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 […]
Weather Shopper: Practical way to learn Appium and Programming Language
Virtualizing GraphQL Microservice using Apollo Server
There is plenty of information online about how to virtualize REST based microservices. At our clients, Qxf2 has implemented different techniques like using a Flask app, using wiremock, etc. But recently we found the need to for virtualizing a GraphQL microservice to expand the scope of our test automation on our CI environment. In this post, we will show one […]
Mocking an AWS SQS queue using moto
This post shows you a short example of how to use the Python module moto to mock a SQS queue. This technique is useful when writing code level tests for applications hosted on an AWS stack. We will work with a method that takes a string as an input, processes the string and then writes it to an SQS queue. […]
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 […]
Python unit tests using mock
Problem: Introductions to Python unit checking are too basic This post is for the hands on tester looking to practice their unit checking skills. Why this post? Unit checks are good. They play an important role in your regression suite. Online tutorials of Python unit checks invariably leave me wanting more. The examples covered are extremely basic. Further, these basic […]