When testing mobile apps, functional validation is only half the story. A lot of critical issues surface during non-functional testing, especially in areas like interruption testing. One of the key subcategories under interruption testing is network interruption testing. Some features that work flawlessly on a strong Wi-Fi connection can slow down, fail silently, or time out when the network becomes […]
Simulating slow network speeds for mobile app testing using your laptop as a hotspot
Writing XPaths to validate UI with Appium OCR Plugin
In our previous post, we suggested that Accessibility ID as a reliable locator strategy for identifying mobile elements across different platforms. While working on the task, we explored another plugin – Appium OCR Plugin that helped us write robust XPaths to validate UI that worked on both iOS and Android. But the problem we had was, although we were able […]
Accessibility ID as a locator strategy on Appium for iOS and Android apps
We‘re working on a Flutter app that connects to the Cars API API microservice to retrieve and display a list of cars. As testers working on this app, our primary motivation was to explore Flutter and gain a deeper understanding of how it supports cross-platform development. At the same time, we aimed to ensure that the testing process was smooth, […]
Working with WebView context in Android mobile automation test
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]