Over the last year, there has been a growing trend of iOS development teams adopting XCUITest and additional frameworks built on top of the XCTest interface. Development teams have started to adopt XCUITest for iOS test automation to get fast and reliable feedback. There are a few clear drivers to this growing adoption: Intuitive – Using XCUITest is quite intuitive for developers as it runs from within the XCode IDE Fast – Test execution against iOS devices is faster than any other UI test automation tool due to the framework architecture Reliable – Due to the architecture of the fram ..read more

Introduction App performance can be a killer problem for any digital company, especially when the performance issues take too long to identify. What I have found by working with many of our customers is that the answer can be hiding in the HAR file data- which is why you should always check them. Step 1: What Is a HAR File? HAR (HTTP Archive Viewer) is a JSON file that contains a record of the network traffic between client and server. It contains all the end to end HTTP requests/responses that are sent and received between the two network components. Step 2: What Can I Do With It? Th ..read more

The adoption of DevOps methodology  has increased and the need to release to production in shorter cycles is driving teams to accelerate process and embed early test automation. Teams operating in this release velocity need fast & reliable feedback for every code change to ensure app quality. Is this new process forcing teams to choose between automation frameworks? Espresso (Android) and XCUITest (iOS) are UI automation frameworks that fit very well with this new development process . Many teams are trying to make a decision – which test automation framework to adopt? The below compari ..read more