by admin | Jul 1, 2019 | Mobile App Testing, Fixed, Blog |
Mobile app testing is a comparatively more complicated process than desktop or web app testing given the numerous challenges faced by mobile app testers. Some of these challenges include device variations, device fragmentation, OS fragmentation, rapid release schedules, several testing tools, unexpected customer app use cases, network compatibility, battery/power consumption, and offline functioning, among others.
In addition to these challenges, there are some added challenges that mobile app testers have and could possibly encounter in 2019. The top 7 additional mobile testing challenges in 2019 are listed below:
Tackling App Performance Issues
It is pertinent in present times that mobile app testing must focus on the delivery of quality apps to users. If there are performance issues affecting the user experience with an app, mobile device users are likely to opt for a competing app. Therefore, it is a challenge for testers to enhance the user experience by tackling app performance issues such as long time to load and run an app, inconsistent performance, poor responsiveness, and incompatibility with different networks or platforms.
Greater Need for Shift Left Testing
To ensure comprehensive testing of a mobile app, testing companies need to incorporate Shift Left Testing (test early and test often approach) in their mobile testing strategy. The Shift Left Testing process enables the mobile app testers to test an app in the early stages of its development rather than testing it only before release. The use of Shift Left Testing mechanism is a challenge because it requires the deft use of automated testing tools so that the testing of an app can be performed alongside its development.
Continuous Mobile Testing Requirements
The DevOps and Agile scenarios are paving the way for faster development of apps and frequent addition of new features to existing apps. Continuous Mobile Testing requirements pose a challenge even for a top mobile testing company because of the emphasis on continuous mobile testing skills of the testers. It is imperative for mobile app testers to be experts at Agile testing in order to make continuous testing a part of the continuous integration process for updating an app with new features and functionalities.
Focus on Social Media Testing
The increasing focus on social media is emerging as another big challenge for mobile app testers in the current year – 2019. It is crucial for testers to acquire social media testing skills because the present-day mobile app users trust social media reviews more than any other data. Hence, with all mobile apps now necessitating interface with the social media, testers should be proficient in running an app by different social media platforms when they test the app at various development stages.
Global Testing of Apps
In present times, almost all mobile apps, irrespective of the operating system and functionality, are developed for mobile phone users across the globe. Given this reality, it is a challenging task for the testers at a mobile app development company to test an app globally, on a range of networks, from one location. To overcome the challenge of global testing, mobile app companies generally outsource the testing tasks, but the results of the testing may sometimes not be desirable from the perspective of global usage.
Lack of Suitable Testing Tools
Mobile app development companies often lack the right testing tools that can enable their testers to test their app for use on smart devices. Due to the unavailability of suitable testing tools, testers are not able to get adequate test coverage while testing an app on a variety of mobile devices. Without the knowledge and use of proper testing tools, testers fail to capitalize on automated testing because of which there are delays in testing and, eventually, also in the release of the app to the market.
Coping Up With App Marketing Schedules
The rise of app store and in-app advertising has made it difficult for mobile app testers to cope up with the marketing schedules of the app marketers. With market app advertising on the increase, testers at most of the leading mobile testing companies have limited time to test the app exhaustively. Since a shorter testing time is becoming a challenge in mobile app testing, it is vital for mobile app companies to put a testing plan in place when they start the development of an app.
In Conclusion:
The astounding pace of mobile app development has made mobile app testing a very critical process since the users of smartphones demand well-designed, responsive, engaging, and feature-rich mobile apps. To overcome the challenges for mobile testing in 2019, mobile app testers should build top-notch app testing strategies based on a broad understanding of the different areas of mobile testing like technology, devices, usability, and user experience. Connect with us – we keep abreast with all the latest technologies, tools, and methodologies to glide past these challenges.
by admin | Jun 29, 2019 | Software Testing, Fixed, Blog |
Software testing is an evolving field in the domain of software development. Hence, firms that undertake Test Automation activities are required to find and retain human talent that will participate in such ventures. Key human attributes such as curiosity, passion, and tenacity are the hallmarks of an exceptional QA Testing engineer. These aspects of the human mind allow a tester to rise to the challenges of testing a modern software package for glitches and inconsistencies. These attributes also empower QA Testing firms to provide high-level services to software developers, thereby helping create outstanding instances of modern software applications and packages.
Understanding is Key
Recruiters and hiring agents must question a potential recruit to probe his or her understanding of the fundamentals of software testing. Such questions could range from QA Testing methods; the experience of the candidate with regard to working on software development projects; assessing the use of a certain techniques while implementing Test Automation; the potential recruit’s ability to work as a member of a team of testers, and more.
Technical Skills
Recruiters must seek to probe the technical skills of candidates who apply for positions in QA Automation. In line with this, a candidate must undergo examinations with regard to their ability to: design a test schedule; his or her ability to operate, design, and build tools for QA Testing; the ability of the candidate to think critically regarding testing parameters and assessing the outcomes of Test Automation; his or her level of domain knowledge in software development and testing frameworks, and several other realms. These technical skills are necessary for testers to discharge their job responsibilities. Hence, such queries must form the basis of recruiting exceptional QA testing personnel.
