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How-to testing documentation for Devs and QA

Read the details about Selenium, Appium and related frameworks and technologies that you can use with Sauce in the following software testing articles.

How Does Your Cross-Browser Testing Tool Stack Up?

Here are 5 key considerations for teams to take into account when selecting a testing platform vendor.

Android Testing

Making sense of Android app testing - automated/manual, testing in-house/on the cloud, Android Selenium, unit testing, CI integration.

iOS App Testing

iOS app testing can be a complex undertaking. This article describes the general issues relating to iOS testing in context and throw light on the specifics of Sauce Labs’ offering.

Mobile Testing Tools

A comparison of 5 open source frameworks for mobile testing: Appium, XCUITest, Espresso, and more.

Using Espresso to Test Mobile Applications in Android Studio

Understand how to use Espresso as a testing framework for mobile application development.

Collaborations Between Your Testing and Other Popular Tools

Testing involves an immense amount of collaboration and organization.

Improving Your Web Applications with Selenium WebDriver

Leverage Selenium WebDriver to automate part of your web application testing approach.

Getting Started with WebDriver in Java Using IntelliJ on Windows

In this article we’ll show you how to run WebDriver in Java using IntelliJ on Windows.

What's Special About Mobile Testing?

This article will lay out some background and approaches to creating an effective mobile testing strategy to help teams move forward.

Don't Get Overwhelmed By Cross-Browser Testing

Learn what cross browser testing is and why it is needed, when teams should use tools, and when they might want to use automation.

Faster Regression Testing With In-Sprint Automation

Uncover some important aspects of automated website testing and how automation fits into a software development strategy.

How to Configure Webdriver-Selenium for Java in Eclipse on Windows

We’ll show you how to start with WebDriver using Eclipse and the Java bindings on Windows, plus write and run one simple test.

Continuous Integration: Why All The Fuss?

CI is a combination of tools, philosophies, and practices that help teams ship quality software at a faster pace.

Effective Mobile App Testing Using Appium

Learn the essential concepts you need in order to understand in order to use Appium.

Getting Started with WebDriver in Python on OSx

This article will show you how to get WebDriver working in Python.

Why Teams Should Consider Parallel Automated Functional Testing

Automating testing brings extraordinary value to a project. Parallel test execution takes it one step further.

Getting Started with WebDriver in Ruby on OSx

In this article we'll show you how to create and run WebDriver tests in Ruby on OSx.

Getting Started with WebDriver in C# Using Visual Studio

This article will demonstrate how to get WebDriver working with C# using Visual Studio.

Getting Started with WebDriver in Java Using IntelliJ on OSx

In this article we’ll show you how to run WebDriver in Java using IntelliJ on OSx.

Getting Started with WebDriver-Selenium for Java in Eclipse

Getting started with WebDriver’s Java bindings in Eclipse is a snap. Here's how to get started.

Emulator, Simulator, or Real Device - What To Use When?

There are different methods to mobile testing. How do you know which one to choose?

Best Practices & Tips: Selenium File Upload

Learn how to upload Selenium files using Webdriver's native file upload feature.

The Selenium ‘click’ command

Learn how the "Selenium.click()” command works to simulate user clicks.

Selenium Jenkins - How to Do it Yourself and Sauce Labs Advantage

If you’d like to do Selenium with Jenkins yourself, using open source software, check out our summary table of Jenkins Selenium solutions.

Selenium Bootcamp - Chapter 1

First in a 5-part series written by Selenium ninja Dave Haeffner.

Appium Bootcamp - Chapter 1

Learn how to use Appium to test mobile apps of all kinds - first of an 8-part series.

Speed Up Your Selenium Tests

Tips and Tricks for speeding up your Selenium Tests

JUnit - Beyond Unit Testing: A Simple Example

Learn how to use JUnit to do acceptance and UI tests on Sauce Labs

XPath Marks the Spot

Learn when (and when not) to use XPath with Selenium.

Automated UI and Browser Testing on Sauce

Sauce Labs lets you do automated UI and browser testing in the cloud.

Is KIF iOS in line with mobile testing best practices?

KIF was created by Square in 2011 to automate iOS apps - how does it compare to Appium?

Open Source Tools - Robotium Android & Appium

Robotium is a popular Android automation framework for testing native and hybrid Android apps.

Mobile Testing Strategy

How to develop a mobile testing strategy that will support complex apps, full system tests and device fragmentation, and how the Sauce cloud can help.

Selenium Tips: CSS Selectors

Learn about CSS rules and pseudo-classes to help you move your XPATH locators to CSS.