Glossary of Testing Terms and webmate Terminology
This glossary explains common testing terms and webmate specific terminology in one place.
Use it as a quick reference when you encounter a feature name, role, or workflow term in the documentation.
Appium Inspector
Appium Inspector is a desktop tool for inspecting mobile app user interfaces and validating Appium locators. In the webmate documentation it is primarily relevant for app testing and Workbench-centered mobile testing flows.
Audit Lab
Audit Lab is webmate’s workspace for planning structured audits, collecting findings, and generating reports. It combines manual review, automated checks, and audit templates for accessibility standards such as WCAG as well as broader review workflows.
Capability Builder
The Capability Builder is the helper for creating Selenium or Appium capability sets for a desired environment. It reduces trial-and-error when configuring browser, device, or platform combinations for automated testing.
Cypressbridge
Cypressbridge is the webmate helper utility that connects Cypress tests to the webmate infrastructure. It belongs to the same family of bridge tools as Mobilebridge, but targets Cypress-based browser automation.
Device Slot
A device slot is the reservable place in a project where a browser, desktop, or mobile device can be deployed. Slots define how many parallel test environments a project can actively use.
End-to-End Test
An end-to-end test validates a complete user-facing workflow across the relevant layers of an application. In this docs repository, Playwright end-to-end tests are also used to confirm that documentation pages render and remain discoverable through site search.
Instrumentation
Instrumentation is the process of preparing a mobile app build so webmate can enable additional testing features such as simulations or secure-screen related support. Several app-testing and Workbench features depend on installing the instrumented package instead of the original one.
Manual Test
A manual test is an interactive test executed directly by a human instead of by automation code. webmate supports manual testing through browser-based access to real devices and desktops in the Workbench and related interactive tools.
Mobilebridge
Mobilebridge is the webmate helper utility for connecting mobile app debugging or automation tooling to devices hosted on webmate. It is commonly used in Appium-related or device-debugging scenarios.
Playwright Testing
Playwright Testing refers to running Playwright-based browser automation against webmate infrastructure. The corresponding docs section explains how to point Playwright to webmate’s remote Selenium endpoint.
Project Admin
A Project Admin is a user role with elevated permissions inside a specific project. Project Admins can usually manage project-level resources such as reservations, users, and device-related settings without requiring full instance-wide administration.
Reference Article
A reference article provides technical details, definitions, or capability overviews instead of a step-by-step walkthrough. The Documentation Structure page explains how reference articles differ from tutorials and how-to articles.
Reservation
A reservation is the active booking period during which a user or project holds a device, browser, or other testing resource. Reservations ensure that shared infrastructure is allocated predictably during testing.
Screen Reader Control
Screen Reader Control is the Workbench feature for testing how assistive technologies navigate and announce content. It helps verify whether interfaces are usable with screen readers such as TalkBack.
Secure Screen
A secure screen is an operating-system level protection that blocks screenshots or screen recording for sensitive views. In webmate documentation, the term is especially relevant for Android instrumentation and related app-testing limitations or workarounds.
Test Run
A test run is the recorded execution of a manual or automated test session, including metadata, states, screenshots, and results. Test runs are central to result analysis in Test Management and related reference pages.
WCAG Automation
WCAG Automation is the Workbench capability for automated checks against accessibility criteria derived from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It helps teams identify common accessibility issues before or alongside manual review.
Workbench
Workbench is the webmate environment for manual and semi-assisted testing across devices, browsers, and accessibility tooling. It brings together deployment, interactive analysis, screenshots, videos, findings, and related feature workflows in one place.