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Accessibility Testing at Scale Powered by Appium

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:05:57 +0000

To date, web applications have been the focus of digital accessibility tooling. Attention is now pivoting to mobile apps that are usually tested with Appium. So how do we test mobile apps for accessibility? Many organizations test their apps with assistive technologies. This is a manual effort, takes a lot of time and is often limited by physical device availability. A far better approach is to leverage automated accessibility testing on cloud-hosted devices. It is effective in the detection of issues across a wide spectrum of your end user communities. Video producer: https://appiumconf.com/

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Open Source Android Testing Tools

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 12:00:17 +0000

Android is the most widely adopted mobile OS with an estimated market share above 80% in 2014. You should naturally test all the apps developed for Android and a large number of open source testing tools and test automation frameworks have been developed to achieve this goal. This article presents a list of open source Android testing tools. For each tool you will get a small description of its features and pointers to additional resources that discusses the tool more in details. Feel free to suggest any additional open source Android software testing framework or resource that you think might be included in this article. Tools are listed by alphabetical order. As open source projects are sometimes lacking maintenanc, a list of open source Android testing tools projects that are not active is also included at the end of the article. The open source Android software testing tools mentioned in this article are: Android Test Kit, AndroidX Test Libraries, Appium, AssertJ Android, AutomationCore, Barista, calabash-android, Cortado, Detox, Fastbot-Android, Green Coffee, Macaca, Magneto, MATE, Mobly, Monkey, Robolectric, RoboSpock, Robotium, UIAutomator, Selendroid, Spoon, Test Butler Updates June 17 2025: added Maestro, mobileperf; updated Magneto April 11 2023: added AndroidX Test Libraries, Detox, Fastbot-Android September 30 2019: added AutomationCore, MATE, Spoon November 30 2017: updated Android Test Kit; removed AndroidJUnit4, NativeDriver; added Barista, Cortado, Green Coffee, Macaca, Mobly January 24 2017: removed MonkeyTalk (acquired by Oracle); added AssertJ Android, Magneto, Test Butler AndroidX Test Libraries The AndroidX Test Library provides an extensive framework [...]

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Enhancing Appium Tests Stability with the Power of Healenium

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:58:13 +0000

This is an introduction to Healenium, an open source tool with proven results to enhance the stability and maintainability of Appium tests. You will learn about its functionality, explore its integration with Appium, and demonstrate its practical application through a live code demo. Appium has been a cornerstone and remain to be a go-to-choice for mobile test automation. However, the challenges of test flakiness and code maintenance remain a significant issue. Healenium improves the stability of Selenium-based automated tests, as it replaces broken locator values with one that best matches and fixes tests in runtime. It minimizes maintenance time of test automation code related to updated web pages and non-functional fails. This video will provide a clear understanding of Healenium’s capabilities and a step-by-step approach of its practical implementation in a test automation strategy. Video producer: https://appiumconf.com/

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Choosing the Right Mobile Automation Framework

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 14:05:16 +0000

People who deal with the design of any mobile system sooner or later begin to ask the same questions. What specific test automation framework should I choose for mobile tests? Do I need to choose Espresso (for Android) or XCUI (for iOS), or should I consider a cross-platform tool (like the open source tool Appium)? What mobile software testing tools do other companies use? Which framework will fail less in the short term? Author: Nataliia Syvynska, TestMatick, https://testmatick.com/ The answer to all these questions cannot be formulated in one paragraph. The most effective way to find all the necessary explanations is to correctly divide the testing problem into several areas. Team Structuring The team structure in this context can be correlated with two types of work team building: Teams with mobile developers who are also responsible for the testing processes – creating unit tests, functional tests, integration tests, and UI. Project teams that have QA specialists whose main task is to check the quality of the application in terms of user interface, functionality, and overall performance. Let’s look at each group separately. So, teams of the first type, where software developers themselves create both the product and unit tests for it, usually use familiar tools. For example, it is convenient for any iOS developer to make software in Swift within the iOS ecosystem. Using a UI testing framework like XCUI fits perfectly into this list of working tools. An Android developer, in turn, will most likely prefer Kotlin-based Espresso tests. [...]

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Setting Your First Appium Tests Efficiently

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 16 Jan 2023 15:49:11 +0000

Getting started with Appium is still really hard. Where should you start when you want to take your first baby steps towards performing test automation with the Appium open source testing tool? This talk is for the beginners in automated testing. However, even if you are an intermediate Appium user, a refresher does not really hurt, does it? This tutorial will help you get setup quickly and efficiently and give you the quick launchpad to get your hands dirty with Appium on both Android and iOS The presentation covers mind map of the different areas/components to consider when first learning and getting started with Appium. Furthermore, you will learn all the steps that you need to follow to set up Appium (Current and 2.0 version) efficiently on your machine and run your first Hello world like Appium test on android and iOS. Video producer: https://appiumconf.com/

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Testing Mobile Apps With Selenium Grid 4 and Appium Together

Software Testing Magazine — Mon, 31 Jan 2022 17:01:42 +0000

Selenium 4 brings a brand-new Grid, full of features and great things! Selenium Grid 4 has a new flexible architecture, allowing you to run it in a fully distributed mode, in the traditional Hub/Node mode, or in the simple Standalone more. It has built in observability and GraphQL endpoints, and even a nice UI. Selenium Grid allows the execution of WebDriver scripts on remote machines (virtual or real) by routing commands sent by the client to remote browser instances. It aims to provide an easy way to run tests in parallel on multiple machines. Selenium Grid allows you to run tests in parallel on multiple machines, and to manage different browser versions and browser configurations centrally (instead of in each individual test). This presentation demonstrates how Appium can be used with Selenium Grid 4 to scale up your mobile testing. More in detail, it will: – Give an overview of how Grid 4 works – Show how to configure Grid 4 to make it work with Appium – Share tips to migrate from Selenium Grid 3 to Grid 4 Video producer: https://appiumconf.com/

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How to Build a Scalable Mobile Lab for Test Automation

Software Testing Magazine — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 17:20:07 +0000

It is becoming more and more challenging to test mobile apps on different devices, with different screen sizes, running different operating systems. During the development of a mobile app, we can easily verify and test the app on a mobile simulator or emulator. However, testing mobile apps only with a simulator or an emulator is not enough, you need to make sure that your mobile app works on devices that your users carry with them in their pocket. Creating an in-house Automation Mobile Lab will be a good decision if you are looking to do automated mobile testing, for example with open source testing tools like Selenium and Appium. In 2019, the presenter’s organization started its journey of creating a scalable automation mobile device lab which allows running more than 2000 Appium tests on a daily basis. During this talk, he shares the experience that he gained during this long journey of creating our Scalable Automation Device Lab and the solution that allows to easily integrate it with CI tools. Video producer: https://hstqb.org/

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Reducing Appium Tests Execution Time

Software Testing Magazine — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:20:01 +0000

This talk shares the mistakes made in the initial software testing phase while creating automated tests for mobile apps using Appium, the reasons behind those mistakes, and the solutions which helped to reduce Appium tests execution time by 50%. Video producer: https://appiumconf.com/

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