Latest updates from robotium

Since my last robotium blog posts, robotium was improved in several areas. Since version 4.0 robotium supports webviews and with version 4.2 robotium provide a full support for hybrid apps. You can use methods like: typeTextInWebElement(By by, String text) waitForWebElement(By by) clickOnWebElement(WebElement webElement) clearTextInWebElement(By by) getWebElement(By by, int index) … Also a great improvement is … Read more

Central place for test tools

Last week the company imbus ag launched a community portal for collecting and reviewing software test tools for different areas. The platform is named Testtool Review and everybody can contribute to this project. Currently there are tool categories for Code- and Coverage Analysis Continuous Integration Defect- and Changemanagement Load-/ Performance Test Test Automation Testmanagement Testspecification/ Generators … Read more

Given When Test

Today I want to write about behavior driven development (BDD) with Cucumber and Capybara. All those things are not new, but since I changed my company I had the chance to learn new frameworks and tools. Before using the tools you need to install them :). For me the installation was kind of nasty because I am working with windows again and the installation is not so easy and comfortable as for linux or mac. The following stuff needs to be installed on your machine (windows):

If the installation is done you should install the following gems with ‘gem.bat install GEMNAME

builder, bundler, bundler-unload, capybara, capybara-screenshot, capybara-webkit, childprocess, cucumber, diff-lcs, ffi, gherkin, headless, json, mime-types, mini_portile, multi_json, nokogiri, rack, rack-test, rake, rspec, rspec-core, rspec-expectations, rspec-mocks, rubygems-bundler, rubyzip, rvm, selenium-webdriver, websocket, xpath

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Software Test User Group Event in July

Some weeks ago I founded the Software Test User Group Rhein Main. Today is the time to announce the first meetup. We will meet in the office of AOE GmbH in Wiesbaden on 18. July 2013. Address: Borsigstr. 3 65205 Wiesbaden Start: 7pm End: ~10pm If you need more information, see the official XING event. … Read more

36 Days of Web Testing by Robert Lambert

A couple of days ago I found the ebook from Robert Lambert (@Rob_Lambert) “36 Days of Web Testing”. The book is free and covers testing topics like: – Cross Browser – Multiple tabs – Browser extensions – URL changing – … The book is a nice overview and provide lots of useful hints and tips … Read more