What to do when your tests fail? Read on...

Retry your test case on Jenkins:

As much as we want to keep user interface tests free of failures, timing issues and page element errors pop up from time to time in automated UI checks. If not a test bug, these often reflect the nature of the app under test, its behavior under certain conditions like the internet connection or the machine slowing down suddenly or the page not loading properly. Such errors can be annoying in tests and if we ever want to continue using them, we’ll have to re-run them some of the time to make sure that errors do exist.

Send slack notifications

Using Slack for official communication? How about getting notified about execution details instantly through slack. Sounds interesting. Right?

Send SMS from Jenkin

Need a reminder for re-setting a soon to expire password in your automation code?

Using library you will be able to get updates of your test case execution instantly. You can receive error or failure reason on SMS so that action can be taken proactively.

Rebuild the job

We can define certain rules using jenkins so that in case our tests fail more than the allowed threshold, say X%, we can rerun the suite to rule out any environmental issues.

In this talk we will be discussing the implementation details of the above points so that you know what you can do when your tests fail!

Port Independent execution

As we know, by default Appium server is running to port 4723 for your test application while creating driver. But what will happen if the port is not free or port 4723 is not open on localhost (127.0.0.1/0.0.0.0)?

For such problem, we will discuss how yo use java classes to fetch the free local ports and use them when the default port is not free.

Platform version independent framework

When we trying to run our android execution on old Appium version e.g. 1.5 or 1.4 for old Android platforms then the execution not works for the latest android versions. Then in such case we can install and switch between multiple versions of Appium without the hassle of regular install and uninstall of Appium versions.

Deep Links in execution

Today, one of the main concern in Appium is that execution of test cases is slow due to which the overall test execution takes too much time. To overcome this problem, we can implements the deep link or you can say shortcuts within the codes so that functional testing frameworks can execute faster.

In our daily test cases execution we have to perform login action in app step by step to test any functionality which took around 30sec to 1-2 minutes of time. We can reduce it by simply deeplink the login using login api and perform the further actions. This will help in overall test case execution time.