Guide for continuous deployment of Android builds with appium, saucelabs, jenkins and javascript

Running appium mobile UI tests as part of your build pipeline has always been a pipe dream of mine.. until this week. With the help of almighty google, my android…

How to conduct a successful Bug bash

What is a bug bash?

A focussed, time bound event, in which testers, developers and other employees from various specialities are solicited to find bugs in a product. Core product team members facilitate and triage the bugs.

Chrome mobile emulation mode vs Safari 9.0 Responsive design mode

I already covered that Apple has announced announced several testing tools at WWDC 2015 but responsive design mode didn’t get any mention in it.

Debugging and solving a flaky test with appium, ruby and sauce labs.

In this post, I’d like to go through my thought process on solving a flaky test that has been bugging me for a while. I think I may have solved it for now but my aim of this post is go through the process step by…

Why do native apps crash?

If you have been using smartphones and apps, you must have experienced an app suddenly closes. You didn’t want it to close but the it closed all of a sudden — this is called a crash. This can happen to both system installed apps like Mail, Maps, Gmail etc to developer apps installed…

Shortening the test feedback loop with Jenkins, Saucelabs, Nightwatch.js

The chief purpose of test automation in an agile setting is to reduce the time taken for regression testing. The tests should provide a feedback to the devs and other stakeholders during various phases of…