As a tester, we work with applications deployed on Kubernetes. That means, we need to know how to interact with various components of Kubernetes. But most online tutorials start with stuff that applies mostly to developers and DevOps engineers like install, writing deploy scripts, etc. Those are not really useful to testers, at least not directly. So, in this blog, […]
Investigation of the application deployed on Kubernetes
Exploratory Testing using Chrome Extension
This post is for those who do a lot of exploratory testing. Exploratory testing is an important part of the agile environment, it helps testers to keep up with rapid development. It’s considered a phase where tester learns, does test design, and executes it simultaneously. This article helps the tester by highlighting how using a plugin from chrome called “Exploratory […]
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 […]
Practice Python by fixing errors
You can now practice Python by fixing errors. We have created a GitHub repository with common errors that Python beginners are likely to make in their code. This is not meant for intermediate level of Python developers. The errors are super basic and laughably simple for intermediate users. We created only simple challenges so that beginners can develop the momentum […]
Contributing code to GitHub projects
This post helps you understand how to contribute code to open source projects on GitHub. It assumes that you already know about how to use git for version control and that you already have a GitHub account. Why bother rehashing what is already on the Internet? Skip this section if you are not wondering why we are writing this […]
Testers, get started with git
Hey, tester! It is 2017 and about time we all got comfortable with Git. I’ve heard too many testers saying that they think it’s too difficult to get started with git and that getting familiar with Git will take time. I’ve been thinking about how to get rid of this objection. I’m going to try and explain the basic concepts […]
BrowserStack Live: Running manual tests on the cloud
Ever wanted to quickly see if you can reproduce an issue on a specific combination of browser version and operating system? In this post, we will show you how to use BrowserStack’s Live offering to test your web and mobile applications across a wide range of browser and operating systems. Why this post? We work with startups. Many times, our […]
Android unit testing: Android testing framework and Robolectric
Problem: There are not many good tutorials on Android unit testing Android applications are written in Java. So you probably think if you know JUnit, you can unit test Android applications. Surprise! JUnit is not sufficient for unit testing Android applications. Junit works when the code runs within a JVM. Android applications interact with the Android OS. So you need […]
What is NAF ?
UIAutomatorViewer is a tool to inspect and identify UI elements in Android apps. However not every UI element you see is accessible to UIAutomatorViewer. Sigh. I know. That sucks. But at the very least, UIAutomatorViewer lets you know which of these elements are not accessible. I was messing around with Appium and DroidFish secretly hoping to write an automated test […]
appWaitActivity: A new session could not be created
While exploring Appium with mobile devices I hit the following error WebDriverException: Message: u’A new session could not be created. (Original error: atpwta.live/.activity.Main never started. Current: atpwta.live/.activity.root.TournamentList)’ Initially, I had set desired capabilities to: desired_caps[’platformName’] = ‘Android’ desired_caps[’platformVersion’] = ‘4.4’ desired_caps[’deviceName’] = ‘Moto E’ desired_caps[’appPackage’] = ‘atpwta.live’ desired_caps[’appActivity’] = ‘.activity.Main’desired_caps[‘platformName’] = ‘Android’ desired_caps[‘platformVersion’] = ‘4.4’ desired_caps[‘deviceName’] = ‘Moto E’ desired_caps[‘appPackage’] […]