Integrating mobile App testing tools with AEM

[Prince_Shivhare]

Hey Community,

I hope you're doing well.

We’re using AEM Cloud to create content fragments and a GraphQL endpoint. This endpoint is then used by app developers to build the app UI. However, if someone wants to test it, they usually need to go into AEM Cloud first, make the changes, and then test them in BrowserStack.

So, I wanted to check if there's any way to test these changes directly in AEM. We can't write separate frontend code to view the UI, as it would require additional developers.

Thanks!

[Tethich]

Hi @Prince_Shivhare 

I believe you should provide more context, to narrow down exactly what you need or what you have in mind (cause' might be two different things).

1. Are content fragments containing pure user data ? Or also data that may affect the UI app in any way ? In a way that editors might drive UI app behavior and functionality
2. When you said "test it", what is "it" ? Are you thinking of the UI app ? Or of the API endpoint ?
3. What so you mean by "directly in AEM"? What would you expect to be able to do ?

These questions might help understand what is possible and what not, doable or not, best practice or not.

For example:

• if you need to test round trip request-response, you will need to use maybe some javascript node.js app (with api-testing, chai, mocha, nock etc), or some Postman scripts to name a few.
• if you are only interested to see if your GraphQL endpoint works as expected, this falls into the practice of so-called Contract testing. You have to pay attention to few things, specially to test your queries and validate mutations: https://amplication.com/blog/best-practices-in-testing-graphql-apis, https://medium.com/open-graphql/how-i-started-testing-my-queries-and-mutations-on-graphql-f578abc1b4...
• if you want to test your UI app, you are on a good path by using BrowserStack.

I don't think you can do it without extra additional development effort.

[Manu_Mathew_]

@Prince_Shivhare Can you provide bit more clarity on what kind of changes need to be tested? CF and GraphQL are used as endpoints to provide content here and the content is managed in AEM and UI to be implemented separately.