Monthly Archives: July 2017

Behaviour Driven Development (BDD)

By |2018-03-29T14:31:15+00:00July 21st, 2017|Categories: BDD, SpecFlow|Tags: , , , , , |

What is Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)? History eXtreme Programming (XP) and Test-Driven Development (TDD) have been around for a long time. The idea was for stakeholders and testers to write automated tests that expressed their desired outcome from the system. These would fail to begin with as there was no code to test against, but [...]

How to use the new Step Record Feature in Appium Desktop Inspector

By |2018-03-29T14:31:16+00:00July 13th, 2017|Categories: Appium|Tags: , , , |

Appium Desktop 1.1.0 beta4 introduces a Step Recorder. This allows you to record user actions and produces code for you. This can then be copied into Eclipse to give you a boiler-plate script to expand from. This is very useful for learning Appium or for creating templates to get up and running quickly. Step 1 [...]

How to install Pickles UI on Windows

By |2018-03-29T14:31:16+00:00July 12th, 2017|Categories: BDD, SpecFlow|Tags: , , , , |

This blog accompanies our BDD SpecFlow training course. It takes you step by step through installing Pickles and configuring reports in Pickles UI. Step 1 - Install Chocolatey Go to https://chocolatey.org/ Click Install Copy the link below the Installing Chocolatey section: @"%SystemRoot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe" -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -Command "iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://chocolatey.org/install.ps1'))" && SET "PATH=%PATH%;%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\chocolatey\bin" Open a command prompt [...]

How to add Microsoft Edge Browser to your Selenium Grid

By |2018-03-29T14:31:16+00:00July 7th, 2017|Categories: Selenium Grid, Selenium WebDriver|Tags: , , , |

This blog follows on from the previous blog about how to set up Selenium Grid for WebDriver or for Ranorex Web Testing. These instructions show you how to also include the Microsoft Edge Browser in your established Grid running on a Windows local host machine. Step 1 - Download MicrosoftWebDriver The first step is to [...]

How to install Appium Server Command Line on Windows

By |2018-03-29T14:31:53+00:00July 5th, 2017|Categories: Appium, Selenium WebDriver|Tags: , , , , , |

Installing Appium Server on Windows In our Appium courses we use Appium Desktop as it provides a nice GUI wrapper around Appium Server and includes the Inspector for element identification and a step recorder. However, we may wish to integrate our Appium testing into Continuous Integration (CI) such as Jenkins. So we will want to [...]

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