In this post, we will show you how to update the test run status on LambdaTest. Although there are many articles online about integrating LambdaTest for running automation tests, most of them do not discuss how to update the test run status and importance of it. This post is a follow up to running test automation on LambdaTest using pytest. […]
Update LambdaTest test session with test run status
Upload test terminal logs to BrowserStack
Qxf2 engineers have used BrowserStack for many years. We added it to our testing framework too. When we check test failures, we use the video from BrowserStack. But seeing the log messages from our framework also helps. Developers find it easier to fix problems when they can see the logs. We noticed that adding this feature made developers more likely […]
Run automation tests on LambdaTest using pytest
Qxf2 has been using popular cross-browser tools like BrowserStack and Sauce Labs for long. Recently, we integrated the LambdaTest tool also with our Page Object Model Framework. So we thought to write about it. In this post, we will guide you through the process of running automation tests on LambdaTest using pytest. We will cover everything from setting up your […]
Collect real-time streaming data and store in Amazon S3 using Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose
This post will serve as a quick tutorial to understand and use Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. As a hands-on experience, here we will learn how to host a sample website using the apache web server on the EC2 Linux instance and collect the real-time logs of the website to AWS S3 using Kinesis Data Firehose. Why this post? Streaming data […]
Setup Linux testing environment on Windows using WSL1
Update: This solution works on WSL1 only Why this post? If you are one of those testers that had been using a Windows machine and have had to setup a Linux system for running your Selenium automation test, this post is for you. I had to setup a Linux system for running the automation tests for one of our clients. […]
Sending Email through Amazon SES with Flask App
This post is about sending automated Emails with Amazon Simple Email Service(SES). We wanted to explore Amazon SES and hence implemented a sample Flask app to send an automated email. What is Amazon SES? Email is the heartline of any business these days. So sending an automated email,is an important part of business, whether it is the response to a […]
Getting started with Unit Testing using mock in Python
Unit testing is considered as a vital phase in software testing. Anyone who has been involved in the software development life cycle will have encountered some form of testing. Although the aim of testing is to find bugs, it cannot guarantee the absence of other faults, no matter how creative the test cases are designed. Unit testing enables a more […]
How to run Qxf2 framework tests in parallel using pytest-xdist plugin
In this blog, we will show you how easily Qxf2’s page object model framework can be run in parallel using pytest-xdist plugin. As pre-requisite, Fork, and clone our framework. Follow the Readme.md and set up the framework. To run GUI tests in the framework parallel use the below command. As we have only 3 GUI tests I have passed 3 […]
Email your pytest results as html report
We have noticed that sometimes we want to see test results in our email inbox even though good reporting tools are being used. We at Qxf2 Services, use pytest as our test runner. A simple utility email_pytest_reports.py has been added to our framework which can send pytest results as simple HTML reports. This blog is on how we built an […]
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 […]