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Rainforest QA Overview

What is Rainforest QA?

Rainforest QA is an AI-accelerated test automation service. Working within Rainforest’s no-code platform, Rainforest's experienced Test Managers can create and maintain your end-to-end tests up to three times faster than QA engineers using open source frameworks. For less than a quarter of the cost. Rainforest’s patent-pending AI can automatically update — or “heal” — tests when you make intended changes to your app, reducing the time you have to spend waiting for your tests to get updated. Your team never has to maintain a test, and the only test failures you hear about are the ones pointing to bugs you want to fix. Talk to us about customizing a plan to fit your needs.

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How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Intuitive, no-code platform: Our Test Managers — accelerated by AI — can create and maintain automated test coverage up to 3x faster than QA engineers using open-source frameworks like Selenium, Cypress, or Playwright.

No black boxes: Anyone from your team can quickly interpret or update your test coverage without any training or technical skills.

Visual-first: Rainforest primarily interacts with the visual layer of your app, not the DOM. That is, it uses your app like real users would, giving you confidence your tests are protecting the user experience.

Not limited to browsers: Test anything that appears on a macOS or Windows VM screen.

Patent-pending AI: When you make intended changes to your web app’s appearance or functionality, our patent-pending AI can automatically update — or “heal” — the relevant test steps. So, human-powered test maintenance is completely avoided.

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Automate your e
e tests without the time-consuming drudgery of test maintenance. Rainforest blends AI-assisted testing with QA expertise to help your SaaS startup ship with speed and confidence. Rainforest QA is a Y Combinator company and has raised more than $50 million from top investors. We’re fully remote, with our team distributed around the globe.

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Tamila B.

Engineering manager (Head of Quality)

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/25/2021

"Excellent team and great product!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

Their team is always there and available to help! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

The product could use some improvements and new features. But it seems like they are constantly working on it and improving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

Problem: too much to test, not enough time and recourses. Rainforest solves this by test automation that reduces the time used for testing products manually. As we are still in the implementation stage, not many benefits at this time, but so far, their TWS (test writing services) has been a tremendous help to automate our test suites.

We are looking forward to many more benefits once we have it up and fully running. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Justin H.

QA Lead

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

1/29/2021

"Rainforest has gone above and beyond to help us with our QA needs!"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

The best thing about working with RainforestQA is how they have always been flexible and willing to work with us as QA in our company has evolved. I also cannot say enough good things about their customer service and CSM folks. We've gone through several CSM's and each one has been wonderful! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Early on, there were difficulties getting used to their platform and some growing pains with regard to ease of test creation and management, however, Rainforest worked closely with us during this time, gave advice, and ultimately helped us move past these issues with the implementation of a test manager.

There have also been very helpful updates to their software, like the test writing service which brings in the crowd to help us edit our tests. Things like this have improved the experience for us and we're excited to see what they'll come up with in the future! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rainforest QA:

If your goal is to have a small QA team, definitely ask about getting help in the form of a test manager. I hope they make this kind of thing more official as ours has been a game-changer! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

One bottleneck we were experiencing was the need to check all areas of our application thoroughly before pushing out new builds. With Rainforest's implementation of the crowd, we are able to do this within hours. This has greatly increased the pace with which we are able to continuously deploy quality code.

Because of the above, we have been able to keep our QA team relatively small. It has always been our intent to keep the QA team relatively small and despite sweeping improvements and additions to our software, we have been able to keep up with testing needs thanks in large part to Rainforest and their massively helpful tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Peter B.

Software Developer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/6/2021

"Rainforest is a great product that can improve test coverage in less time than traditional testing."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

Embeddable tests are essential for building variable tests without needing to record the same screenshot potentially multiple times. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Screenshot confidence between browsers lacks a bit; font-weight/size is affected between Chrome and Safari. For example, and is causing failures in automated testing in some browsers while passing in others with no fundamental difference in the testing logic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/22/2021

"Comprehensive test coverage with a tasful blend of precision and speed"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

The user interface and ability to create tests that cover the entire product. Moreover, the customer service team is very approachable and provide valuable feedback in bettering our tests. Also their availability on slack is just icing on the cake. Furthermore, the comments testers leave on failed steps that are actually should have failed is extremely valuable and helps us fill in the gaps of our test that we may have overlooked. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

The RFQA automation test that uses crowdsourcing can at times enroll testers who sometimes fail on trivial steps of the test. While approaching product release, this on one occasion has lead our team to manually run those tests. This in turn required us to spent quite a few hours.

The RFQA exploratory team is more adept in running tests. It would be nice if a level close to this is seen on the RFQA automation team. Otherwise the RFQA platform is extremely easy to use, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rainforest QA:

This platform is extremely robust when it comes to covering the quality of your entire SaaS. The customer service is top notch where one can expect a reply in a few minutes. They give invaluable feedback in bettering our tests to ensure a smooth product release cycle.

