Testing your functionality is necessary to prevent bugs. However, good testing is a tedious and potentially time consuming task. At Menditect we make testing easy so that it does not take an expert to set up and maintain your test tool. Easy means that MTA leverages AI to:

• Reduce the effort to set up tests including the right asserts and data variation
• Make the creation of test data as easy as possible
• Make it easy to adapt the test to new versions of the Mendix app
• Prevent spending much time on figuring out what the test is supposed to do (if it was made a while ago or by someone else)
• Test on any Mendix environment and make it easy to switch

Test automation allows you to release faster, because you can test at any moment without depending on human resources to execute the tests. To make this happpen MTA

• Executes as fast as possible.
• Reduces the time between a commit and the execution of the tests (or tests even test before the function is committed)
• Is executable on any environment at any moment, without the need for extensive maintenance when the Mendix app is changed
• Allows you to change production code without the need to fix the associated unit test in the Mendix models

Test automation does not come for free. Its costs should be as low as possible, given a required test coverage and speed of testing. Menditect reduces your test automation costs by 80% – 90% (compared by automating tests with convential test tooling on a Mendix app). We do that by:

• Allowing Mendix developers to use AI to write tests directly after they have built the functionality
• Removing the need to maintain 3rd party test automation tools by a specialist
• Making the setup and maintenance of tests really easy (saves time and lowers the expertise level) and use AI where needed to reduce complexity
• Executing the tests as fast as possible

Menditect provides benefits for each stakeholder in your Mendix team

• IT managers get more confidence in the quality of Mendix releases and a better ROI on test automation
• Product owners get fast releases of new functionality, without high investments in automated tests
• Test automators get one tool that can execute tests at multiple levels (unit, component, process and UI)
• Mendix developers get test automation that fits with their Mendix skills

Disadvantages of test code in your app

• (unit) test code is present in a production environment which can be harmful when wrongly used
• test code in your Mendix model makes your Mendix app more difficult to mainain and keep the models clean
• test code can increase the size of your Mendix models considerably which degrades performance during development
• test data and test results are stored in local and unmanaged databases, which increases the risk of spread of (sensitive) testdata and makes it more difficult to keep track of all test results

Menditect is continuously improving Menditect Test Automation (MTA) to make test automation for Mendix apps easier and faster. We innovate by

• using our own extensive Mendix expertise
• frequent interaction with our end users and customers.
• delivering a new MTA version several times per year to our customers.
• sharing our vision and roadmap with our customers to validate it and to adjust it when necessary