Mobile testing and screenshots/videos transfer

In my previous post I have described the method with which we take screenshots or videos during the mobile testing. Taking the screenshot or video is only the first step. The next step is transferring the screenshots to your computer. If you use only one mobile device for testing, the best and fastest way is […]

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Open source testing tools

There are tons of applications available for testing, some of them are free(open source), some of them are commercial. This time I have prepared a list of useful and open source testing tools. Selenium – Web app testing tool – http://seleniumhq.org/ Selenium is a suite of tools such as Selenium IDE, Selenium Remote Control and […]

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Android/iPhone application testing – online services

In my previous post I have mentioned mobile application testing on simulator/emulator. This time I will describe the manual mobile application testing using online services. I have searched for online testing tools in Google and found many sites/services. Some of them only allow some devices listed and you can check only a website, by entering […]

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Android/iPhone application testing – simulator/emulator

Testing the application made for Android/iPhone can be a real nightmare for developers. There are many models and types of Android/iPhone smart devices and it is very hard to ensure that the application will run without having problems on various hardware, various screen sizes and various OS version. To ensure that application will work correctly, […]

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Mobile testing – Screen recording on Android – non-rooted device

In my previous post Mobile testing – Screen recording on Android – rooted device I was talking about screen recording on rooted Android devices. The easy way to get a screencast app is by installing the app directly on the device(requires rooted device and in 99% with rooting users will void the warranty). Here, we’ll […]

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Mobile testing – Screen recording on Android – rooted device

Along with the spreading of the Android smart phones, more and more Android applications have been published. These apps should be thoroughly tested before they appear for download in the Play Store. When testing a mobile application, you will need to take screenshots and record a video to document the error that happened. There are […]

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Mobile testing -Taking Screenshot on Android

Taking a screenshot while testing on Android phone can be a bit confusing, since the process isn’t the same on every device. There are different ways to take a screenshot. 1 – Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) and above If you have Android Smartphone with Ice Cream Sandwich or above installed, screenshot option is built-in! Just […]

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Cross-browser compatibility test using virtual machines

In my previous post I described cross-browser compatibility testing using online services. This time I will focus on cross-browser testing using virtual machines. To be sure that your application will work as expected, you will need to test it in every supported browser/operating system (this means different versions of different browsers and different versions of […]

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Cross-browser compatibility test

It is important to test a web page in different versions or releases of a web browser, including differing versions within a single browser offering (especially Internet Explorer). Internet Explorer has various versions still actively supported. It is impossible to install all browsers on one machine. To install different versions of browsers on different versions […]

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Getting started with JMeter II – record traffic with Jmeter

Here will be described how to simply record traffic with Jmeter. The HTTP Proxy Server allows Jmeter to watch and record the traffic and stores them directly into the test plan. First download and install all necessary packages: 1. Java http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html – After install setup the environment variables 2. Jmeter Download Jmeter from following website, […]

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