I’m very excited to share the first set of major product updates to Miyar in a long time.
Miyar is a no-code / no-installation platform to create end-to-end tests by visually interacting with your website. What this means practically is that if you’re responsible for the reliability of an ecommerce website, you can open your website in Miyar and do what your customers would do: e.g. open a product page, select a color for their t-shirt, select the size, add to cart. Miyar will convert that into a test that you can run on a schedule. If our test runs cannot reproduce the same results, that might indicate that something is broken (for example the “Add to cart” button might not be working.) In that case we’ll send you an email alert to let you know about the issue.
Replays
This was our most common feature request. Previously, we’d take screenshots of the browser at different times while you were creating a test to create a visual reference for what was happening when the test was created. While this was a first good step, customers wanted more fidelity. Some of you asked for a video view to review the test before you publish and to understand what exactly happens when a test fails.
Today, we have almost exactly that: Replays. They’re not videos, they’re better. Replays provide a high quality and high fidelity view of exactly what was going on when a test was created or during scheduled runs. They include a view of the page and how it changed as a result of user interactions, mouse movements, and keyboard events.
Replays are available just before you publish a test, after you’ve published the test, and for each run of the test (both successful and unsuccessful ones). This allows you to review what you’re testing for prior to publishing, review what is being tested, and understand what occurred during a test run.
URL normalization
While this change is not as significant as Replays, it is going to make using Miyar more convenient: we’re improving the way we accept URL inputs for test creation. Previously all URL input fields required a correctly formatted URL https://www.example.com/, but now you can just enter a domain name (example.com) and we’ll normalize that automatically to https://example.com. Please note that if the URL you enter doesn’t include the scheme part (e.g. https://), we’ll default to using https://.
Focused UI for test creation
You might also notice that our “draft” and “publish” screens for creating and publishing tests are now very focused. We’ve removed the standard header and footer sections from those screens and now only present information relevant to the task at hand: creating a test. As a consequence, you cannot exit those screens unless you cancel your test draft or publish it.
Thank you!
And that’s it! Thank you for using Miyar! We’re always looking to improve the experience for our customers. If you have any questions or feedback, please ping us anytime using the chat bubble in the bottom right corner.