End-to-end testing

End-to-end testing evaluates an application’s performance from the beginning to the end of a user workflow. It tests a variety of usage scenarios to ensure that the software works as expected and meets specifications and requirements. End-to-end tests take place in a production environment or in an environment that is as close as possible to a real-world scenario.

Because modern applications are highly interconnected with other systems, end-to-end tests are designed to see how software performs as it communicates with hardware, networks, databases, and other applications. End-to-end testing occurs after the completion of other phases of the software testing lifecycle, including integration testing and system testing.

End-to-end tests enable DevOps teams to accomplish several critical tasks as they prepare to release software.

• Identifying issues in distributed environments. As organizations increasingly rely on cloud services, applications can be highly distributed. End-to-end testing is designed to pinpoint problems related to communication across multiple environments.
• Validating behavior in multi-tier systems. In addition to evaluating the overall function of an application, end-to-end testing can determine whether an application is functioning correctly in individual layers.
• Ensuring a quality user experience. End-to-end tests help determine whether an application performs as users want and need it to, and whether the user experience is consistent across various platforms, environments, and devices.
• Validating back-end functionality. In addition to front-end functionality, end-to-end tests determine whether the back-end and database layers perform critical functions as expected.

Essential metrics involved in end-to-end testing include:

• Test case preparation status. Progress on preparing and planning test cases should be regularly tracked to ensure that testing is moving forward at an acceptable pace.
• Test progress. Tracking test progress weekly provides development teams with critical information about tests that have been executed, whether the applications passed or failed, or whether the tests were rendered invalid.
• Status report on defects. Defects that are discovered during testing should be logged daily and prioritized by severity. These metrics should also track the percentage of open and closed defects based on severity and priority, helping DevOps teams organize remediation efforts more efficiently.
• Test environment time. These metrics track the time allotted for the duration of the test environment as well as the amount of time actually required by testing, helping testers plan and allocate resources effectively for future tests.

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Tricentis Tosca provides a market-leading approach to test automation – one that is AI-powered, no-code, and end-to-end so it can test everything in your complex IT landscape, and ensure your business processes work flawlessly – no matter where changes occurs. Its 160+ technology support means you can test virtually any legacy, custom, enterprise and mobile application across your entire IT landscape. Tosca’s unique risk optimization and model-based approach enable you to test 12x faster, reduce risk by 85% while cutting your overall testing costs by 40%. Because these tests are model-based, your business, QA and IT teams can easily work together to create and maintain reusable test assets at speed and scale, while delivering faster business results with more confidence.

With Tricentis Tosca, you can:

• Test sooner. Achieve extreme shift left testing, by building tests based on mockup designs and automating tests before any code is written. You can also leverage service virtualization to accelerate testing by eliminating the challenge of unavailable systems or services that are costly, difficult to access or have not yet been built.
• Test smarter. Using next-generation AI-powered test automation technology, Tosca lets you keep up with application changes regardless of the underlying platform, avoiding massive rework as applications evolve.
• Test with everyone. Tosca makes test automation easy, allowing business analysts and subject matter experts to contribute regardless of their skill level.

Along with Tosca, Tricentis offers a suite of testing solutions from unified test management, end-to-end data integrity testing, app-native testing, performance and load testing, including smart impact analysis.