London, UK, 20th June 2017 - Validata Group is pleased to announce the release of its own solution to enable fingerprint authentication both in interactive testing as well as in automation.
Touch ID or fingerprint authentication methods is one of the emerging trends in the software industry, in an effort to increase the security of mobile applications. Users are able to have increased security when using their mobiles apps for purchases (games, retail), money transfers (banking) and other key sensitive transactions through biometric identification.
These biometric sensors in an application means clearly two things:
It is estimated that with the new fingerprint authentication test cases are increased at around 10%-30%.
Validata is able to test an application that has fingerprint authentication , by checking if the User is successfully identified, or if User is not authenticated by his fingerprint.
These biometric sensors in an application means clearly two things:
- New use cases need to be created and tested. For example, completing the purchase of an item at check-out, which now has re-authentication associated with it.
- With the new use cases, comes the issue of fitting those new cases into a limited time frame: we want to run a smoke test within minutes of code commit, run these test cases as part of the nightly regression test, etc.
It is estimated that with the new fingerprint authentication test cases are increased at around 10%-30%.
Validata is able to test an application that has fingerprint authentication , by checking if the User is successfully identified, or if User is not authenticated by his fingerprint.