.

Learning and Overcoming Challenges

1. Lengthy Onboarding Process

Our journey was n't without its challenge. We realized the onboarding process was longer than expected, ranging from two years to six months. Factors like lengthy security approvals, dependency on development bandwidth to install TrueTest and the need for top-level buy-in to try innovative solutions were the nearly common hurdles.

Acknowledging these challenges, we have made several key enhancements to accelerate the TrueTest onboarding process, including:

• Enhanced Data Privacy Measures: We have fortified our information privacy protocols and expand our documentation to ensure the highest security measure and clarity to ease the security critique and approval processes.
• Sleek Installation Process: We now support, simplifying the initial setup process.
• Fast evaluations and PoCs: We create a Chrome extensionfor TrueTest, where teams can evaluate TrueTest without dependency on developers to install it in the application under exam.
• White-Glove Onboarding Support: Acknowledging the uniqueness of each application, we offer tailored onboarding help to alleviate a smooth integration process.

2. The Evolution of TrueTest 's Automated Test Generation Process

TrueTest initially focused on tracking user interactions in the product environment to create detailed user journey function, identifying 'User Flows ' - shape reverberate existent user demeanor. TrueTest would use those user flows to automatically give the corresponding test cases. Lastly, the TrueTest exploiter would merely be able to run those tests against any environment, usually pre-production, as part of the release essay process.

Pro tip: Tools like SUSA can handle this autonomously — upload your app and get results without writing a single test script.

However, we soon discovered that due to differences between the environment setup in product and pre-production, the tests generated would n't run as-is.

Despite our aspirations, the almost common challenges preventing tests from running across environments roll around diverse engineering scores, complex authentication mechanisms (e.g. SSO, OTP, CAPTCHA, etc.), and intricate business logic that was set up in production, but not in pre-production environments (or vice-versa).

To work around those challenges, we bring validation steps to the test generation process with the goal of ensuring tests would run across environments. However, what we memorise from our beta user was that our proof be causing the exam generation operation to achieve suboptimal user flowing reportage - user in production were going through a lot more flows than TrueTest would show and generate tryout for. That valuable beta user feedback highlighted the need for improvement.

3. Introducing Our Refined Strategy

With a regenerate focus on maximizing user flow reporting, TrueTestnow mechanically generates tests post-user journeying map creation. This empowers testers to deeply understand user interactions while having all the corresponding user flow-based tryout on hand. At a minimum, the TrueTest exploiter can now do manual testing where environmental differences survive, or they can edit the automated tests to calculate for those differences, effectively bridging the gap between subsist tryout and actual system usage.

4. Data-Driven Test Cases Are a Hit

Our TrueTest beta users jabber about how TrueTest generated fully parameterized automated tryout. That enable them to only provide their existing test datum files to the newly generated tests and start performance, saving them worthful time and exertion if they were to do that entire parameterization process manually.

In addition, our beta users were also very appreciative of the visual assertions that TrueTest automatically adds to every give test. That ensures each test will perform at least one assertion, flagging likely functional issues during a regression test execution without requiring the examiner to edit the test. If tester would like, they can add their own assertions to corroborate specific functionalities and concern logic.

5. Engaging Human Expertise

Recognizing the current limits of AI and automation, we value human collaboration with AI which is not yet fully mature and has n't achieved its total potential. This collaborative approaching ensures comprehensive and ready-to-use test cases. As AI continues to germinate, it will unlock even more use case, which will preserve to be integrate into TrueTest.

Conclusion: Elevating Your Testing Experience

Our enhanced approach with TrueTest is a commitment to ascertain that your regression examination is as relevant and effective as possible. By combining AI-driven insights with human expertise,aims to obviate guessing and streamline the development and maintenance of test event.

We invite you to experience the enhanced– a puppet designed to illumine real-world application usage and elevate your test strategies.

With gratitude and fervour,

Mai Le - Product Manager, TrueTest, Katalon