Accessibility Testing: Creating a World Without Walls
With accessibility becoming more important, it's good to see guides such as this one by Mariia Furta describing the solutions we can use to test for it on mobile and desktop platforms.
Similarly, Andreea Draniceanu wrote a short overview of Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps.
How We Used Slack to Manage Testing Devices
Slack as a test supporting tool? Why not! Johanna South describes how it can be used to manage mobile devices for testing. This turns out to be more sophisticated than I thought!
Free Resources to Get Your Testing Practice On
Just two weeks ago I featured an article on the best websites for practising web automation and now Dennis Martinez lists out even more free places to practice testing of API, mobile, desktop and other areas.
Appium up and running (working example)
Sławomir Radzymiński shared a very practical guide on how to get started with the mobile testing framework, Appium, from downloading the library to implementing a test for iOS and Android.
If you're wondering how to effectively simulate testing web on various mobile screen sizes, this handy script for Cypress by Gustavo Miguens will make your life so much easier.
I've found some really interesting insights about testing on iOS in Dave Verwer's survey. For example, the results suggest that manual mobile testing is still more valued than automation!
Building an in-house Virtual Device Lab
If you're planning on building an in-house farm of virtual devices, you may want to learn from D K Prabhagharan who has recently built one on old MacBooks, using Selenium Grid and Jenkins to run Appium mobile tests.
Testing Android apps for flaky network situations with Flaker
One of the questions we should ask ourselves when testing mobile apps is how they perform in different network conditions. To simulate that, Rohan Maity shows how to use Flaker on Android.
E2E Testing Platform MagicPod Launches Global Version 1.0
MagicPod, a no-code test automation platform for web and mobile apps, is now available for global use. Automate your testing from $400 a month for unlimited test executions and unlimited users. Start your two-week free trial today!
E2E Testing Platform MagicPod Launches Global Version 1.0
MagicPod, a no-code test automation platform for web and mobile apps, is now available for global use. Automate your testing from $400 a month for unlimited test executions and unlimited users. Start your two-week free trial today!
