Imagine another regular day when your development team has just completed a major feature update. However, before deploying it, you need to run through hundreds of test cases to make sure nothing breaks. Now, if you are using any of the traditional testing tools, this would mean hours of updating test scripts and fixing broken selectors. Do you wish there was a way to make your test suite adapt automatically to these changes? 

testRigor is the answer you are looking for. 

testRigor has changed the way software testing is done as part of modern software development. It is a generative AI-driven test automation tool that provides you the freedom of writing/generating/recording test cases in plain English. It uses advanced AI Agentic solutions to adapt the test scripts if there are any UI or requirement changes. 

Let’s explore how testRigor overcomes the challenges of traditional testing solutions in this blog.

Current Challenges in Automation Testing

We can clearly see that software testing has changed significantly over the past decades. From manual testing to automated frameworks like Selenium and Appium, each advancement has brought new capabilities. And with them came new challenges. Today, our development teams face a critical and mammoth problem: as applications grow more complex, maintaining test suites becomes increasingly burdensome.

Let us consider a typical e-commerce application. A simple feature like “add to cart” might involve multiple test cases:

1. Verify the button appears correctly
2. Test different product variations
3. Check inventory updates
4. Apply coupon codes and discounts
5. Validate cart totals
6. Test mobile responsiveness

With traditional testing tools, each of these scenarios requires detailed code that specifies exact element selectors and interaction patterns. Here is a typical Selenium test case:

from selenium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys

# Initialize the driver
driver = webdriver.Chrome()

# Open the login page
driver.get("https://example.com/login")

# Find username and password fields
driver.find_element(By.ID, "username").send_keys("test_user")
driver.find_element(By.ID, "password").send_keys("password123")

# Click login button
driver.find_element(By.ID, "login-button").click()

# Close the browser
driver.quit()

While this may look straightforward now. Maintaining dozens or hundreds of such test cases becomes more and more difficult as UI elements evolve or change. So, when the development team updates the UI, perhaps changing element IDs or restructuring the DOM – these tests often break. You then are required to manually update the locators/identifiers to keep the test scripts in working condition. This creates a maintenance burden that grows exponentially with your test suite. Not to mention, this is expensive in terms of cost and people’s effort. Eventually, this further delays the product releases and test coverage.

testRigor: Your AI Agent in Software Testing

testRigor approaches this challenge with a fundamentally different philosophy.  What if we could write tests the same way we describe them to other humans?

Instead of specifying technical selectors and DOM elements, testRigor allows you to express test cases in natural language, i.e., what you are seeing on the UI as an end-user. Here is an automatically generated test case by testRigor, when we just provided the description of the app as “an e-commerce application to buy items by customers”. The test case automatically logins, then searches for a laptop, adds it to the cart, and then removes the item from the cart. Finally, it asserts that the message “Your cart is empty” is displayed on the screen.

login
enter "Laptop" into "What can we help you find today?"
click "submit search"
click "Add to Cart" roughly below the "Save $50"
click "Go to Cart"
click "Remove"
check if page contains "Your cart is empty"

Here is how it looks in the testRigor app. The whole chunk of the above Selenium code is replaced by one built-in rule (function) ‘login’. That is it, just write it and the app will take care of login process.

This simple change has profound benefits:

1. Accessibility: Non-technical team members, including QA analysts and business stakeholders, can now write and understand test cases without learning programming languages or testing frameworks. If you can explain a feature or test case to your colleague or friend in English, then you can create automation test cases using testRigor. It is that simple.
2. Resilience: testRigor’s AI-driven capabilities to understand the context and intent. So, even if your ‘login’ button becomes ‘sign-in’ in the next code update, testRigor will still recognize it. It allows the test script to adapt to UI changes automatically. If a button moves or its ID changes, testRigor can still find it based on the surrounding context and visible text. The reason is simple: it does not use the implementation details such as XPath or CSS for element identification. It uses AI context.
3. Maintainability: Because tests are written in natural language, they remain readable and maintainable even as your application evolves. There’s no need to update complex selector chains or DOM traversal logic. You can save up to 99.5% of maintenance effort with testRigor as compared to traditional test automation tools.

Single Tool for Multiple Testing Requirements

Through its partnership with PeerIslands, testRigor is expanding beyond traditional web testing into broader process automation. This initiative addresses a critical gap in enterprise automation: the need for resilient, intelligent, and maintainable test automation across diverse systems and interfaces.

