Introduction When writing automation tests there are several ways to locate the web elements using Selenium such as: id, linkText, name, partialLinkText, tagName and xpath. The following link describes the documentation of By class in selenium in case you are interested for more details.There is no silver bullet solution for…
Working with Rest Assured Matchers
What are matchers? The main goal when testing the restful api is to validate that the api is working according the requirements. In order to achieve this, the retrieved response has to be validated. In many cases JUnit Assert is used for validating the end result, but when validating the…
Keeping your automation tests clean
How many times have you started project for automation tests, and at the end end-up spending more time maintaining the automation tests, instead increasing the coverage? How many times have you ended having duplicate code in multiple classes? How many times have you had issues with the automation tests because…
Why clean architecture is important for automation testing
Introduction Writing automation tests requires the equal mindset as writing code for a software, in most cases this rule is forgotten by many people, and they run in technical debt in the future. When writing the automation tests the main focus is to cover the functionalities that are currently developed,…
Decrease boilerplate code for API automation using Rest Assured and BDD
In today’s modern development of web and mobile application, the applications need to communicate with the backend in a secure and organized way. This can be achieved by using Application Programming Interface (API). The API is communicating with the backend through the HTTP protocol using the methods GET, POST, PUT,…
Mobile Web testing on Android 8.0 and Chrome 61
Why Chrome? With the emulators running on older Android versions, the default Android browser was available, and also the Android browser was also included in the real mobile devices running on older Android versions. With the arrival of the newer Android versions the Android browser hasn’t been actively supported, but…
Benefits using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) in automation testing
Why choose BDD? There are several benefits that you can get by using BDD in your automation tests, such as: Functionalities defined with descriptive scenarios. Functionality scenarios are defined as features. Scenario steps are reusable in the feature file. Up to date use cases. Understandable test scenarios for non technical…
Automation tests for Mobile Web with Appium
Introduction Most of today’s web applications implement responsive design to gain more users in different device sizes. But by using this approach comes great responsibility from QA perspective, because the application has to be covered for Desktop, Tablet, and Mobile. If we had one test case (TC), and by executing…
Automation tests for iOS app using Appium (Part 3)
Introduction In the previous post I have talked about the iOS driver initialization, and its configuration, and few tips that are going to help you while writing the automation tests. But before you start writing the automation tests you need to know which location strategy to use in order to locate…
Automation tests for iOS app using Appium (Part 2)
Introduction In the previous post I have talked about the Appium requirements for running automation tests on iOS, project structure, and the configuration. In this post I’m going to spend more time talking about the code structure, initializing the driver, common issues that every newcomer may occur, and how to…