Outreach is Critical
Exceptional QA testers can be sought from multiple locations. Recruiters must scope these locations to unearth serious talent in the domain of QA Testing activities.
For instance, recruiters can visit testing conferences where test professionals congregate to learn and explore the latest issues and topics in the software testing domain; informal meet-ups organized by the software testing community provide another location for productive hiring practices; specialized forums on the World Wide Web offer yet another avenue for hiring software testers in modern times. Companies can easily find QA Automation professionals in these venues and invite them to join the recruitment process.
Setting Bait
Software test professionals are known to relish challenges that test their technical ability to deal with testing problems. An intelligent recruiter may announce a Test Automation challenge as part of efforts to attract the best test professionals in a certain region. Such a challenge, once formulated, can be broadcast over the Internet through various forums to gain the attention of top quality testers. The resulting rush of test professionals could help the recruiter to find and hire perfect candidates who conform to recruitment requirements.
Specific Considerations
QA Testing personnel who can complete a given set of tests on time are ideally positioned for further consideration in the hiring cycle. Candidates who emerge with flying colors in terms of their ability to communicate, high levels of specific domain knowledge, awareness of QA Automation cycles and conditions should rank high in the priority list of the recruiter.
Such candidates are often the best personnel who can solve specific testing challenges, cope with a high-pressure work environment, deal with changes in client requirements, discharge their duties as a member of a Test Automation team, and more. These personnel also tend to score the maximum marks in test assessments.
Work Day
The best Test Automation professionals work as part of a team of expert testers. Bearing this in mind, recruiters should offer potential candidates an opportunity to work with a Test Automation team. This technique hinges on observation of the performance of each candidate and feedback from members of said team. The technique also tests each candidate for their actual skills in terms of performing a variety of technical tasks over half a business day. The outcomes of such exercises can help recruiters find the best Test Automation professionals in modern times.
In Conclusion
These techniques of modern recruitment should empower recruiters to locate and hire the best software testing professionals for permanent employment. Each recruiter may bring specific requirements to the proverbial table and every employer may prize different abilities in such personnel. A combination of the techniques detailed above should assist most recruiters hire the best talent in line with available requirements. We not only have a team of expert testers, but are also adept in providing recruiting support for our clients – connect with us to gain all these advantages.
by admin | Jul 14, 2019 | Mobile App Testing, Fixed, Blog |
Choosing a right cloud testing tool is a cumbersome job given the option of multiple tools in market. However, an unbiased review from a QA company/testing experts will help the users to choose the apt tool. This week, we would like to review Lambdatest. Let’s go through all the features one by one.
Real Time Testing
Most of our ELearning Course testing projects, we use cloud test tools to test the courses on multi OS/platforms. For example: If a tester wants to test an application on Windows 10 and macOS, then the tester needn’t use two physical desktops (one for Windows and another for macOS). Just open two cloud real time testing instances and perform the testing. This eases and speeds up your testing on multi OS and browsers.
LambdaTest provides cross browser testing support on real mobile devices and Desktops and it has a comprehensive list of mobile devices. For desktops, we can see Windows and mac OS options. However, Linux is missing in the supported platforms. We would strongly recommend LambdaTest if you are testing web applications on multi browsers and mobile devices.
Suggestion to LambdaTest- Please add Real Time testing for Native Mobile Apps as well.
In LambdaTest Real Time Testing session, you can mark bug by entering comments & drawing on a screenshot, change screen resolution in the middle of your testing session. Screen video recording is also possible.
Visual UI Testing
LambdaTest has three features for Visual UI testing. Screenshot, Responsive, and Smart Testing.
Screenshot This is a notable feature in LambdaTest. You can take screenshots for a given URL on 25 mobile/desktop browsers in one go. Once the screenshots are ready, the tester can validate them one by one in slider view.
Responsive Another important feature. You can perform responsive mobile app testing on multiple devices simultaneously.
Smart Testing Smart Testing is a feature to compare screenshots with baseline images.
Automation Testing
You can send Selenium browser commands using LambdaTest’s Remote URL and desired capabilities as shown below.
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("build", "your build name");
capabilities.setCapability("name", "your test name");
capabilities.setCapability("platform", "Windows 10");
capabilities.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");
capabilities.setCapability("version","76.0");
capabilities.setCapability("visual",true);
LambdaTest supports Java, JavaScript, Python, C#, Ruby, and PHP to run your automation scripts on 2000+ different browsers
Integration with other tools
You can integrate LambdaTest with Jira, Slack, Bitbucket, Mantis, Azure DevOps, Clubhouse, Asana, Paymo, Monday, Trello, Teamwork, Microsoft Teams, Github, Hive, Gitlab, and Bugherd.
Conclusion
LambdaTest is a useful cloud testing tool which eases responsive multi browser testing. Native mobile app testing support is missing. We hope that it will be implemented in the near future.
by admin | Jul 16, 2019 | Codoid Updates, Fixed, Blog |
Incorporated in 2012, Codoid Software Testing Company has its niche in Software Testing. They are one of the most renowned QA companies looking into global projects from their headquarters in Chennai. They are an independent software testing firm and henceforth their contribution to this domain in unsurpassable. They aim at adding value to the businesses of their clients and have proven this by getting them huge ROI.
