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 […]
Getting started with Unit Testing using mock in Python
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 […]
Start Automation Quickly with Qxf2’s Framework using Cookiecutter
We came across Cookiecutter when working at a client. It is a tool that helps you create new projects based on templates. We decided to try it with our test automation framework. We have provided all the code used in this project on GitHub so that you can follow along. What is Cookiecutter? Cookiecutter is a command-line utility that creates […]
How to start using the Qxf2 framework with a new project
This post will help you in modifying the Qxf2’s open-sourced test automation framework to use with your new project. In this post, you will learn about the files and folders to edit and delete so you can use the framework to write tests for your web or mobile application. If you want to read more before you start Here is […]
Automation testing of Text to Speech web app
As a part of Qxf2Services Hackathon, I had picked up a project to automate testing of a readily available Text to Speech web app. To follow along, I assume you have some familiarity with Python, Selenium. Overview of Text to Speech Demo app To try out the testing of Text to Speech, I was looking for a readily available web app which can […]
Automate creating new boards on Trello using Python
This post contains a brief summary of my Qxf2 Hackathon project. It also has a link to a GitHub repository with some useful code that you can use to interact with Trello. We, at Qxf2, are agile & our sprints last a week. At the end of every week, someone (we rotate the responsibility) creates a new Trello board, add […]
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 […]
Automated cloud testing setup using Selenium grid and Docker Swarm
Maintaining infrastructure for automated Selenium cross-browser tests is time-consuming. The cloud testing platforms like BrowserStack and Saucelabs help you. But in some cases, you want to have your own cloud testing environment. This is usually time-consuming and involves setting up and using Selenium Grid. This post helps testers to automate the setup process for cloud-based testing. We hope this post […]