How to connect an Android device over a wireless network for Appium testing During our Appium training courses, we use Android devices tethered to the PCs via USB. However, it is possible to use Appium against Android devices over the wireless network, just by using some simple ADB commands. Step 1 Make sure the PC [...]
BDD with Ranorex and SpecFlow We have been asked a few times now about whether it is possible to use Ranorex together with Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) - and the answer is YES! Ranorex is built on Microsoft .NET, so we can use Microsoft Development Studio, together with SpecFlow (our BDD tool) and use the [...]
Linux Virtual Machine for Selenium Grid Part 2, link to part 1 Step 6 - Software installation and updates Xubuntus default Web Browser is Mozilla Firefox, and can be launched from the Application Launcher by clicking “Web Browser”. Checking the currently installed version from Help>About Firefox we see it’s the somewhat out-of-date version 45. There’s no [...]
As a follow on to the earlier tutorial How to set up a Selenium Grid for Remote WebDriver Execution, in this tutorial we are going to set up a small Linux Virtual Machine (VM) for running remote WebDriver tests via Selenium Grid. Broadly the steps involved are: Acquire and Install Virtual Machine Software Create a virtual [...]
What is Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)? History eXtreme Programming (XP) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) have been around for a long time. The idea was for stakeholders and testers to write automated tests that expressed their desired outcome from the system. These would fail to begin with as there was no code to test against, but [...]
Appium Desktop 1.1.0 beta4 introduces a Step Recorder. This allows you to record user actions and produces code for you. This can then be copied into Eclipse to give you a boiler-plate script to expand from. This is very useful for learning Appium or for creating templates to get up and running quickly. Step 1 [...]
This blog accompanies our BDD SpecFlow training course. It takes you step by step through installing Pickles and configuring reports in Pickles UI. Step 1 - Install Chocolatey Go to https://chocolatey.org/ Click Install Copy the link below the Installing Chocolatey section: @"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin" Open a command prompt [...]
This blog follows on from the previous blog about how to set up Selenium Grid for WebDriver or for Ranorex Web Testing. These instructions show you how to also include the Microsoft Edge Browser in your established Grid running on a Windows local host machine. Step 1 - Download MicrosoftWebDriver The first step is to [...]
Installing Appium Server on Windows In our Appium courses we use Appium Desktop as it provides a nice GUI wrapper around Appium Server and includes the Inspector for element identification and a step recorder. However, we may wish to integrate our Appium testing into Continuous Integration (CI) such as Jenkins. So we will want to [...]
For those of you that are using Selenium WebDriver 3 but haven't set up a remote Selenium Server, here is a simple guide to get you going. In this example we are just using 2 PCs. PC1 - This is the PC with Eclipse and WebDriver 3 installed (IP: 10.0.0.37) PC2 - This is the [...]