Changing Android 10 or higher device Locale programatically
While testing your app, its common that you want to test it under different locales as part of your automation strategy. Lets see how to do it.
Appium Tip #1 Forcing the retrieval of UI hierarchy on iOS
If appium can’t retrieve the element hierarchy on an iOS app for whatever reason, try one of these methods:
driver.executeScript("mobile: source", ImmutableMap.of("format", "description"));
driver.executeScript("mobile: source", ImmutableMap.of("format", "json"));
On your test code, this will return the source, although it mmight not be as neatly formated as the usual getSource(), sometimes that method doesn’t retrieve every element. This can be an useful workaround.
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2020
2020 What a year…
So what can I say that hasn’t been said about 2020? That it has been a great year so far! Wait, what? Yes, in retrospective and very selfishly it has been a ...
Appium Tip #2 Forcing a search in an unresponsive field
If appium can’t retrieve the element hierarchy on an iOS app for whatever reason, try one of these methods:
Selenium Tip #1 Waiting for a node to be ready in the grid
Here’s a little useful snippet I found to wait for a node to be present in the selenium grid’s console.
Appium Tip #1 Forcing the retrieval of UI hierarchy on iOS
If appium can’t retrieve the element hierarchy on an iOS app for whatever reason, try one of these methods:
Game related youtube channels
For a month and two weeks now, I’ve been having less and less time to do much beside changing diapers. If I can squeeze a bit of time into my hobbies, I have...
2019
Moving to linux at work
So I’ve been using Linux here and there for many many years, but never used it as a daily driver. On my current work, we use Linux machines a lot, both physi...