Mobile app testing made easy with OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web
Automate testing, expand coverage, and accelerate reliable software releases across mobile devices and browsers
OpenText™ Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web is a comprehensive testing platform designed to accelerate mobile and web application testing. Whether you’re testing iOS or Android applications, responsive web designs, or hybrid experiences, this solution provides the AI-powered automation capabilities your team needs to deliver quality software faster.
It helps you deliver quality mobile apps faster without the overhead of managing multiple tools. Whether you’re on or off cloud, you get the same capabilities to test against the latest devices and platforms, keeping pace with your release cycles. Your teams can stay flexible with the testing frameworks and approaches that work best for them, while you eliminate complexity and reduce costs.
Benefits of OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web
Teams choosing OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web report faster time-to-market, reduced testing costs, and improved mobile and web quality outcomes. Here’s why organizations trust this solution:
- Cross-platform AI-driven test automation: Test iOS and Android applications with a single automation framework, reducing tool sprawl and training overhead. Build once, run on multiple platforms without maintaining separate test suites for each OS.
- Intelligent browser testing: Test on iOS Safari and Chrome, Android browsers, Windows and macOS cloud browsers including Safari, Chrome, Firefox, and Edge. Cloud browser testing enables you to increase test coverage and test on a variety of browsers and versions concurrently, without maintaining machines with browsers.
- Improved user experience: Enhance navigation in a left panel and organized filters in a right-side panel. Both panels collapse for expanded workspace, giving testers more control over their working environment and streamlining AI-assisted test creation workflows.
- Latest platform support: Support for iOS 26 and Android v17 ensures your tests stay current with the latest mobile operating system releases. Automatic Android alert dismissal streamlines testing for applications that interact with system notifications.
- Appium v3 compatibility: Leverage Appium v3 server support, enabling teams to adopt the latest version of the industry-standard testing framework while maintaining AI-driven automation advantages.
- Visibility and organization: Filter results count display total item availability at a glance, making it easier to locate and manage test assets across your testing environment.
- Continuous delivery integration: Integrate OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web into CI/CD pipelines to automate mobile app testing as part of your release process, reducing bottlenecks and accelerating time-to-market for mobile applications.
Together, these capabilities combine to create a testing environment that scales with your organization, whether you’re a startup launching your first mobile app or an enterprise managing hundreds of mobile applications across diverse platforms.
Best practices for mobile and web test automation
Successful automation requires the right tools and a strategic approach. These proven practices will help you maximize your investment and build a mobile app testing culture that drives quality:
- Embrace AI-powered cross-platform testing: Leverage a single automation framework for both iOS and Android to reduce complexity and maintenance burden. AI-based capabilities intelligently identify objects and maintain scripts across platforms, accelerating test creation and ensuring consistent testing logic.
- Test native, hybrid, and responsive web: Cover all application types your organization supports. Include native iOS and Android apps, hybrid applications, responsive web designs, and progressive web apps in your test strategy.
- Implement CI/CD automation: Integrate OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web into your CI/CD pipelines to run mobile tests automatically with each build. This catches issues early and accelerates your release cycle.
- Build reusable test components: Integrate seamlessly with Appium, Selenium, OpenText Functional Testing, XCTest, Espresso, and other popular automation frameworks. Execute them seamlessly on real devices and browsers with OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web to reduce maintenance, improve consistency, and accelerate test execution.
- Keep platforms current: Update your functional testing environment to support the latest iOS and Android releases. OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web now supports iOS 26 and Android v17, ensuring compatibility with current and upcoming mobile platforms.
- Prioritize real device testing: While emulators have their place, testing on actual devices captures real-world performance characteristics and system-level behaviors that emulators cannot replicate. Cloud browser testing eliminates infrastructure maintenance while providing production-like environments.
Teams adopting these practices consistently achieve higher defect detection rates, faster feedback cycles, and greater confidence in their mobile applications. Combined with OpenText Functional Testing Lab for Mobile and Web capabilities, this foundation enables scalable mobile test automation.
Get started today
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