AltWalker 0.4.0: Support for Python 3.12, new fixtures, and LiveViewer release
Explore the latest features and enhancements introduced in AltWalker 0.4.0, with support for Python 3.12, new fixtures, and the LiveViewer release.
Tag: test automation
AltWalker Model Visualizer for VS Code
We’re excited to announce that we recently added a Visual Studio Code extension to AltWalker. Through this extension, we want to help users to both edit and visualize JSON models within the VS Code. How it can help you AltWalker Model Visualizer is an open-source extension that comes to help everyone who writes and executes… read more
State Transition Testing – Automated Tests for Authentication Flows
In this article, we present an approach of testing the authentication flow of an application with the State Transition Testing technique. We use AltWalker, GraphWalker and Python to write and execute tests automatically.
Trying out XCode 7 Beta – Code Coverage and XCTest UI Testing
After watching the WWDC 2015 presentation of the new testing tools that will be available in XCode 7, which promises UI testing and code coverage right inside XCode, I decided to give it a try myself. This blog post is a summary of my experience.
Altom at Mobile World Congress 2015
We are happy to announce that part of our team will be heading off to Barcelona at the beginning of March to participate in Mobile World Congress.
CITCON 2014 – How I learned a lot this year
I learned a lot of things this Citcon. For those who haven’t got the chance to be part of a Continuous Integration and Testing Conference, below’s a diagram illustrating how it works.
Writing tests with BDD
1. The four Ws of BDD
1.1. What ?
BDD (Behaviour-Driven Development) is a concept in which acceptance tests are written as examples that anyone on the team can understand. The process of writing those examples is a collaborative effort of the developers, testers, and the business owner (“los tres amigos”). They decide together if the thing they set out to be built is the right one, before starting implementing it. In doing so, a deliberate effort to develop a shared, ubiquitous language (used and understood by everyone involved in the project) for talking about the system is created.
BDD scenarios are built around…
How to use an iPhone packaging box to make an iPhone testing sled
While testing an iPhone application that is part of a bigger solution developed by teams in different locations, I came across a few issues that made me look into some of the available options for recording the application in use on a real iPhone and I decided to try to build my own testing sled using parts I already had around the office. It turned out that the original iPhone packaging had everything I needed.
Selenium, XPath and Internet Explorer – Painfully Slow?
I’ve been using RobotFramework with its Selenium Library for web automation for quite a while now and have always had the problem of getting any scripts that use XPath run on Internet Explorer.
For some web applications, if they’re not too complex and don’t use a lot of Ajax, you might be able to run scripts that use XPath on Internet Explorer and actually have them finish in this lifetime. But most of the time, they won’t.
So I googled it. I found out that a lot of other people have googled it and a lot of them have complained on different forums. I’ve also found out that Selenium uses “AJAXSLT” as its default XPath library, which has a lot of performance issues on IE, and that the trick is to change this to the much faster javascript-xpath library.
However …
Setting up your environment for Flash/Flex Automation
Before going into details about some of the tools mentioned in the previous post, we thought it would be a good idea to start with what you need to do to get your environment ready for Flex/Flash automation. There’s a lot of information out there but there isn’t a place that walks you through the entire process – so we decided to write everything down and try to make it easier for other users.
Here is what you need to get started: …