Many articles talk about giving timely and specific feedback to others by using recent examples and conveying actionable points. It is highlighted often that feedback is a gift. However, a thing that is talked about less often is understanding whethe...
I once worked with a team that was building a video streaming app for users. The app followed a freemium business model where some video content was available to the users at no charge while other premium content was available to users after purchasi...
Sometimes, it could be useful to attach a debugger and check details during the test run. This post explains how to debug an e2e test scenario using VSCode. Steps Create .vscode/launch.json file at the root level of the project: Add arguments in the...
Now that we have two tests, we can start thinking about parallelizing the test run. WebdriverIO documentation lists some ideas for organizing the test suite to support parallel test execution. We can adjust the maxInstances property in the config fil...
Timothy is now looking to add a second test. The team members collaborate and decide that a test to check the details of the book would be a good test to add next. Book details page is currently implemented only on web. The Android app does not have ...
Now, we want to have the same search results related test on Android. We can start by creating page classes for Android specific Home and SearchResults page. Create Android specific page classes We can create a new folder pages/android and add the ho...
Now, we would like to run the same test on Android. Before we do that, let's look at some concepts of inheritance. Some concepts of Inheritance Consider that we have an abstract base class called HomePage which declares a method called searchBooks()....
Now let's start writing the test for the search results scenario that we have in our search.feature file. Feature: Search Books Scenario: A user should be able to search for books When the user searches for a book named "testing" Then the ...
Timothy and the product person on the team discuss what would be a good first test to automate. Considering what the users do on the app, they decide that checking the search results would be a good first test. So they decide that they want to check ...