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UIs will never be the same (nor will testing them)

Malo Marrec
Co-founder and CPO
· 4 min read

Man, what’s gonna happen to UIs is insanely cool

I’m not a believer that chatbots will replace UIs completely. And that’s not because I doubt how crazy good chat interfaces are becoming, it’s because how appealing beautiful UIs are to us humans. GUIs did not kill terminals. But very few use only the command line, because UIs are nice to look at.

But how limited we are by our interfaces!

4 ways to automate email verification and MFA in end-to-end testing

Malo Marrec
Co-founder and CPO
· 9 min read

Most software products today use email verification and multi-factor authentication (MFA) to secure user accounts. This often ends up being a specific pain point for test automation.

Signup and login are critical failure points for any web application. Because they rely on third parties or shared states, authentication flows are hard to test with automated scripts. Some third parties also block browser automation. We've heard many stories of logins and signup flow breaking silently, and nobody noticing until analytics show a drop in user engagement.

At Heal, we believe that end-to-end tests should be as close as possible to the real user experience. In other words, they should replicate what a manual QA tester would do, including verifying emails and entering OTPs.