Asserting text — without hardcoding strings in android through appium, wd

A frequent challenge in automation is to create assertions that are flexible and maintainable. For instance, in the following screen if I want to assert that the text of the ‘Send’ button in fact ‘Send’

UI test automation skill ladder

Over the years I have seen many testers, automation engineers, SDETs’, QA engineers and some more variations in their title that usually have ‘Test Automation’ as a core skill set. I witnessed projects of varying complexity in mobile and web projects that have…

When do you find your most important bugs? My top 5 below

We’ve been enumerating, analyzing and doing a retrospective of all the tools and practices that we do in our Mobile team and in the process, one of the major artifacts of the project turned out to be bugs.

Rescue time for focus

As a software professional we spend most of the time before a computer and as a mobile tester I am inundated with tens of distraction inducing devices — phones, computers, tablets. It is easy to fall into the seduction of these devices and loose focus on work that matters. 
Some of the…

Automation techniques — (level-1) verifications

GUI testing is flaky, difficult to maintain, slow to run but often very necessary. Especially in context of mobile app automation, where a large part of testing has to be done through GUI.

A day at work

Yesterday was one of those workdays where you get a lot done in diverse platforms, it went something like this

• 10AM add a test case to JS based test automation code
• 12PM Review a node based mocking tool
• 2PM code review swift…