The mass advancement in machine learning and artificial intelligence is affecting every sector of every industry, and test automation is no exception AI is being used in multiple areas of software testing, including: Visually automated testing: Drive testing through the UI by using Image Comparison Automated API Testing:...
You’ve made it this far! By now you’re a full-fledged Appium ninja. It’s time to round out some of your new skills with additional tips and tricks. Appium is a sophisticated and ever updating testing platform, and with a growing user base forming, you’re bound to...
Design patterns are used extensively when programming and they generally offer a reusable solution to a known occurring problem. In many respects, the introduce a set of best practices into your code and usually result in more flexible and maintainable code. Strictly speaking, design patterns are...
Up until now, you’ve learned the basics of using Appium and testing against emulators and simulators. However, for production apps it is imperative to test on real devices to ensure the behavior is as expected for your end-users. The mobile ecosystem is particularly fragmented given...
Up until now we’ve learned all the Appium basics, including how to extract elements and executing the tests on devices and emulators. Although automation is great, in today’s fast moving world there is a constant demand to execute tests faster and on more devices. So the...
In the last chapter we explored the Page Object Model in some detail. If you recall, we touched on the wait method and its significance and we promised to get back to it. So in this chapter we will understand how wait (or Synchronization) performs...
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In the last chapter we discussed the Appium Inspector tool and learned how we can extract the elements for any application. Appium Inspector is a great tool to extract elements from Android and iOS both. However, it can take some time to do so. In the...
As you learned in the previous chapter, In order to perform automation it’s necessary to locate the unique selectors for: Mobile Applications and Mobile Web Browser(Chrome). However, if you haven’t already realized (you soon will!), finding these unique elements can sometimes be painful. And this is where the...
Understanding how to properly use Element Locators is key to building your automation scripts. After all, if you’re unable to “find” the UI element, you cannot control it (such as clicking a button). In Mobile (or Web) Automation Testing automating any scenario follows these 2 steps: ...