Introducing Mobile

When we set out to build Spectr, we wanted AI-native testing that was easy to author and maintain. Since then, engineering teams have used Spectr to raise their quality bar across web and API. But web is only half the story.

Why we built it

Mobile teams feel the same pain, often worse. Writing Appium or XCUITest scripts requires specialist knowledge, takes days, and breaks every time the app changes. AI should be able to solve this — and now it does.

• •Appium and XCUITest require days of specialist setup — Spectr generates them in seconds
• •Mobile UI changes break tests constantly — self-healing locators fix this automatically
• •Separate web and mobile test suites create maintenance overhead — Spectr unifies both
• •QA teams can't scale fast enough — AI does the authoring, humans review the output

Technical highlights

Spectr Mobile is built on the same eval-gated orchestration pipeline as web testing. Every generated mobile test is scored on Faithfulness, Coverage, Correctness, AssertionDensity, and AntiPattern metrics before it reaches your CI pipeline.

Building the AI-native testing platform

Mobile testing is architecturally harder than web. Element hierarchies are deeper, accessibility identifiers are inconsistent, and there's no universal selector standard. Spectr's mobile orchestrator solves this with a three-layer locator strategy:

// Spectr Mobile — locator resolution order
1. accessibility ID (stable across OS updates)
2. resource-id / name attribute
3. XPath fallback with self-healing re-anchor

// Generated Appium spec (AI-authored)
await driver.$('~login-button').click();
await driver.$('~email-input').setValue('user@test.com');
await expect(driver.$('~dashboard-header')).toBeDisplayed();

Getting started

Spectr Mobile is available today on all plans. To enable it:

• 1.Navigate to AI OPS → Test Generator and select "Mobile" in the automation type selector
• 2.Describe your mobile flow in plain English (e.g. "User adds item to cart and checks out on iOS")
• 3.Spectr generates an Appium or XCUITest spec and runs the eval gate automatically
• 4.Download the spec or stream it directly to your CI via the Spectr GitHub Action

Tired of Appium or XCUITest? We'd love to help.