Have you ever heard of Selenium IDE before? Unlike the powerful Selenium framework itself, there exists a integrated development environment in the form of a Firefox plugin. It’s the ultimate productivity tool for web scrapping since you don’t need to code a single line; and if you want to, they provide a domain-specific language Selenese to export tests in the following languages: C#, Groovy, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby and Scala. Sadly it’s depreciated since 2006 and no longer is supported above Firefox 54.! Read more about it’s history on Wikipedia:

Mobile automation poses different types of challenges in comparison to the automation of Web browsers. New tool sets are making it easier and easier to engage in genuine agile development on Mobile. In particular, true test-driven development—which was formerly a hard, upstream slog on Mobile—is becoming increasingly attainable. 2 years back, At Naukri we used to test the Mobile Applications manually. With the increase in technology and functionality in mobile apps we were facing many challenges while doing manual testing like: There is huge fragmentation of both devices and mobile operating system versions, which makes it

At XING we are around 30 Android developers that are contributing to the same app. In the past six months, we invested a lot of time in making our espresso tests execution on our Jenkins CI server way more stable. In this article, I would like to share our story of how we got to stable espresso tests. We rely heavily on running all of our unit tests and UI tests on each pull request to ensure that they are constantly green and no tests are broken. While running unit tests from a terminal is

Android Espresso – 4 tools you should be using Introduction If you ever tried automating user interface tests for Android applications, you know it can be challenging. But we should remember that writing good and effective tests should be fun at the same time! Knowing the right tools can save you a lot of time and effort so I have prepared the list of my favorites. Android Espresso is my first choice when it comes to testing framework. It is easy to set up, fast, reliable and has a fluent API. On the other hand,