Intuit Testing

Anushree Chatterjee

Intuit is a financial software company that offers a variety of products for consumers, small businesses, and accountants. Intuit’s products are known for their ease of use, comprehensive features, and ability to integrate with a wide range of third-party applications and services. QuickBooks is the most well-known of Intuit’s offerings, providing a comprehensive accounting software solution for small and medium-sized businesses. It offers features for managing invoices, payroll, sales, and expenses.

Besides QuickBooks, Intuit has other products like TurboTax, which simplifies tax preparation and filing, Mint which is a web-based personal finance management service, ProConnect for professional accountants to prepare and file taxes, and Credit Karma which offers free credit scores, reports, and insights, along with tools for finding credit card and loan offers.

This article will discuss the Intuit marketplace, how to integrate Intuit products into your business, and how to test all these integrations.

Integrating Intuit products into your business

If you want to integrate Intuit products and services like QuickBooks into your business, you can explore their collection of product APIs. These allow you to connect and exchange data between your system and Intuit’s products. You can use their SDKs that support various languages like Java, .Net, PhP, and more to achieve this.

Selling on Intuit Marketplace

The QuickBooks App Store is a platform where developers can showcase and sell their applications to QuickBooks users. These marketplace apps are a great way to extend the existing functionalities of Intuit products. These apps can range from supplementary tools that enhance QuickBooks functionalities to completely independent applications that integrate with QuickBooks to offer seamless financial management and reporting solutions.

You can also sell your app on the Intuit Marketplace, the QuickBooks App Store. To do this, you can use Intuit’s APIs to integrate your app with QuickBooks. To sell your app, you need to sign up for an Intuit Developer account if you haven’t already. This account is necessary to access Intuit’s APIs, developer tools, and documentation. Once your app is ready, you’ll need to submit it to Intuit for review.

Testing Intuit product integrations and apps

Once you’ve integrated the product of your choice into your business or created an app for the Marketplace, you need to test it. Testing your code at different levels through unit, integration, and end-to-end testing will be an excellent way to ensure good-quality integrations.

Besides these techniques, you should also consider other non-functional testing techniques to check various aspects of your system, like performance, security, accessibility, and scalability.

Unit testing Intuit product integrations and apps

Through unit testing, you can ensure that any piece of code written is functioning as expected. If you’re building a custom integration using Intuit’s APIs like QuickBooks Online API, you can incorporate unit testing by choosing relevant unit testing frameworks like JUnit for Java or NUnit for C#. Additionally, use mocking frameworks to simulate responses from Intuit’s APIs during unit tests. This allows you to test your integration logic in isolation without relying on actual API calls. Popular mocking frameworks include Mockito for Java and Moq for C#.

Integration testing Intuit product integrations and apps

As valuable as unit tests are, using integration tests to verify how your application interacts with real Intuit services in a dedicated test environment is crucial. This can bring out issues that unit testing might miss. You can utilize standard testing frameworks like JUnit for Java or NUnit for C#, which are also used for unit testing.

Intuit also offers sandbox environments for their APIs. These environments allow you to test integrations with sample data without affecting real user data or production systems.

End-to-end testing of Intuit product integrations and apps

End-to-end testing is crucial for verifying the overall user experience of your application. When testing from an end user’s perspective, you should opt for testing tools that can handle UI-based testing in an easy way for testers to work with.

While Intuit doesn’t offer a single, comprehensive service solely for end-to-end testing, you can find some good options of tools in the market for automating end-to-end testing. One such tool that can work wonders for your QA is testRigor.

testRigor for end-to-end testing

When it comes to testing Intuit product integrations in your system or apps built for the Marketplace, you need a robust testing tool that can seamlessly work with the different platforms and systems under test. This is where testRigor proves beneficial. It is a generative AI-based cloud testing platform that automates and makes all types of end-to-end, functional, regression, UI, and even API test cases possible for everyone.

Here are some reasons why it works so well for testing AWS integrations or apps.

• Create tests using simple English: Not just developers but even manual testers and other team members who are not proficient in coding can work with this tool due to its simplistic test case creation using plain English language. You can even use their record-and-playback tool to capture test cases or leverage their generative AI test case creation feature.
• A single tool that tests all: With testRigor, you can test across platforms, browsers, and devices and even test native mobile and native desktop apps. This comes in handy when working with AWS products.
• Bare minimum test maintenance: testRigor uses AI and self-healing to make your test maintenance woes minimal, allowing you to spend your time and energy on creative test case writing.
• Easy testing of real-world test scenarios: testRigor’s powerful test library supports testing real-world scenarios like 2-factor authentication, SMS, email content, audio testing, video testing, table interaction, comparing screens, file testing, and more. All of this is possible using plain English statements.
• Intuitive test reporting: This tool captures every single step of test execution and gives screenshots and video recordings, making it very easy to know what the test execution looked like. You will also find additional developer information and error information appended to each test step, as and when necessary.
• Easy integrations with existing services: You need not worry about integrating testRigor with other software that you currently have as a part of your QA efforts, as this tool integrates with most of the popular software.

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click on “Invoice”
click on table "invoices" at row "Acme Inc 0320" and column "Action"
process invoice //reusable rule

The command ‘process invoice’ is a reusable rule that you can define. testRigor allows you to deem a sequence of commands as a rule and use it across multiple test cases. The steps that create the reusable rule are also written in plain English.

There’s a lot more you can do with testRigor. Take a look at the complete features list over here.

Conclusion

Thorough testing of Intuit product integrations or custom apps for the Marketplace is an investment that pays off in the long run. It helps ensure your system functions smoothly, avoids data issues, and delivers a positive user experience. Use of supportive and smart tools makes your testing processes easy, quick, and high-quality.

FAQs

1. Can testRigor handle financial system integrations across platforms?

   testRigor can handle almost all kinds of systems, including financial ones. All you need to do is create end-to-end test cases covering your application’s crucial workflows. What’s great about this tool is that it supports testing across multiple platforms as well, like the web, mobile, or even the desktop. Hence, you get a one-stop solution to all your testing needs.

2. What if I do not want to write test cases myself?

   You can use testRigor’s record-and-playback capabilities to let the tool create test cases in plain English based on your actions. Here is the testRigor’s recorder, which you can use to record a test, just like with any similar tool. Otherwise, you can use the generative AI features to generate most test cases automatically. You can also import your manual test cases and tweak them a bit to make them executable by testRigor.

3. What programming languages do I need to learn to use testRigor?

   One of the best parts about using testRigor for testing is that it leverages AI to make test case writing as simple as plain English statements. If you take a look at their documentation, you’ll see just how easy it is to generate test cases for complex workflows in a couple of English statements. So, even if you aren’t proficient in coding, you can easily use this tool to create test cases.

“We spent so much time on maintenance when using Selenium, and we spend nearly zero time with maintenance using testRigor.”

Keith Powe VP Of Engineering - IDT