Is there selenium for mobile devices? Yes that is called Appium :-)

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If you have been working on selenium from then you may have come across AndroidWebDriver and Selendroid. Though both of them are limited to only Android devices. AndroidWebDriver has been deprecated in favor of Selendoid. But what if there were a library which can be used for both android and iOS devices or emulators. And this is what appium does.

Appium is an open-source library which can be used to automate native, mobile web, and hybrid applications for iOS and Android platforms. Native apps are created using iOS or Android SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed on a mobile browser. Hybrid apps are hosted inside a native application that utilizes a mobile platform’s WebView.

Appium supports Safari on iOS phone and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' on Android phone. Tests can also be run on Android and iOS emulator, but well emulators are emulators can not replace real device. So if you have real device at your disposal then avoid emulators.

Verify email confirmation using Selenium

Note: If you are new to java and selenium then start with selenium java training videos . Email confirmation seems to be integral part of any registration process. I came across an application which lets you provide your email address. You can follow the sign up link in you mail and then complete the registration process. Lets consider we provide GMail address for it. Now if were to use only Selenium then we would have to follow following steps - Launch GMail using Selenium; Some how search for new mail in the list of available mails; Some how click on it; Parse the mail message; Get the registration link; Follow up with registration process What do you think of an approach in which you can

Selenium Tutorial: Get attribute of an element

With Selenium 1.0 Let us consider Google Search Box for example and its "max length"is to be retrieved. Using xPath - String var = selenium.getAttribute("//input[@name='q']/@maxlength"); System.out.println(var); Using css locator - String var = selenium.getAttribute("css=input[name='q']@maxlength"); System.out.println(var); With Selenium 2.0 (WebDriver) Using xPath - String var = webDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//input[@name='q']")).getAttribute("maxlength") System.out.println(var); Using css locator - ...

Capture network traffic using WebDriver

We often come across testing requirements when we need to analyze the network traffic to find - HTTP status of page Analyze header information to find if right information is passed Validating parameters related to ajax requests etc Selenium 1 has had a way to capture n/w traffic but the feature does not always work as expected. At times Selenium 1 does not capture all n/w traffic, And given that Selenium 1 APIs are almost dead it is

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