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Revyl tests your iOS and Android applications by driving a real device the way a user would: tapping, typing, and swiping through your app, then verifying the screen matches what you expect. Instead of brittle selectors, Revyl uses AI to find elements and ground actions from natural-language instructions, so tests keep working as your UI changes. A test is a sequence of steps — instructions, validations, and control flow like loops and decisions — that Revyl runs against your app’s active build. Steps run in order, and each run produces a full report with screenshots, logs, and pass/fail results per step. There are 3 ways to create tests with Revyl:
  • Visual Editor: Build steps by hand in the Revyl UI
  • Recorded Session: Interact with the app yourself and Revyl generates the steps from your recording
  • Agent Based: An AI agent writes the test for you using the Revyl CLI
Each run generates a Report with full video and detailed information. Tests can also be grouped as part of Workflows and run in highly parallelized fashion.

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Testing Best Practices

  • Prefer natural-language, intent-driven instructions over long, granular steps. This keeps tests less brittle as your app changes over time.

Recommended

  • Go to Settings and enable notifications if they’re currently off.

Avoid

  • Step 1: Tap the hamburger menu icon in the top-left corner (should be at approx x=20,y=40)
  • Step 2: Wait exactly 2 seconds
  • Step 3: Tap “Settings” which is the 3rd item in the list
  • Step 4: If a modal appears, tap the X in the top right, otherwise proceed
  • Step 5: Scroll down exactly 2 screen-heights
  • Step 6: Tap the toggle next to “Notifications” only if it’s currently off
  • Bypass authentication for tests that aren’t testing auth. Authentication can take a long time to run on every test, so for flows that don’t specifically test it, bypass authentication with deeplinks instead.
  • Whitelist Revyl’s IP addresses if your app has rate limiting or CAPTCHA blocks, so they don’t interfere with testing.