Codoid provides a huge range of services that include-
1. Software Automation Testing Selenium and Appium
2. Mobile Apps Testing
3. Web Services Testing
4. Test Automation Framework Development
5. Game Testing
6. Big data & ETL Testing
7. Performance Testing using JMeter & Gatling
8. ELearning Testing
9. Regression Testing
About GoodFirms’ Research MethodologyThe B2B research and review firm specializes in ranking the listed companies on its prestigious platform with the help of a research process. This research process comprises three crucial parameters:
1. Quality
2. Reliability
3. Ability
These parameters help in analyzing the company’s performance with respect to the clients’ reviews, quality of service, punctuality and how they adhere to the needs of their customers. Also, these rankings help the companies to allure more clients to opt for their assistance with respect to their service performance in the evaluation process. Hence, such one of kind research creates a link between service providers and their clients helping the clients to find responsible and agile industry leaders.
Analysis of the core service offered by Codoid Software Testing Company as per GoodFirms’ Research and Review ProcessResearchers at GoodFirms in awe of the excellent software testing services provided by Codoid are soon expecting to see the firm among the top software testing companies in USA. With an in-house team of software testing experts, who have a huge experience and are experts in their fields, the firm has till date never compromised on their quality and are responsible in delivering their services timely.
Codoid also provides QA outsourcing services to its clients. This model of outsourcing makes them flexible for various costing models and even increases the scalability of their services. Their services under QA includes automation testing, performance testing, agile testing, and mobile testing. Their vast experience in this domain helps them rectify errors and bugs rapidly fastening the processes of the businesses. Looking at this individuality of the firm and various other qualities, GoodFirms ranks the firm among the top QA testing companies.
In the field of Automation Testing Services too, Codoid renders upfront services to its clients. Their service framework is such that it encourages clients to opt for open source tools. This henceforth reduces the cost and gives more space in developing scripts for mobile and web. Day by day, project by project increasing quality of software that Codoid produces, encourage the researchers at GoodFirms to confide that the firm will soon be seen among the top automation testing companies on their platform at a global level.
About GoodFirmsWashington, D.C. based GoodFirms is a maverick B2B research and reviews firm that aligns its efforts in finding the top Testing and Software development companies delivering unparalleled services to its clients. GoodFirms’ extensive research process ranks the companies, boosts their online reputation and helps service seekers pick the right technology partner that meets their business needs.
About the Author
Anna Stark is presently working as a Content Writer with GoodFirms – Washington D.C. based B2B Research Company, which bridges the gap between service seekers and service providers. Anna’s current role lingers her to shape every company’s performance and key attributes into words. She firmly believes in the magic of words and equips new strategies that work, always in with ideas, something new to carve, and something original to decorate the firm’s identity.
by admin | Jul 27, 2019 | Regression Testing, Fixed, Blog |
Today we are going to take you through Huxley, an open source visual regression testing tool which was built by Pete Hunt at Instagram. If you would like to manage all your captured expected images inside your own repository instead of saving them in cloud and to explore free/opensource options for visual regression testing, then we would strongly recommend Huxley.
To start with we would like to answer the following question – Which is the appropriate time to go for Automated Visual Regression testing? Consider the following scenario, one of your automated tests is just filling values in few textboxes and clicking a button on a page. Once the execution is completed, the result will indicate whether the expected action is performed or not. However, it won’t report you the missing images and something doesn’t look right on the UI.
Our recommendation: Use static data to perform automated visual regression testing. So that you will not get screenshot mismatch errors due to test data change. Eventually, we are trying to avoid false positives.
Huxley uses Selenium WebDriver to launch an URL and records actions. To save an expected screenshot, you need to press enter on Huxley Terminal. The recorded steps and screenshots will be used to playback and compare the actual screenshots. Note: Huxley is no longer supported or updated by Facebook or Instagram. You can fork it to customize the project.
You can playback the recorded scripts and it will report the failures if there is any screenshot mismatch. By default, Huxley will overwrite the old screenshots with the new ones. Which means you don’t have to rewrite anything when your UI changes like you would with a traditional WebDriver test — Huxley will just take a new screenshot for you and when it’s checked in your test is updated!
We have already forked this project and making some improvements. We will publish a blog article soon with technical details & sample snippets.
by admin | Apr 28, 2019 | Selenium Testing, Fixed, Blog |
In Selenium 4.0, you can open new window & tab using “newWindow” command. Please note: Selenium 4.0 is yet to be released. However, you can try this feature using Firefox 66 & Selenium 4.0.0-alpha-1 versions.
Selenium 4.0 (Alpha) Maven Dependency
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>4.0.0-alpha-1</version>
</dependency>
Code
System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "drivers/geckodriver.exe");
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver();
driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.WINDOW);
driver.switchTo().newWindow(WindowType.TAB);
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