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2022年2月2日,

Waldo已經籌集了1500萬美元的任何代碼的自動化測試工具。移動開發團隊使用Waldo可以設置測試而無需編寫一行腳本代碼。然後它無縫地集成在持續集成(CI)管道。約書亞Zelman了解合作夥伴的領導今天的首輪與矩陣的參與夥伴和第一輪資本。一些商業天使投資,如尼古拉•Dessaigne本波特菲爾德,泰勒Gaffney和基南賴斯。新資金,公司想雇傭更多的人,確定其營銷戰略。理解Waldo的最好方法是通過談論移動測試。小開發團隊通常都依賴真實測試。他們保持幾個智能手機模型和運行一個開發構建這些設備上的應用。如果有人出錯,他們跟蹤bug並試圖修複它。 As your app and team grow, manual testing doesn’t scale that well. You can develop testing scripts, but that’s a tedious task that requires more development time. Either you have a lot of money and you can allocate development time to testing scripts, or your developers will neglect those scripts over time. Waldo thinks there is a third way. Over the past four years, the startup has built a testing platform that is both easy to set up and easy to maintain. When you start using the product, you upload the app package to the platform — the .ipa or .apk file that you get from your development environment. After that, Waldo runs your app in a browser window. It’s a live version of your app and you can interact with it just like in a local emulator. For instance, you can tap on buttons, enter a login and password and swipe your finger across the screen. Waldo records every step of your test. If you choose to use this test in your production environment, then Waldo will go through the same steps and alert you if there’s an issue — if it can’t reach the final step of the test. Tests are triggered directly from your continuous integration workflow, which means that your app is automatically sent to Waldo when you commit some new lines of code to your Git repository. Image Credits: Waldo What makes Waldo work well over time is that it understands the screen structure. For instance, you can go back to your test and identify elements of the screen. “Imagine you’re opening the web inspector on a web page and looking at the HTML,” co-founder and CEO Amine Bellakrid told me. This way, you can say that screen similarity should be above a certain threshold and you can configure some elements manually. For instance, you can select a text box and say that it’s fine if it’s in another language. Over time, after tweaking your tests so that it passes and fails as expected, you get a real end-to-end testing platform. Waldo doesn’t just look at the user interface, it also interacts with the app and checks analytics events. For instance, if you’re running a Waldo test against your production server, Waldo knows that the server is working fine as you can log in without any issue. Behind the scenes, the company repackages your app and puts some additional code to extract some information about your app. The company then executes the app on a simulator on a server. Waldo also fetches some information from the emulator. “Our goal is to be a pipeline breaker, we are the last test before you ship to the App Store,” Bellakrid said. Some customers like Alan don’t have any QA team as they want developers to take care of QA. Others like Lemonade already have QA teams but think they can save time and improve their workflow with a product like Waldo. “In mobile, speed is what separates winners from losers,” Bellakrid said. And testing has been a bottleneck for many mobile development teams. Once your start chaining Waldo tests, you can cover a lot of testing ground and ship faster. Image Credits: Waldo