What is Sofy?
How Does Sofy Help You?
Getting Started
The Sofy Dashboard
Getting Started with Testing Your App
Perform adhoc testing on real devices
Integrate with existing toolsets
Best Practices Guide
Modes of Device Interactions
App Manager
Uploading Your App
Installing an App
Considerations for IPA files (iOS)
Enterprise Build Support
Automatically Re-Signing iOS Apps
Troubleshoot Errors While Uploading Applications
Mobile Adhoc testing
What is Ad Hoc Testing?
Performing Ad Hoc Testing in Sofy
Setting up your Release
Device Lab Management
Understanding the Device Lab
Interacting with a Device in the Device Lab
Reading Device Logs
Viewing Test Results in the Lab
Install/Change Builds in Sofy Lab
Capturing Network Logs
Debugging with HTTPS Logs
Mobile Manual Testing
Creating and Running Manual Tests
Reviewing the Results of a Manual Test
Creating a Bug or Issue during Manual Testing
Exporting Results
Mobile Automated Testing
What is No-Code Automation?
Creating an Automated Test
Creating a Test Suite
Converting a Manual Test Run to an Automated Test
Inserting Steps into an Existing Test Case
Creating a Template for Automated Tests
Inserting a Template into a Test Case
Adding Post Test Hook or Cleanup Steps
Creating a Variable During Test Case Recording
Executing Automated Tests
Manually Overriding Element Selection
Aborting a Scheduled Run
Visualizing Test Case Health In Offline Editing
Organizing your Test Cases
Version History
Creating Variables in Offline Mode using Override
Availability of action buttons in lab during various modes
Unmask "Invisible" Elements in XML
Test Case Status
Adding Actions on Automated Tests
Swipe Until Overview
Adding a Swipe Until Action to a Test Case
Recording a Swipe Until Step
Switching between apps
Resetting your app
Setting Performance Thresholds
Adding Delays in Automated Test Cases
Adding Conditions to Test Cases
Adding Asserts During and After Test Recording
Adding an API Step to your Test
Storing Variables and Using them in API Requests
Automate OTP verification via email
Automate OTP verification via text message
Long Press
Swipe
Adding a Visual Match to a Test Step
Manual Override - Best Practices
Arithmetic Operations
Editing Different Types of Actions during Recording
Delete Step During Recording
Edit Steps During Recording
Variable-Based Conditional Actions
Testing Deeplinks
Accessibility Testing
Testing your App for Accessibility
Accessibility Guidelines Automated by Sofy
Test Data
Creating Test Data
Using Test Data During App Testing
Using Test Data
File Manager
Reporting
Review Test Results from Device Lab
Compare Test Results with Baseline Recordings
How to View Run Results - Lab Session
Report Viewer Role
Get Notified on Schedule Completion
Get Notified on Application Crashes
Release Readiness Reports
Viewing Results of Schedule Runs from Dashboard
Viewing Results of Lab Runs from Dashboard
How to Evaluate your Test Results - A Detailed Guide
Scheduling Tests
Scheduling Automated Tests
Backup Device Functionality
Parallel Execution & Suite Allocation Guide
Best Practices for Reliable Test Execution
Schedule Run - From Initialization to Completion
Sofy Co-Pilot
Creating Test Cases Using Sofy Co-Pilot in Portal
Analyzing Test Results
Sofy Co-Pilot Frequently Asked Questions
Automate your tests with Co-Pilot
Create Manual Test Cases With Co-Pilot
Automate your tests via Sofy's Co-Pilot in Lab
Analyzing Test Results with Co-Pilot
Account Settings and Billing
Update Your Password
Adding Your Team
Generating API Access Keys
Understanding Usage and Billing
Role Based Permissions
Integrations
Integrating Sofy with Atlassian
Adding Issue Tickets to Jira from Sofy Test Results
Integrating Sofy with Jenkins
Integration with BitRise
Integration with GitHub Actions
Integration with Datadog
Forwarding Email Addresses and Slack
CircleCI
Microsoft App Center
Login using Microsoft 365 and Google SSO
Integrating with Sofy via Webhooks
FAQs
Mobile App Testing Frequently Asked Questions
Troubleshooting
Wrong element detected
Application Failed to Install
A system dialog pop-up failed my test
Selecting the right element on my screen but still getting test failure
Observing Slow Performance
Debugging Test Failures - Best Practices
Enforced Rules
Fix your Tests - Best Practices
API Documents
Upload Applications
Upload Application API Endpoints and Route Errors
Schedule Runs
Schedule Run API Endpoints and Route Errors
Schedule Run Status API Endpoints
Triggering Scheduled Runs with APIs
Fetch Schedule Test Run Group IDs Endpoint
Abort Scheduled Runs Using cURL Commands
Salesforce App Testing
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Release Notes (before Oct. 2022)
All Categories > Device Lab Management
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The Sofy Device Lab is the central portal to access all the devices available to test your Android or iOS apps. From the Device Lab page, you can filter the list of devices available to you, and acqu…
Updated 2 months ago
When you want to perform a manual test or create an automated test run to test your app, you must first acquire and launch a device. Once you’ve done this, there are many actions available to you you…
Updated 3 months ago
During your lab session, you can read and download device logs to help you stay on top of your app-testing on real devices. How to Access Device Logs. Acquire a Sofy Device from Device Lab. Once your…
Updated 11 months ago by Hyder Ali
You can view the Test Results from within the Device Lab window. To do so, complete the following steps: Click the Results tab. There you will see both Manual and Automated Tests. You can distinguish…
Updated 2 years ago by Hyder Ali
Test various applications and builds as you like and record your tests across multiple builds, all without leaving Sofy Lab. How to Install/Change Applications and Builds in Sofy Lab. After logging i…
Updated 10 months ago by Kashif Hussain
Sofy allows you to capture and analyze network activity during your test sessions. This helps debug app behavior by surfacing exact network requests and responses , making it easier to spot connectiv…
Updated 2 weeks ago by Kashif Hussain
