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Dev and QA consistently face this issue of not being on the same page, or missing some details in the communication process of bug ticket… Read More »What details should you put in your Mobile QA JIRA ticket

As a beginner QA engineer it’s easy to jump straight on code while writing a test case, or testing a functionality. However it’s much more… Read More »How to create test plan before writing an automated test case for Appium

If you are working with Appium you would have already noticed that you need to perform some actions repeatedly. It makes sense to abstract out… Read More »How to organise Appium UI Actions into reusable Python utility

This is a quick post to show how to select an item from an android dropdown/spinner in Appium-Python. I have a dropdown with a given… Read More »How to select an item from dropdown/spinner in Appium-Python (Android)

Android sdk comes with few very useful tools. One of them is uiautomatorviewer that can be used to inspect your android app and to find… Read More »How to inspect android app and get id of elements with uiautomatorviewer

This Appium error is sometimes misleading. Here is how I fixed this error. Check if Path variables are present Check if the $ANDROID_HOME and$ JAVA_HOME… Read More »Appium Error : WebDriverException: Message: An unknown server-side error occurred while processing the command. Original error: Could not find adb Please set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable with the Android SDK root directory path

This is a small post that provides you the information on installing Appium on Ubuntu. Steps to install Appium Install dependencies required by Appium Run… Read More »How to install Appium in Ubuntu

Why Sublime? Sublime is a light weight IDE and is very useful for general text editing purpose and programming. Sublime can be very useful if… Read More »How to install Sublime in Ubuntu