There might be several reasons when QA needs to skip some automation tests in the test suite.It could be skipping temporarily because of any defect ,or not supported functionality on specific api level or any other known issues. Junit provide multiple ways to achieve this goal. 1. Use JUnit’s Assume feature: We can use the…

As Quality Engineer we need to turn off the animations sometimes in android emulator for improving performance.It might be needed in manual testing as well as in automation testing to reduce flakiness. There are multiple ways to disable animations in android emulator. Disabling animation manually via developer options: Check if developer option is enabled on your…

Android provides an in-built framework to test accessibility in our app, called Accessibility-Test-Framework-for-Android(ATF).We can turn on accessibility checks in Espresso and Roboelectric using this framework. You can follow below steps to enable ATF in your project: In Espresso , you can add following dependency in your app’s build.gradle : dependencies…

When it comes to running android UI Test suite ,it’s very important to set the android emulators in correct state so that test won’t fail because emulator is stuck in some undesired state. Preconditions might vary based on your test suite , I am listing down some of the precondition…

As Quality engineer ,we always need to make sure that the application’s user interface is displayed as per design.In Espresso, we can verify the text color ,background color ,text font , element position ,element is truncated or wrapped properly etc. Color and font verification can be done by following these…

While writing automation tests for android applications ,sometimes we need to clear all the shared preferences added during our tests. We might run into a situation where your app under test will go to screen A if it is first launch and to screen B if user has already logged…