Problem: There is a perception among testers that getting started with mobile automation is hard. Why this post? I strongly believe that a tester must have a wide range of skills. You do not need to be an expert in all of them, but it is extremely important to have contemplated a spectrum of concepts and explored a variety of […]
Get started with mobile automation: Appium & Python
Using Firebug 2.0 to craft XPaths
Firebug has been my favorite Firefox add-on for a long time now. In the time before every browser had decent developer tools, Firebug was a revolutionary add-on that allowed many testers, like myself, tools to interact, learn and explore what web applications were doing. I recently upgraded my Firebug to version 2.0. I was pleasantly surprised to find a cool […]
Get started with mobile automation: Selendroid & Python
Problem: There is a perception among testers that getting started with mobile automation is hard. Why this post? I strongly believe that a tester must have a wide range of skills. You do not need to be an expert in all of them, but it is extremely important to have contemplated a spectrum of concepts and explored a variety of […]
The art of writing xpaths
Problem: Writing XPaths is hard and confusing when there are no unique identifiers XPath (XML Path Language) is a query language for selecting nodes from Document Object Models (DOM) like XML, HTML, etc. XPaths are frequently used with Selenium scripts to uniquely identify elements in page. This post is a descriptive tutorial on how to think about xpaths and write […]
API Testing using Runscope
Problem: Automating tests for APIs and backend services can be time consuming. Runscope is a powerful tool to help you quickly get started with API testing. Runscope is a tool which helps us to automate web services testing. Runscope has a user friendly web interface. It also allows you to perform advanced variable manipulations and complex assertions in your tests […]
Cross browser testing tools
Problem: Maintaining testing infrastructure for testing across different combinations of browser, browser version and platform is difficult and time consuming. Of late, there are many tools that help testers quickly spin up any combination of browser, browser version and platform. Below, we give a brief outline of some tools that we use at Qxf2 Services for doing cross browser testing. Cross […]
Running Selenium automation using Sauce Labs: Part 3
Problem: Different test runs require different configuration on Sauce Labs. In this post, we will show you how to make your automated test runs to use specific configuration parameters of Sauce Labs. TWEAKING SAUCE LABS CONFIGURATION Some nightly automated selenium checks that we run at Qxf2 Services need to be run only on specific browsers. Further some of our nightly […]
Running Selenium automation using Sauce Labs: Part 2
Problem: Selenium automation should run tests across different browsers and platforms on Sauce labs. In a previous post titled Running Selenium automation using Sauce Labs: Part I, we showed you how to get started with running your Selenium tests on Sauce Labs. In this post we will show you how to parameterize the test so that you can run the test […]
Running Selenium automation using Sauce Labs: Part I
Problem: Maintaining infrastructure for automated Selenium cross browser tests is time consuming. At Qxf2 Services, we use Selenium and Python for UI testing of web applications. Recently, we began using Sauce Labs to run our automated tests against different browsers. Sauce Labs cloud testing platform allows you to test web applications on 200+ browsers and platforms. They support the major […]
Client-User balance
Takeaway: Clients and users are not always the same entity. Clients pay for the product. Users use the product. Clients and users can have different success criteria for your product. Client-User balance Clients and users may not always have overlapping needs. Clients and users can have different success criteria for your product. As the client, I may care about: * […]