GlideOS Tip #4: Testing

Key Takeaways

Testing is one of the most important parts of software development and especially in this day and age when it's so easy to build new features and to generate more code, you always want to be sure that you know, adding something over here to your app doesn't break something over there. And that's what testing is for. And so it's testing is built directly into Glide OS and I've just asked the agent that's responsible for building my app to test the whole thing. And you can see my hands are here but the agent has tools to look at the app, view what's on the screen, click around. And it can just figure out how to test the app by looking at it and browsing through the app. And I've opened on the right in a split view the data editor so we can also see as the tests are run is the data landing on the back end. We could also ask the agent to verify this on its own but it's nice to see. So it's right now it's trying to create a new task in our example task tracker app and it's scanning the screen and it's trying to figure out where to click. And you can even ask the agent when it's testing to make your app more testable. If it struggles to click on something, if it struggles to find a flow, you can ask it to make the test the code more amenable to testing by adding testing identifiers for example. So now it's added a task and we can see it just showed up in our database on the right via Glide's live data feature. So it's going to continue to test search and filtering etc. editing and I'll be quiet now so we can speed this up and get through the tests. >> Awesome. It finished seven different tests and now it's writing us a report on what it tested. So, to test your app, just ask the agent to test everything or test a specific feature and this is designed to make sure that you can build high quality software in Glide.