How to Use In-Session Testing Tools ?

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With LambdaTest’s Real Device browser testing, you get access to a plethora of features that helps QA ease their real device browser testing process, without the need of leaving the instance window. From features such as mark as bug and changing IP geolocation, to in-depth Chrome DevTools and Safari Web Inspector, LambdaTest's Real Device browser testing offers it all.

Let us get an overview of all the features in our real device instance:

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Home

The Home feature on the left-sidebar allows you to go to the home screen of your selected real device instantly.

Screenshot

The Screenshot feature allows you to take a screenshot in an instant of the current screen of the device that you are currently testing on. You can access the screenshots and even download them in the gallery section.

Record Session

The Record Session feature allows you to screen record the current test session inside the real device. As you click on the button a timer would start, indicating the recording time. You can click on the stop button to stop the video recording.

Just as your screenshots, you can find your recorded video in the gallery. You can also download the recording by clicking on the download button.

Mark As Bug

The Mark as Bug feature allows you to push your UI related issues/edited screenshot to your integrated workspace instantly.

Gallery

All screenshots and video recordings from test sessions are stored in the Gallery. To access, select Gallery from the left toolbar and you'll find the saved screenshots and videos.To download the screenshots or videos to your local machine, click on the Download icon.

IP Geolocation

The IP Geolocation feature allows you to emulate website and mobile experiences from more than 45 countries using local IP addresses. This enables you to test localized elements like pricing, languages, and product offerings. With IP Geolocation activated, you can verify that your app's traffic is coming from a particular country, facilitating thorough global testing.

Check out our detailed support documentation to know more about the IP Geolocation feature.

GPS Location

GPS Geolocation testing allows you to simulate specific device locations using exact GPS coordinates to evaluate location-based app scenarios. You can enter your preferred location by entering the name of the location.

However, if your preferred location is not showing, you can specify the exact location by entering the lattitude and longitude of the location.

Network Throttling

With LambdaTest’s Network Throttling, you can test mobile applications across a range of network conditions, including offline, as well as specific network profiles like 3G, 3G+, 4G LTE, 4G Advanced and even custom network profile with its extensive real mobile device cloud.

You can simulate these network environments using either pre-defined profiles or by creating custom network profiles to suit your needs.

Check out our detailed support documentation to know more about the Network Throttling feature.

Device Controls

With the Device Controls feature, you can easily manage various settings on your device, such as adjusting the volume and changing its orientation.

Under Device Control, you'll find multiple options to customize your device's settings:

1. Volume: Adjust the device's volume to your preferred level.
2. Rotate: Change the screen orientation between landscape and portrait modes.
3. Recent Apps : Available on iOS 14 and above, this feature allows you to view recent apps. Note that it is not supported on devices that rely on a physical button for accessing recent apps instead of the swipe-up gesture.

Settings

The settings section offer the following features:

• Idle Timeout: This feature allows you to set the idle timeout for your test session by selecting from the dropdown menu. The default Idle Timeout is 5 minutes and the maximum limit is 45 minutes.
• Time Zone: With this feature, you can select the time zone of your preference from the dropdown menu. The time zone are set to GMT by default and can be changed as per preference.
• Language: With this feature, you can change the language in your test session for a more localized testing experience. Language locale doc.
• Projects: The projects feature allows you to track your existing test session in an existing project. You can create and access your projects under More Tools.

Switch

This feature allows you to switch between devices, browser and their OS versions without exiting your current test session.

End Session

By clicking on the end session button, you can close your current test session.

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Zoom In-Out

With the zoom in-out slider, you can zoom in and out in your real device as per your preference.

Chrome DevTools

LambdaTest’s real device browser testing offers in-built developer tools to help QA debug their websites and web applications.

Safari Web Inspector

LambdaTest’s real device browser testing offers in-built Safari Web Inspector, an open-source web development tool to simplify optimizing, prototyping, and debugging web applications for iOS and OS X.

Test Manager

Unified Test Manager simplifies test authoring, management, triggering, and reporting, boosting efficiency throughout all testing phases.

Notes: The max duration for running manual tests on LambdaTest Real Device Cloud is 2 hours. In order to extend the duration, you can opt for our dedicated real device cloud.