Aryan, a senior QA engineer at a growing Fintech Startup [Classified], was racing against time. His team was preparing for a major product release, and seamless email functionality was a top priority.
In today's fast paced development landscape, it's crucial to ensure the email functionality within your application works seamlessly. Emails are included in various flows of the application to enhance user experience - confirmation emails to validate the email id during sign ups, email OTP for logins, password resets, notifications to end users, or transactional emails. Bugs in emails can prevent new users from signing up or existing users to churn away. In this blog post, we'll explore how you can integrate MailSlurp with Playwright for robust email testing and introduce DevAssure—a next-generation platform that takes email testing to a whole new level.
Similar to OTPs, magic links are used to authenticate users by using only the email address. It is a "one-time use URL" sent to the user’s email address, which the user can use to securely access the application. The url contains time bound and secure embed tokens which help authenticate the user without a password.
OTP or One Time Password is used to secure data and a mechanism to secure user accounts through multi-factor authentication. Most applications have multi factor authentication enabled. In such applications, besides the username and password, users also provide the OTP, which is a series of alphanumeric characters generated at random for every request. Users also use OTP as a one-time access method to log in while validating the email they used to sign up.