Accessibility Testing: Striking the Right Balance Between Automation and Manual Efforts
Wondering what types of accessibility tests you should and shouldn't automate? Irfan Mujagić put together a comprehensive guide.
And if you're curious about how to do it on mobile, Sahil Sharma shows how to Set Up Automated Accessibility Audits in Your iOS App CI/CD Pipeline.
Gradle Managed Devices: The Future of Android Testing
Andres Sandoval gives an overview of a new gradle plugin for managing test devices on Android. Here's the second part about connecting it to Firebase TestLab.
Speaking of mobile testing, Lu wrote a good guide to Automated UI Testing on iOS using various tools.
Note: If you can't access the full article, open it in a private tab or another browser.
UITests and accessibility tests on iOS using 0rmAccessibilityAudit
Apple has recently announced a new feature that lets you run accessibility audits on iOS mobile apps. Here's Victor Catão telling us more about that from a code perspective.
Additionally, Mesut Beysülen wrote a handy guide to Running XCUITest in parallel with mock server.
Welcome to the 222nd issue!
Today, I'd like to share with you this — Mobile App Testing Strategy at Zalando.
It's a great example of setting a test strategy by Hakkim Alavudeen, Head of Engineering at Zalando.
I especially liked the pragmatic approach with explicitly posed questions they wanted to answer, followed by a weighted analysis.
That's definitely a good inspiration.
Happy testing! 🙂
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Welcome to the 110th issue!
Today, I want to share with you the Statcounter.
It's a super handy online tool that can help you get a full overview of the market share for browsers, operating systems, mobile brands, and much more.
Best yet, you can filter it by country, region, platform and year.
It's really the place to go if you need to make data-driven decisions about developing and testing your products.
Happy testing!
Welcome to the 176th issue!
Big news came out this week.
After years of development in beta, Appium 2.0 has officially been released!
This popular tool for testing mobile, desktop and TV apps brings some exciting new features.
You can read all about it in the migration guide.
Congrats to Jonathan Lipps and the team behind this amazing open-source project.
I can tell you one thing — it was well worth the wait.
So, happy testing! 🙂
Hello and welcome to the 42nd issue!
Thank you all for sending over the great resources on software testing.
I found some very interesting ones and I'll be introducing them to you over the next few weeks.
The first shout-out goes to Maciej Gąsiorowski for creating these two amazing repositories with hundreds of links to handy tools, articles, best practices and much more on the following topics:
And if you know more resources like this, you can always let me know here.
Welcome to the 212th issue!
Are you concerned about the progress of AI impacting your job?
Fear not, here are some recent optimistic views from the community:
So the common belief is that the tester's role is becoming even more important.
And, if anything, AI will help us test more effectively.
For example, AI is getting fascinating capabilities in navigating mobile apps using vision — you can read more about it in the Tools section below.
Happy testing! 🙂
