Problem: There is a perception among testers that getting started with mobile automation is hard. Why this post? I strongly believe that a tester must have a wide range of skills. You do not need to be an expert in all of them, but it is extremely important to have contemplated a spectrum of concepts and explored a variety of […]
Get started with mobile automation: Appium & Python
Using Firebug 2.0 to craft XPaths
Firebug has been my favorite Firefox add-on for a long time now. In the time before every browser had decent developer tools, Firebug was a revolutionary add-on that allowed many testers, like myself, tools to interact, learn and explore what web applications were doing. I recently upgraded my Firebug to version 2.0. I was pleasantly surprised to find a cool […]
Get started with mobile automation: Selendroid & Python
Problem: There is a perception among testers that getting started with mobile automation is hard. Why this post? I strongly believe that a tester must have a wide range of skills. You do not need to be an expert in all of them, but it is extremely important to have contemplated a spectrum of concepts and explored a variety of […]
The art of writing xpaths
Problem: Writing XPaths is hard and confusing when there are no unique identifiers XPath (XML Path Language) is a query language for selecting nodes from Document Object Models (DOM) like XML, HTML, etc. XPaths are frequently used with Selenium scripts to uniquely identify elements in page. This post is a descriptive tutorial on how to think about xpaths and write […]
API Testing using Runscope
Problem: Automating tests for APIs and backend services can be time consuming. Runscope is a powerful tool to help you quickly get started with API testing. Runscope is a tool which helps us to automate web services testing. Runscope has a user friendly web interface. It also allows you to perform advanced variable manipulations and complex assertions in your tests […]
Cross browser testing tools
Problem: Maintaining testing infrastructure for testing across different combinations of browser, browser version and platform is difficult and time consuming. Of late, there are many tools that help testers quickly spin up any combination of browser, browser version and platform. Below, we give a brief outline of some tools that we use at Qxf2 Services for doing cross browser testing. Cross […]