The ability write embedded steps in tests helps one to build off of previously established work thus circumventing the whole reinvention of the wheel. Please ask for a trial run of the platform and ask questions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

Testing different product areas of a data science platform. Ability to rectify any issues in the product which in turn provides a seamless experience to our customers while using out product. Personally I am creating tests on RFQA that mimics the workflow of Data Science Practitioners(DSPs). Hence if my tests pass at a decent cadence, we can say with a reasonable surety that our platform holds up to the challenges DSPs throw at it everyday. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

John S.

QA Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/8/2021

"Amazing Crowdsourced QA Testing"

5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

The help chat is always there whenever you have any issue, and the response and resolution time is far above average among vendors I have used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Currently, the VMs do not have audio/visual input support, not even simulated. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rainforest QA:

Yelp for help whenever things are not clear, and the help comes quickly. If the help chat does not help to resolve it, it is fairly easy to set up a deep dive or feedback session in which the support can identify features that you might have missed reading by yourself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have been able to provide more consistent automated coverages of tests that we could not otherwise automate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Emily M.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/18/2020

"Makes QA Work Efficient and Easy"

5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

Ease of use - there are multiple ways to write a test; plain English, automation, you can even submit a video and have test writers write the test on your behalf. When writing tests, the ability to preview tests before publishing is also a nice feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Coming up with test data. Our company deals with a lot pf PII, so spending time making fake files can be a bit of a hassle, but that'd be the case with or without Rainforest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/18/2020

"Great Experience"

5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

Because we are short-staffed, it is nice having Rainforest to fall back on. They show you your history of running each test, they have automation as well as tests that utilize human intervention. If you need help writing a test, they will write or rewrite it for you! They assign a program manager to you so you can ask questions about the product. My PM, Dave, is the best! I have has a positive experience over all! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Rainforest does not fully understand our application so its hard figuring out how to use the exploratory test or test writing services to create new tests. This is not a flaw on Rainforest's part, necessarily. This is just how it works since they are a third party tool and it is up to me to communicate new features to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Professional Training & Coaching

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/17/2020

"My Rainforest for the most part, has been responsive, dependable, reliable, and accurate."

4/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

I like the fact that the test case writing process is as simple as your understanding for the feature you are writing for. By having the english step by step option, test case writing looks more like a story that the crowd tester is integrated with than just a dumb terminal running a test case suite. Also the feedback from the crowd makes it easy to troubleshoot the issue or add more clear and concise verbiage to the existing test case. Lastly,I like it that Rainforest has decided to bolster their initiative to make the automation testing more robust. I look forward to harness the potential power of such a testing tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

I dislike the amount of time that it takes to spin up a virtual machine instance for the English written cases as well as the automation cases. There are times when I have waited several minutes for the terminal to be ready. In our world that seems like a lifetime. I also am not fond of the amount of time that it takes for the automation to cache and run the test cases after the vm has loaded. It does not appear to front load the cases and then run them instead it appears that it reads each test case in serial prior to loading and then running. I am also not a fan of not having some sought of library that can be used when creating the automation cases. Lastly, there should be an auto save for the automation case writing so that you don't lose hours of work because somehow the window got closed or navigated away from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rainforest QA:

If you are looking to maximize your QA testing bottom lines, Rainforest offers scalability, time savings, cost cutting and flexibility. All the things that are needed to release a strongly tested product to your clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are solving for volume and velocity by having the flexibility of having the crowd testing done literally in tandem with each other at any given time. We are also solving for efficiency with the simplicity of test case writing which ensures expeditious test case preview and execution. Thirdly, we are solving the large cost associated with engineers having to manually run periodic and systematic test cases on a time schedule. Having the run groups at our disposal helps minimize that burden. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas R.

Software Engineer II

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/17/2020

"Deploy and sleep sounder at night"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

- test creation is simple via screen shots

- easy to use api for ci/cd integration

- tests are easily reviewable because of video playback

- ability to run tests via automation or via crowd

- tagging system for separating false positives from real issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

- mobile support (browser) could be a bit stronger

- tests can take some time to run

- refactoring test steps can be a little monotonous Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

James K.

Director of Product

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/19/2017

"Innovative approach to QA that allowed us to get coverage in record time."

4.5/5

What do you like best about Rainforest QA?

The ability to run "manual" test on demand and get results within hours and not days. Also the Rainforest Team is very helpful and responsive, we have worked with them to provide feedback and they have help us with or ambitious automation goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Rainforest QA?

Most of the issues that I dislike are unique to our process and products. The way tests are linked to "sites" makes it difficult for some of our integration goals. Not being able to track tests results across an arbitrary "release record/tag" and get that info via the api. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Rainforest QA:

Your current approaches to testing may not 100% translate to the Rainforest platform as they exist today but they are possible. Work with Rainforest and they will get you where you want to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Rainforest QA solving and how is that benefiting you?

Quick functional testing & feedback on new software releases. We are able to quickly determine if new releases have regression or are ready to move up the CD pipeline. Zero infrastructure cross browser testing is a huge problem we are solving with Rainforest. We have realized our goals for faster commit to deploy times and great confidence in releases. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.