Naukri is one of the early bird which started automating mobile applications using Appium. It took us lot of time to identify compatibility of Appium with Android versions, and then with Selenium versions and further with java and java clients. The challenges we faced and the final compatibility that worked well for us is something I am sharing here. So, just putting it down here for the benefit of any beginner to appium. Appium! I’m sure is by now not an uncommon tool in the testing community. I consider that you already know ‘What’ and ‘Why’ about Appium. One of the... Read More

What is a wait and why it is used in automation scripts? Have you ever seen a traffic signal? What does the Red light in the Traffic signal indicate? The origin of wait comes from the traffic signal problem. As Red light in traffic signal asks the traffic to halt for some time, similarly wait is used to halt the execution of our automation script for a specified time. In other words wait asks our script to stop the execution for a specified time. Wait is mostly used by automation testers like us to debug our code or to avoid situations like Element not found Exception(s) by the webdriver.... Read More