Have you ever had trouble testing the audio functionality of your mobile application? Capturing, injecting, and comparing audio has historically been a tricky area in mobile automation testing. Even trying to validate something as simple as checking if the correct audio plays during a prescribed action can be a daunting...
Writing an Appium test in Kotlin
Kotlin is a modern programming language that focuses on conciseness, clarity, and code safety. Google officially adopted Kotlin by adding support into Android Studio in 2017 and since then has announced it as the preferred language for Android developers at Google I/O 2019. Perhaps your Android app team has incrementally added...
How to Automate the Zoom Video Meetings App
[This post originally appeared on appiumpro.com] Last week I tried something new: Automation Happy Hour. In this live stream event, I downloaded the Zoom app for Android and tried to build a simple testsuite for it in about an hour. I think this type of real-world "case study" is really interesting. My...
Appium Workshop: From Intermediate to Advanced in Two Days
The HeadSpin Team attends an Appium workshop that has an incredible impact on their skills.
Tips for Speeding Up Your Remote Appium Sessions
I am the founder of this consulting firm called CloudGrey, where we focus on mobile automation and helping clients get their mobile automation strategy going and whether they should use Appium or something else, training teams, stuff like that. I also work with the Appium open source project and have...
Appium Tools for Rapid Development of Functional & Performance Tests
A Brief Overview of Functional and Performance Testing So I just want to give a little bit of a refresher on the types of testing that we're considering today. First of all we have functional testing, which I'm sure many of you are quite familiar with already. But if you...
First Look at Appium 2.0 and New Drivers
Good morning everyone, or good afternoon, or evening, or midnight, depending on where you might be in the world. I'm really excited to be here in what is my morning, talking about Appium drivers and Appium 2.0. So, Jason already gave a very complete introduction for me, so I'll just...
Batching Appium Commands Using Execute Driver Script to Speed Up Tests
Original post from AppiumPro Both Appium and Selenium are based on a client/server architecture, where the test commands are triggered by a client that could be very far away from the server which actually performs the commands. The advantages of this client/server architecture are very important, allowing Appium tests to...
Testing tvOS in Appium for Apple TV 1080 and 4K
Apple TV 4K is currently only supported by HeadSpin and not Appium. This is because Apple TV 4K requires network connectivity and not USB.
Testing React Native Apps with Appium
Learn about the pros & cons of using React Native for app development, how to test React Native app Appium, and a comparison between Appium and other apps