When it comes to mobile automation testing, there are many different choices for a tool. One popular option is Appium, an open-source framework which enables running automated tests on both Android and iOS devices. Although a powerful tool, Appium has some limitations related to interacting with some non-native application types, one example being Unity games. For this reason, we use… read more
We just released a new version of AltUnity Tester. Not the most exciting release as no new features were added, but we made some improvements by fixing several bugs. The most important fixes are: AltUnity no longer gets stuck when it tries to connect to the server.(Several people had this issue). The port which is… read more
AltUnity Inspector‘s main goal is to allow games to be explored and inspected outside of the Unity Editor, on the platform the game was built for. This approach is very similar to the Appium Inspector or to the DOM Inspector of a web browser. Why would you want to use it It could help you… read more
Running some automated tests for multiplayer games can sound like a real challenge for most of us. So we decided to write an article and present how to make the setup to run tests on two devices in parallel. You’ll see references to AltUnity tester in this article, as we use it in most of… read more
If you’re looking for a way to run automated tests on a unity game without using Appium, this article could help you. We present the necessary steps to run some Java tests on iOS. To get started, clone this example project from Gitlab, then follow the steps described below or check out the tutorial video…. read more
Another small release in which we fixed several bugs and added a new feature. Mismatch versions One of the biggest problems we encountered is that our users had problems if they used a different version of the server and the driver. We tried to make AltUnity Tester backward compatible meaning that if you update to… read more
AltUnityTester v.1.5.2 This is a small release in which we fixed several bugs caused by 1.5.0. We also made some improvements on the GUI and added a new command GetPNGScreenshot which will make a screenshot of the game in png format. For more details about all the changes check: https://gitlab.com/altom/altunity/altunitytester/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md AltUnityTester v.1.5.0 What’s new: Refactoring… read more
We are proud to announce that AltUnityTester Version 1.4.0 is out. This update does not include as many changes as 1.3.0 but it is the first update in which we try to expand AltUnityTester to a different type of devices other than Android and iOS. What’s new The biggest thing that happened in this update… read more
Today we just released an update for AltUnityTester (v. 1.2), a Unity3d plugin that enabled UI automation on games and apps developed in Unity. We described the reasoning behind AltUnityTester and our motivation in a longer blog post, here: https://altom.com/altunitytester-unity-using-appium The first version of the plugin relied heavily on Appium for all interaction with elements,… read more
AltUnityTester is an open source tool for Unity testing that lets you find and interact with elements from a Unity app/game from your Python Appium scripts. Before going into details about AltUnityTester, I want to tell you a bit about my own context and the struggles I’ve had in mobile games automation.