Slides used in workshop on "Getting started with Appium 2.0" at AppiumConf 2021
https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15634/getting-started-with-appium-20
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Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms. Native apps are those written using iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a "webview" -- a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like Apache Cordova or Phonegap make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.
Importantly, Appium is "cross-platform": it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites.
"Learn All Aspects Of Appium step by step, Enhance your skills & Launch Your Career, On-Demand Course affordable price & classes on virtually every topic.Try Before You Buy
for maven online training visit: https://goo.gl/YKsHBZ"
Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms. Native apps are those written using iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a "webview" -- a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like Apache Cordova or Phonegap make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.
Importantly, Appium is "cross-platform": it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites.
This hands-on will feature getting started with automating Android with Espresso. We'll learn what’s Espresso, benefits of using it , tool set required for android app automation, writing a test using espresso API. We will start with setting up espresso using gradle and write test for single and multiple activities.
By: Deepika Verma, Nikhil Jain & Rohit Singhal
We will learn more about mobile application testing using the Appium automation testing Framework. We'll explore how it is different from web application testing, what is the importance of mobile application testing and lastly, why should we choose appium as a testing tool.
Join Appium expert Jonathan Lipps and Perfecto as we take you through the latest Appium tips and tricks. Find out what’s new with Appium and learn advanced test automation best practices, including:
* Proper use of object identifiers
* Benefits of using deep links to avoid test flakiness
* Cross platform test automation best practices
* Leveraging Appium to test application upgrades
Does your functional automation really add value?Anand Bagmar
We all know that automation is one of the key enablers for those on the CI-CD journey.
Most teams are:
• implementing automation
• talking about its benefits
• up-skilling themselves
• talking about tooling
• etc.
In my experience, unfortunately most of the functional automation that is built is:
• not optimal
• not fit-for-purpose
• does not run fast enough
• gives inconsistent feedback, hence unreliable
Hence, for the amount of effort invested in implementing automation, are you really getting the value from this activity?
In this talk, we will discuss these challenges and why it would lead to poor ROI of automation. More importantly, we will discuss the following techniques to make automation valuable:
• know the objective for the automation framework
• establish criteria for tests to be automated
• design your framework with proper abstraction layers
• develop using appropriate design patterns
This hands-on will feature getting started with automating Android with Espresso. We'll learn what’s Espresso, benefits of using it , tool set required for android app automation, writing a test using espresso API. We will start with setting up espresso using gradle and write test for single and multiple activities.
By: Deepika Verma, Nikhil Jain & Rohit Singhal
We will learn more about mobile application testing using the Appium automation testing Framework. We'll explore how it is different from web application testing, what is the importance of mobile application testing and lastly, why should we choose appium as a testing tool.
Join Appium expert Jonathan Lipps and Perfecto as we take you through the latest Appium tips and tricks. Find out what’s new with Appium and learn advanced test automation best practices, including:
* Proper use of object identifiers
* Benefits of using deep links to avoid test flakiness
* Cross platform test automation best practices
* Leveraging Appium to test application upgrades
Does your functional automation really add value?Anand Bagmar
We all know that automation is one of the key enablers for those on the CI-CD journey.
Most teams are:
• implementing automation
• talking about its benefits
• up-skilling themselves
• talking about tooling
• etc.
In my experience, unfortunately most of the functional automation that is built is:
• not optimal
• not fit-for-purpose
• does not run fast enough
• gives inconsistent feedback, hence unreliable
Hence, for the amount of effort invested in implementing automation, are you really getting the value from this activity?
In this talk, we will discuss these challenges and why it would lead to poor ROI of automation. More importantly, we will discuss the following techniques to make automation valuable:
• know the objective for the automation framework
• establish criteria for tests to be automated
• design your framework with proper abstraction layers
• develop using appropriate design patterns
Visual Validation - The missing tip of the automation pyramid @AgileIndia2020Anand Bagmar
https://confengine.com/agile-india-2020/proposal/11065/visual-validation-the-missing-tip-of-the-automation-pyramid
The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which simulate end-user behavior and interactions with the product-under test.
While Automation helps validate functionality of your product, aspects of UX validations can only be seen and captured by the human eye and is hence mostly a manual activity. This is an area where AI & ML can truly help.
With everyone wanting to be Agile, make quick releases, the look & feel / UX validation, which is a slow, and error-prone activity, quickly becomes a huge bottleneck. In addition, with any UX related issues propping up cause huge brand-value and revenue loss, may lead to social-trolling and worse - dilute your user-base.
In this session, using numerous examples, we will explore:
Why Automated Visual Validation is essential to be part of your Test Strategy
Potential solutions / options for Automated Visual Testing, with pros & cons of each
How an AI-powered tool, Applitools Eyes, can solve this problem.
Slides from my talk on how to Eradicate Flaky Tests from AppiumConf 2021
https://confengine.com/conferences/appium-conf-2021/proposal/15581/eradicate-flaky-tests
Change Tyres In A Moving Car - Make Functional Test Automation Effective KeynoteAnand Bagmar
https://confengine.com/conferences/selenium-conf-2022/proposal/17141/changing-tyres-in-a-moving-car-making-functional-test-automation-effective
In my experience, I have seen teams struggle with more than one, and in many cases, all of the above statements.
On retrospection, I have realized, that most of these challenges are because of a combination of the following issues:
Lack of holistic vision, understanding, skills, and capabilities for taking on this seemingly easy activity of functional test automation
Lack of time for design, implementation, and maintenance of the automated test code
In this session, I will share, with examples, the features & capabilities that are not used right in Test Automation implementation resulting in you answering “NO” to the above statements. These are anti-patterns of functional automation implementation and have a negative impact on the quality of feedback from your automated tests.