Traditional RPA (Robotic Process Automation) solutions often require complex scripting and frequent maintenance. By applying testRigor’s natural language approach to process automation, organizations can:

1. Automate end-to-end business processes across web, desktop, mobile, and API interfaces
2. Reduce the technical expertise required for automation development
3. Minimize maintenance overhead as systems evolve
4. Scale automation initiatives more effectively
5. Test AI features such as LLMs, chatbots, user intent, positive/negative feedback, true/false statements, and many more.
6. Salesforce testing is made simple and powerful. testRigor provides Salesforce built-in functions (reusable rules) to help you make faster and more efficient product releases. Automate test cases for ERPs, CRMs, etc., in plain English.

Here are a few of testRigor’s remarkable capabilities:

• Simply Register and Start Testing on the Cloud: testRigor frees you from investing in setting up and maintaining your own test automation infrastructure and device cloud. Just register and start using it right away. This saves significant time, effort, and cost.
• Plain English Tests: You need not worry about knowing programming languages. You can create and execute test scripts three times faster than other tools using just plain English. Also, any of the stakeholders can add or update natural language test scripts, which are easy to read and understand.
• AI Context for Element Identification: testRigor uses a unique AI approach for element locators. You simply describe elements by the text you see on the screen, and AI finds them using AI context. This helps the team focus more on creating new use cases than fixing the flaky XPaths or CSS locators.
• Complex Scenarios, Simple Tests: Manage 2FA, QR Codes, Captcha resolution, email, file, geolocation, phone call, SMS testing, and many more complex scenarios efficiently with simple English commands in testRigor.
• Visual Testing: Visual validation or UI testing is one of the most critical cross-device tests, and we can do it easily with testRigor. With testRigor’s visual testing, we can ensure all the UI elements are loaded correctly on the page and if there is any change from the previous version of the test run.
• One Tool For All Testing Types: testRigor performs more than just web automation. It can be used for:
  • Web and mobile browser testing
  • Mobile testing
  • Desktop app testing
  • API testing
  • Accessibility testing
  • Exploratory testing
  • AI features testing

• Integrations: Easily integrate testRigor with the leading CI/CD tools like Jenkins and CircleCI, test management systems such as Zephyr and TestRail, defect tracking platforms like Jira and Pivotal Tracker, and infrastructure providers including AWS and Azure. Communication tools like Slack and Microsoft Teams are also supported. Additionally, you can import manual test cases from test management tools or simply copy-paste them into testRigor to use as automation tests.

The Future: AI-Driven Test Automation at Scale

The exciting collaboration between PeerIslands and testRigor represents more than just a new testing tool. We will say it is just a glimpse into the empowered future of software quality assurance. By combining AI-driven automation with natural language processing, they’re creating a framework that can:

• Convert extensive manual test suites into automated tests with minimal effort
• Adapt automatically to application changes
• Enable non-technical team members to contribute to automation efforts
• Extend beyond testing into broader process automation

Most importantly, testRigor is an AI agent for software testing. Hence, it learns, adapts, and makes decisions. When the world is revolutionized with the power of AI, why not use similar intelligence in software testing? Simplicity, innovation, and intelligence are walking in tandem with this collaboration.

Getting Started with testRigor

For teams considering testRigor, the transition process is straightforward:

1. Assessment: Review your existing test suite and identify high-maintenance areas.
2. Migration: Convert your most problematic test cases to testRigor’s natural language format. For example, you can convert your manual TestRail test cases into automated tests directly by importing them into testRigor. Make a few small tweaks, and your automated tests will be ready.
3. Tech Support: testRigor provides support for migrating your tests from Selenium, TestRail, Specflow, etc., to reduce your testing burden to a minimum.
4. Expansion: Gradually expand coverage using testRigor’s self-maintaining capabilities.
5. Integration: Incorporate testRigor into your CI/CD pipeline for automated test execution.

Conclusion

The challenges of traditional test automation have long been accepted as unavoidable costs in software development. testRigor and PeerIslands are proving that there’s a better way. By combining natural language processing with AI-driven automation, they’re creating a future where testing scales with your application, not against it.

For organizations looking to accelerate their development cycles without compromising on quality, the partnership between PeerIslands and testRigor offers a compelling solution. It’s not just about writing better tests—it’s about transforming how we think about quality assurance in software development.