Qxf2 had created an Android mobile app recently to help testers practice mobile test automation. As a next step, we wanted to provide a sample mobile test that comes out of the box with our framework. We worked on automating a scenario – click on options in the mobile app one after another and validate the URL opened in the […]
Working with WebView context in Android mobile automation test
Enhancements to Mobile testing in Qxf2 Page Object Model framework
Qxf2’s Page Object Model framework has been a dependable automation framework for mobile testing. Team Qxf2 has added support for all the major gestures to our framework. In this blog, we’ll explore these mobile capabilities that were added to our framework. 1. Swipe until an element is found Swiping is a common gesture in mobile applications, used to navigate through […]
Troubleshooting Zoom out issue in Appium
Qxf2 has steadily been improving the mobile automation capabilities of our Test automation framework that wraps around Appium. We wanted to add support for the traditional pinch-to-zoom method in our framework. To achieve this, we used the SwagLabs as the application under test and developed this feature. In this post, we’ll discuss a particular challenge we faced with the zoom […]
Weather Shopper: Practical way to learn Appium and Programming Language
This post is for testers who are new to programming and looking to learn mobile test automation. Qxf2 Services has developed an Android application – Weather Shopper, to help testers practice Android app automation using Appium and learn programming languages simultaneously. You can get the application from Google Play Store here. Weather Shopper application offers a rich set of mobile […]
Build and Test iOS app with Qxf2 Framework and Appium.
Why this post? In this post, we are going to look into, how to test an iOS app with Python-based testing framework using appium. This is a step by step procedure, right from building an app, writing a test for iOS app in Python using Qxf2 test automation framework and then actual testing of app with Appium on Mac OS […]
Qxf2’s automation testing framework uses Python 3
We have updated our open-sourced GUI automation testing framework to use Python3. This update was due for a long time. We have had a lot of requests from people asking for our framework to use Python3 and we finally found the bandwidth needed to migrate to Python3. We will also no longer support Python2. If you already use our framework […]
Qxf2 has open sourced a Python-based automation testing framework
We have open-sourced our test automation framework. You can now write Selenium and Appium tests in Python using the Page Object pattern. Our Pythonic web, mobile and REST API test automation framework will help you get started with QA automation quickly. It comes with many useful integrations like – email, Slack, TestRail, BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, etc. You can find it […]
Get Set Test an iOS app using Appium and Python
It has been more than a year since I wrote my first blog on mobile automation using Appium for Android applications. There were many requests to come up with a similar blog for iOS applications. But due to time constraints I couldn’t get to it. But as they say, better late than never! I finally have a guide to help […]
Python and Appium: Scroll through search result table
In this post we show you how to scroll through a table and identify elements. We also tackle the case where the table spans multiple pages. This is a natural and common workflow on most mobile devices. A typical use case involves the user performing a search within a mobile application. The app returns a table of results. The user […]
Android and Appium: Press Enter on the soft keyboard
Problem: Use Appium and press ‘Enter’ on the soft keyboard. This post continues our series on intermediate level problems when automating mobile application tests using Appium. We thought of sending a KeyEvent to an input (textbox) element using Appium. Superficially this appears to be trivial, but while writing the script, figured out otherwise. To our surprise, it failed. And there […]