Yearly Archives: 2017

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 [...]

How to set up a Selenium Grid for Remote WebDriver Execution

By |2018-03-29T14:31:54+00:00May 19th, 2017|Categories: Automated Testing, Selenium Grid, Selenium WebDriver|Tags: , , , |

For those of you that are using Selenium WebDriver 3 but haven't set up a remote Selenium Server, here is a simple guide to get you going. In this example we are just using 2 PCs. PC1 - This is the PC with Eclipse and WebDriver 3 installed (IP: 10.0.0.37) PC2 - This is the [...]

How to set up a Selenium Grid for Ranorex Web Test Remote Execution

By |2018-03-29T14:31:54+00:00April 19th, 2017|Categories: Automated Testing, Ranorex, Selenium WebDriver|Tags: , , , |

Ranorex 7 has a brilliant new feature of being able to execute web tests against remote machines using Selenium Server. This allows us to execute tests in parallel against multiple browsers and on various platforms (Linux, Windows, Mac). For those of you that are using Ranorex but haven't set up a remote Selenium server, here [...]

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