More importantly, I will share approaches and solutions of how you can avoid these anti-patterns and evolve to answer “YES” to each of the above statements.
It is easy to measure code coverage when running unit tests.
However, very frequently the following questions come up:
- How can we measure API test coverage and e2e / UI test coverage?
- Does e2e / UI test coverage add value?
- If not, what other data can we look at to know if the e2e tests have good coverage?
This session is about understanding the above questions, and finding solutions for the same.
Everyone wants to make quick releases, but the look-and-feel UX validation is a manual, slow, and error-prone activity. Any UX-related issues propping up cause huge brand-value and revenue loss, may lead to social-trolling, and, even worse, dilute your user base. This is an area where AI & ML can help. In this hands-on workshop, using examples, we will explore: the importance of automated visual validation how an AI-powered tool, Applitools Visual AI, can solve this problem. Integrate Applitools Visual AI in your Selenium-Java automation and learn by practice: The different AI algorithms various Applitools capabilities and features scale your automation using the Applitools Ultrafast Grid.
Unlocking the Power of ChatGPT and AI in Testing - NextSteps, presented by Ap...Applitools
Gain insights into the practical applications of ChatGPT, Bard, and other AI-based technological advancements, including GitHub CoPilot and Applitools Self-Healing Cloud, in this session with Anand Bagmar. Through specific use cases, Anand demonstrates how to enhance test automation processes—making them faster, more stable, and easier to implement.
Session recording and more info at applitools.com
Uncover how these tools can revolutionize your testing strategies and stay ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving world of test automation.
Build the Right Regression Suite with Behavior-Driven TestingTechWell
Manual functional testing is a slow, tedious, and error prone process. As we continue to incrementally build software, the corresponding regression test suite continues to grow. Rarely is time allotted to consolidate and keep these test cases in sync with the product under development. If these test cases are used as the basis for automation, the resulting suite is composed of very granular tests that are often quite brittle in nature. Using a case study, Anand Bagmar describes how behavior-driven testing (BDT) can be applied to identify the right type of test cases for manual and automated regression testing. Learn how the BDT technique can be applied in your context and domain, regardless of the tools and technologies used in your project and organization.
Scaffolding a legacy app with BDD scenarios using SpecFlow/Cucumber (BDD Lond...Gáspár Nagy
Do you remember your childhood when your mom or an older story teller pronounced the most interesting words in the world? “Once upon a time…” Let me be now your story teller, listen to my story about a legacy app, a painful problem, the search for the solution and the lucky outcome. No, no, this is not the story about a new green field project where everything is so clear. However, even in this story there is a master builder, who shows the developers how to scaffold the legacy app with BDD scenarios using SpecFlow or Cucumber and everything will be all right in the end. Let me tell you about different strategies, collaboration and testing patterns that can be followed in such a renovation-like situation. So, are you ready?... “Once upon a time there was a company where…” To be continued at my session
Udvid din test portefølje med coded ui test og cloud load testPeter Lindberg
Slides fra min session på Campus Days 2014 i København.
Vi tager et kig på at automatisere tests med Coded UI tests, og blandt andet udnytte de tests som testerne allerede har lavet og optaget i Microsoft Test Manager, og sætte strøm til dem så de f.eks. kan afvikles automatisk i dine builds.
Vi kigger også nærmere på Load Test, der med introduktionen af Visual Studio Online er blevet lidt mere tilgængeligt, med test tid tilgængelig som en del af dit MSDN abonnement, som man kan benytte sig af til at få trykprøvet sine applikationer uden at skulle bekymre sig om infrastruktur.
Slides from my 4-hour workshop on Client-Side Performance Testing conducted at Phoenix, AZ in STPCon 2017 (March).
Workshop Takeaways:
Understand difference between is Performance Testing and Performance Engineering.
Hand’s on experience of some open-source tools to monitor, measure and automate Client-side Performance Testing.
Examples / code walk-through of some ways to automate Client-side Performance Testing.
See blog for more details - https://essenceoftesting.blogspot.com/2017/03/workshop-client-side-performance.html
Visual Validation - The Missing Tip of the Automation PyramidAnand Bagmar
The Test Automation Pyramid is not a new concept. The top of the pyramid is our UI / end-2-end functional tests - which should cover the breadth of the product.
What the functional tests cannot capture though, is the aspects of UX validations that can only be seen and in some cases, captured by the human eye. This is where the new buzzwords of AI & ML can truly help.
In this session, we will explore why Visual Validation is an important cog in the wheel of Test Automation and also different tools and techniques that can help achieve this. We will also see a demo of Applitools Eyes - and how it can be a good option to close this gap in automation!
Slides from the workshop I conducted on "Client-side Performance Testing".
Abstract of the workshop:
In this workshop, we will see the different dimensions of Performance Testing and Performance Engineering, and focus on Client-side Performance Testing.
Before we get to doing some Client-side Performance Testing activities, we will first understand how to look at client-side performance, and putting that in the context of the product under test. We will see, using a case study, the impact of caching on performance, the good & the bad! We will then experiment with some tools like WebPageTest and Page Speed to understand how to measure client-side performance.
Lastly - just understanding the performance of the product is not sufficient. We will look at how to automate the testing for this activity - using WebPageTest (private instance setup), and experiment with yslow - as a low-cost, programatic alternative to WebPageTest.