What do Walmart, Chase, and Airbnb have in common?
They are industry leaders with top-rated mobile apps, delivering exceptional digital experiences that delight customers and drive revenue. These brands make it look easy!
However, releasing new app versions–whether it's weekly, monthly or less frequently– is far from simple. Even the smallest issue can impact a customer's ability to engage, driving users to abandon your app and leading to reduced engagement and churn. So, how do these top brands achieve such high standards? They prioritize continuous quality, taking special consideration for visual UI testing. That is why we are excited to announce the launch of Sauce Visual for Mobile, now supporting native mobile app UI testing!
This launch comes at a critical time as mobile app usage has skyrocketed with over 275 billion app downloads globally, a 12% increase since last year. With 75% of mobile development teams ramping up their testing to ensure seamless digital experiences, the need for automated, efficient software testing is mandatory. But “just test more” won’t be enough.
The Challenge: Why is UI testing on mobile apps so difficult?
While ramping up testing is a great start, understanding the specific outcomes, needs, implications of your quality practice is crucial–especially for UI testing on mobile.
Visual regressions (unexpected changes in your applications UI) offer a more effective solution than functional testing alone. Our customers occasionally ask, “Why can’t I just use functional testing for my UI?” Functional testing is meant to validate actions and engagements on your app, while visual testing helps to ensure your page looks and behaves the way you expect it to. The human eye can often miss tiny details and inconsistencies, especially when considering all of the browser, device, and OS combinations you are testing on.UI testing requires a more specific solution.
However, using separate platforms UI testing, infrastructure and test analytics leads to unnecessary complexity, slowing down your development and increasing costs. Each additional solution means more time spent on separate integrations, maintenance, troubleshooting and time spent switching between tools. By consolidating your testing tools into one single platform, you can eliminate redundancies, maximize efficiency, and save on costs.
Sauce Visual testing for mobile apps: Fully integrated, less complex, and more cost-effective
With the increasing reliance on mobile apps, ensuring quality is more important than ever. Last year, mobile app revenue reached an impressive $475 billion–unsurprising as 64% of consumers prefer mobile over web for online purchases (hint hint, make sure your apple-pay is also working). This proves the need for absolutely flawless digital experiences on all devices, from iPhone to Android.
Sauce Visual for Native Mobile enables faster UI test execution, with less complexity, at a fraction of the cost, compared to other solutions. With all of the fundamental UI testing features, you can catch visual regressions more frequently, minimize maintenance, and release clean, user-friendly applications at every update.
Key features and benefits of Visual Mobile Testing with Sauce Labs include:
Cross-browser, Mobile Web and Mobile Native App Support: Run component and E2E tests to identify layout shifts, color issues, and other inconsistencies across every digital platform, ensuring a seamless, polished user experience, every time.
UI Ignore Regions: Improve test reliability by ignoring irrelevant visual changes. Dynamically exclude regions by category, selector, or directly in the UI, focusing on what's critical for your app’s UI.
DOM Inspection: Inspect DOM details of visual diffs to understand changes and make better decisions, reducing false negatives.
Sauce Visual CLI: Streamline workflows by easily integrating into your CI/CD pipelines, enabling efficient build management and accurate visual validation.
But don’t take it from us. Hootsuite, a global leader in social media management, saw immediate success with Visual for Mobile. “Within five minutes, we had native mobile UI testing up and running with Sauce Visual,” shared Roy Tang, Lead QA Automation Engineer.
Sauce Visual allows Hootsuite to seamlessly integrate with its CI/CD pipeline and robust test infrastructure, powered by Sauce Labs virtual and real device clouds, increasing efficiency while minimizing costs.
“Sauce Visual is now our go-to for mobile testing because it lets us handle everything in the cloud, using Sauce Labs infrastructure in one centralized platform.”
Roy Tang
Hootsuite, like Walmart and Costco, is also an industry leader providing the best digital experiences. With a 4.7-star rating and over 30,000 positive reviews, Hootsuite’s high user ratings show their commitment to delivering high quality at every app release.
Ensure consistency, engage every user, and drive success
For any business with a mobile app or those developing one, it's critical to prioritize quality, especially in your UI. Sauce Visual for Mobile can help to achieve the same level of visual consistency and quality as industry leaders. Ensure your mobile app always provides an outstanding experience, no matter the device or OS, while maintaining efficiency and reducing costs. Ready to streamline your mobile app testing process?
Discover how Sauce Visual for Native Mobile can elevate your app’s quality and ensure an excellent user experience. Get started today!
