What is Leapwork?
Leapwork is a no-code automation platform that lets QA teams and business users create tests without writing code. Its flowchart-based interface makes test design simple, while supporting web, desktop, and mobile apps. By reducing complexity, Leapwork helps teams save time, cut maintenance, and keep applications running smoothly across environments.
Key Features of Leapwork
Leapwork provides a set of powerful features to streamline automation:
1. Recording and Editing Test Cases
- Build automation flows by dragging and connecting blocks.
- No programming skills required.
- Use Smart Recorder to capture interactions with desktop and web applications or Smart Mobile Recorder to Automate interactions with native mobile applications.
- Edit and refine test flows visually, adapting them to new requirements.
2. Running and Debugging Automation
- Execute tests remotely using Leapwork Agents, Leapwork Cloud, or integrate with cloud providers like Selenium Grid, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs
- Debug automation runs efficiently with detailed execution logs and video recordings.
3. Organizing and Scheduling Test Plans
- Create and manage test plans by organizing test cases into structured run lists.
- Run automation flows on demand or schedule them across different environments.
4. Reviewing Test Results and Reports
- Monitor test execution with real-time results and in-depth reports.
- Use dashboards to continuously track automation success and test coverage.
- Check videos of automation run for better debugging.
5. Collaboration and Integration
- Manage user roles, permissions, and structured workflows.
- Integrate with external tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Manage teams, permissions, and access control for efficient collaboration.
What can you automate with Leapwork?
This is one of the most critical activities we should do before implementing test automation. Automating everything is not possible or recommended because it can lead to more maintenance, and counter-intuitively more effort. Hence it is advised to identify the list of cases we need to automate before we implement automation.
Some of the factors we should consider are:
- Automate predictable scenarios only. The test case selected for automation should have a clearly defined objective.
- Try automating those tests which are repetitive in nature like Regression suite
- Automate data-intensive tests where a large set of data testing is needed.
- High-risk features with complex calculations should be automated to avoid critical mistakes due to human errors.
- Consider automating tests that require testing combinations on multiple hardware/ software/ platforms and browsers.
- The time-consuming test should be automated to save unnecessary manual efforts.
How to Use Leapwork for Test Automation
1. Install & Set Up Leapwork
- Download and install Leapwork Studio.
- Connect it to the environments you want to test (web, desktop, mobile, or APIs).
- Set up agents (local or remote machines) where tests will run.
2. Create a New Test Flow
- Open Leapwork Studio and create a new flow (test case).
- Use the drag-and-drop blocks (e.g., “Click”, “Type”, “Wait”, “Verify”).
- Connect the blocks visually to define the test steps like a flowchart.
The image below shows an example of how an automation case in LEAPWORK could look like.
3. Configure Test Steps
- Select elements on the application (web button, text field, API endpoint).
- Define actions (click, input text, validate output).
- Add conditions (e.g., wait until an element is visible).
4. Use Data-Driven Testing
- Link your flow to Excel, databases, or CSV files for test data.
5. Run the Test
Choose where to run the test:
- Locally on your machine.
- On a remote agent or cloud setup.
- Run the flow and view real-time execution.
6. Review Results & Logs
- After execution, Leapwork provides:
- Screenshots of each step, Logs and error messages
- Pass/fail status for quick analysis.
Leapwork in 2025
Leapwork has evolved into a codeless-first enterprise automation platform. With AI-powered healing, robust integrations, and support for complex enterprise apps, it’s helping organizations:
- Reduce QA bottlenecks.
- Empower business users to participate in testing.
- Scale automation without depending solely on coding expertise.
For companies with large, multi-platform systems, Leapwork has become a go-to choice in 2025 for simplifying and scaling test automation.
