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Automate testing of a web app developed with FlutterFlow is often complex because it employs shadow DOM as a technique for rendering the UI. This technique makes it challenging to find elements and then be able to engage with them, and hence attempts at automating the app with traditional Selenium, Playwright, and other open-source tools become complicated.
What is Flutter Flow?
FlutterFlow is an interface through which you design and create mobile applications using Google’s Flutter framework.
It offers a no-code/low-code solution, for creating and designing native iOS and Android Flutter applications, without requiring you to write large volumes of code. Using FlutterFlow, you can design the UIs, link the data and even implement additional features using code.
Can We Automate Tests for Flutterflow Apps?
The short answer is yes, but there is a lot of engineering involved!
Flutterflow is an advanced tool for designing good-looking mobile apps with the help of which you don’t have to write a single line of code. But when it comes to the aspect of automating the Flutterflow app, the issue becomes a question of identifying the DOM elements on the Web Pages produced by Flutterflow.
This is because Flutter Flow uses either the “canvaskit” or the “html” web renderer to build the interface of the application, so the elements are either drawn on one canvas and then painted in order or are built from the custom HTML tags.
Considering this, FlutterFlow DOM elements are hard to discover and even interact with using standard testing tools and frameworks.
Solution?
There are specific difficulties in automating tests for the Flutterflow apps, especially when it comes to finding and manipulating DOM elements of the web pages built with Flutterflow.
However, overcoming these hurdles is a challenge, which being a leading QA company we have achieved by implementing the best tools and techniques. Curious to know how we did it?
If you want to know how we have overcome those challenges, contact us now!
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