It’s hard to imagine effective mobile app testing without automation. Automated tests are an absolute must-have if you really want to benefit from frequent deployments and faster time to market. But before enjoying the benefits of automated mobile testing, ... more
What development styles do you utilize in your company – perhaps TDD, ATDD, or BDD? There’s a sheer endless variety of acronyms that involve different mobile development and testing practices. To shed some light on what’s what, we’ve discussed the most ... more
What development styles do you utilize in your company – perhaps TDD, ATDD, or BDD? There’s a sheer endless variety of acronyms that involve different mobile development and testing practices. To shed some light on what’s what, we’ve discussed the most ... more
The beauty of Appium for mobile testing is that its tests can be written in any programming language including Python, Ruby, Java, JavaScript and C#. While we have covered extensive Appium tutorials, in this blog post we’ll walk through how to automate ... more
Low-code software development can enable organizations to build quickly, and with limited resources. But what are the implications for software testing? What is Low-Code Software Development? Low-code software development could be compared to a car manufacturing ... more
It’s always been a daunting task to perform automated mobile testing for graphics-heavy apps, games or even any OS-level popups. That is the main reason that Appium image recognition is one of the most popular approaches for enabling automated testing ... more
Twenty years ago, one of the biggest software testing practices was all about testing websites or web apps for desktops and laptops. Today, the rise of the mobile ecosystem has gained the focus on app testing against mobile gadgets like smartphones, ... more
If you are trying to build a well-balanced test portfolio, UI testing has to be on your list. In fact, it represents the highest level of the famous test pyramid. But choosing the right tool for automating UI tests is hard because every solution on the ... more
If you start thinking about testing after completing your web application, you’re already too late. The decisions you make before and during development impact and shape testing more than one might think. And not involving testing from the start may ... more
Every now and then a new mobile test automation framework emerges, it quickly gains attention from mobile developers. This is happening right now with the Detox framework. A New Framework Detox is a JavaScript mobile testing framework that is built into ... more
Cześć! Last weekend we luckily had in Wrocław +12°C, but the temperature dropped drastically and we had the heaviest snow this winter. I thought “Well, that was like a beta version of incoming spring”. But don’t worry – we are not such cruel. We have ... more
Cześć! It’s been a while since the last Bitbar UI Update blog. For the first time in a few years, I got the flu and spread me completely on the shoulders. Fortunately, I’m on my feet and decided to write a different post today. I looked at our repository ... more
Cześć! When looking at the weather outside, you just want to say “winter is here” instead of “winter is coming”. But looking at the fact that I wanted to say “2.53 is here” … it might sound quite “cold”😅. And I assure you that the new version straight ... more
Cześć! Last time I have mentioned New Year resolutions. To be honest… I hate them. “I will do that”, “I will not do this” and “This Year I will…”. And in the end of year you feel like a person with empty promises. That is why we do not make such ones. ... more
Cześć! Ah! New Year! New hopes, resolutions and expectations. All gyms crammed and in the newspapers (as always at this time) a lot of articles like “how to lose weight in a week” and “the sculpture you always dreamed about.” Our first Cloud update, ... more
Cześć! Long time no see! I’m looking into posts history to check when last time I wrote UI Update… and wow! It was 30th June! But fear not – we are back on the tracks. So all aboard – I invite you to a (short) journey to review updates in version 2.48. ... more
Bitbar Monitoring provides a way to monitor mobile applications and APIs using real mobile devices in various location around the world with the option of using real carrier networks. The service supports running scripted mobile tests using eg. the Appium ... more
Cześć! Finally we have summer! In our team, it’s not only summer vacations, cold beer and barbecues, but also the time when the entire team devotes entirely to something else … but first things first – let me quickly tell you what’s new in UI. UI Update ... more
Hi! Although our R&D team in Poland had Majówka (Maj is May in Polish, and Majówka it’s first week of May when a lot of Poles takes a holidays and went for mountain trips or simply spent a lot of time on fresh air with family), we didn’t forget about ... more
Hello everyone! This morning we did a new release that provides tons of great and useful features for Bitbar Testing users. Most of the work that we did for this release were ‘under the hood’ and there were only a few visible (but still meaningful) UI ... more
Hello everyone! You may wonder if you slept over the version 2.36 update with our Bitbar Public Cloud. Not really. We actually skipped over the release of UI 2.36 intentionally. In this post I will walk you through of what’ll be available with the latest ... more
Hi! This my first post in Bitbar Blog so I’d like to start by introducing myself. My name is Marek Sierociński and I’m the frontend developer and UI/UX designer in Bitbar Testing UI team. After each release I will try to write a short post about the ... more
Hello! We’ve been seeing a lot of talk from users on Appium regarding the changes that have come out of the Appium 1.6.0 release. One of the biggest changes are the Appium inspector missing with Appium. We’ve done a lot of research and we wanted to provide ... more
Dear Testdroiders , As you may know, Appium 1.5.x is a complete rewrite of Appium from the scratch. It is a technical re-architecture that keeps the code organized at best and makes it easier for new contributors to improve the framework. To all Appium ... more
Dear Testdroiders , As you may know, Appium 1.5.x is a complete rewrite of Appium from the scratch. It is a technical re-architecture that keeps the code organized at best and makes it easier for new contributors to improve the framework. To all Appium ... more
Dear Testdroiders, Robot Framework is a generic keyword-driven test automation framework for acceptance level testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Surprisingly, many of you have been using this framework (in the past) for a basic acceptance ... more
Dear Testdroiders, Robot Framework is a generic keyword-driven test automation framework for acceptance level testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD). Surprisingly, many of you have been using this framework (in the past) for a basic acceptance ... more
With the proliferation of iOS devices year over year, the threshold of iOS success is higher than ever before. More companies like startups and SMEs find it not financially sustainable to acquire every piece of iOS devices with different OS versions ... more
Dear Testdroiders, As you know, Appium was originally built on the idea that developers (as well as testers and QA folks) could use their favourite tools, frameworks, and programming languages when creating automated tests for mobile apps. Appium has ... more
Dear Testdroiders, We walked through the basic setup and installation of Calabash for Android and iOS in previous blog, and this time we’ll take a look how you can build Calabash tests for your mobile application. If you have followed the example showcased ... more