Thanks for joining us last week for our latest webinar, Mobile Testing Talk: What's New With Appium, which featured Jonathan Lipps, the Chief Architect for the Appium Project. To recap, Jonathan gave listeners a tour of Appium version 1.3.x, including the stability improvements and features the team has added since the Appium 1.0 release back in May of 2014. He also touched on the [...]
Developed by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source contributors, Appium is a cross-platform automation framework for testing mobile web, native, and hybrid applications. With tens of thousands of downloads and counting, Appium has quickly become one of the world's most used mobile testing tools - so much so that it won a Bossie Award from InfoWorld as the mobile testing framework [...]
Appium version 1.3.4 was released on Sauce Labs today. Below is the list of updates, or you can always head over to Github for the latest. General better handling of session closing. tmp dir customization via env variable. app/browserName error message fix. functional test fixes. iOS allow location services in zip file. ensure a string is returned from iOS getText. simpler device [...]
We've just released support for emulator testing on Android 5.0 (Lollipop). Android 5 includes some big changes to the look and feel with the move to Material. You can get the code you need to configure your tests to run against Lollipop on our platform configurator.
The Internet was kind to us last week. Here's a quick round-up of some pieces on automated testing, Appium and other mobile test tools, and Sauce Labs. See below for snippets and links to the full articles. 5 Mobile Testing Tools Developers Should Consider by Matthew Heusser and Justin Rohrman Mobile testing tools are experiencing a growth spurt. New products and [...]
Thanks to InfoWorld for naming Appium as the mobile testing framework of choice in the category of the Best Open Source Application Development Tools in this year's Bossie Awards! Sauce Labs is proud to sponsor the development and maintenance of this world class open source project. Cheers to our Ecosystems team and to the external committers who have helped drive its success. For [...]
A few weeks back, we sat down with Carl Shaulis at HomeAway to learn how they leverage Sauce Labs' cloud in their testing process. HomeAway, Inc. is the world's leading online marketplace for the vacation rental industry. With over one million live vacation rental listings in 190 countries paired with a family of 50 websites and hundreds of applications thanks to a series of [...]
We’re still glowing from this year’s Selenium Conf in Bangalore. Santi Ordonez, Ashley Wilson, and Isaac Murchie attended the event and represented Sauce Labs. The Selenium Conference is a volunteer-run, non-profit event presented by members of the Selenium Community. The goal of the conference is to bring together Selenium developers & enthusiasts from around the world to share [...]
