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Email testing

16.0.0

Email testing

Built-in automated email testing for end-to-end flows

If your product sends emails, your automation needs to test them.

DoesQA includes a fully integrated email testing system that lets you receive, inspect, assert, and interact with emails directly inside your automated tests. No third-party inboxes. No forwarding hacks. No brittle workarounds.

Built-in automated email testing for end-to-end flows

From confirmation emails to magic links, OTP codes, and marketing campaigns, you can test every email your service sends as part of your functional pack.

Email is often the glue that holds a user journey together. With DoesQA you can:

  • Confirm account registrations

  • Reset forgotten passwords

  • Validate password-less or magic-link logins

  • Retrieve and use OTP codes for MFA

  • Interact with call-to-action buttons inside emails

  • Follow links and continue the journey in the browser

  • Building and debugging new tests

  • Monitoring email behaviour across runs

  • Inspecting content manually

  • Supporting manual testers

  • No cross-test contamination

  • No manual cleanup

Test real user journeys, end to end

Follow links and continue the journey in the browser

Your tests do not stop at the UI. They follow the full lifecycle of a real user interaction.

Two inbox types for different workflows

Every DoesQA account includes a persistent mailbox.

You can access your mailboxes from the main menu at any time.

Assert everything inside the email

Each test run can generate a brand new, unique email address.

Register a new user, receive the confirmation email, extract an OTP code, click the magic link, and continue the journey without ever leaving your test.

OTP and MFA ready

Email testing in DoesQA is not limited to checking subject lines.

You can use the full power of the platform against your emails, including:

Faster feedback, stronger confidence

Visual regression to detect layout or styling changes

An email becomes just another surface to validate with the same consistency and control as your web application.

Modern applications rely heavily on one-time passwords and multi-factor authentication.

This allows you to test guest users, new users, returning users, and MFA-enabled accounts within the same branching flows.

Email failures are easy to miss in manual testing and often overlooked in automation.

By integrating automated email testing directly into your functional test packs, you:

Reduce the risk of failed onboarding or checkout flows

Email is no longer an afterthought. It is a first-class part of your automation strategy.

DoesQA Flows dashboard

Get your next release tested end to end.

Hosted journeys with email, MFA, and branching. Shared Elements keep maintenance low. Pass and fail from real hosted browsers.

DoesQA Flows dashboard

Get your next release tested end to end.

Hosted journeys with email, MFA, and branching. Shared Elements keep maintenance low. Pass and fail from real hosted browsers.

Get your next release tested end to end.

Hosted journeys with email, MFA, and branching. Shared Elements keep maintenance low. Pass and fail from real hosted browsers.