UIAutomation - Log Title and Message of an Alert

The post on Juelua Lu's blog illustrates how to display both the title and body of an alert.

http://juehualu.blogspot.com/2012/07/iphone-uiautomation-javascript-alert.html

Learning UIAutomation

I am in the midst of writing automation for an iOS project. One of the tools I may select is bundled with Apple's Instrumentation software, UIAutomation. As I search and read the web for information about iOS automation and general mobile test topics, I find it difficult to organize the information in a coherent way. This blog post and other will be my attempt to being some order to my research.

Working with UIAutomation
http://alexvollmer.com/posts/2010/07/03/working-with-uiautomation/

An oft searched for quote from Alex Vollmer's posting on Working with UIAutomation is "First, log the element tree (via UIATarget.logElementTree()) liberally and often."

As I get used to writing Javascript again, I find myself missing the IntelliJ IDE I used when writing Java based selenium web automation. It had been very helpful to use its Intellisense type tools...

UIAElement Class Reference
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/ToolsLanguages/Reference/UIAElementClassReference/UIAElement/UIAElement.html

iOS Automated Tests with UIAutomation
http://blog.manbolo.com/2012/04/08/ios-automated-tests-with-uiautomation

Its dated April 8, 2012. I have not read through it much, but doesn't hurt to have another general reference handy.

http://www.juddsolutions.com/downloads/UnitAndFunctionalTestingForiOSPlatform.pdf

Online JavaScript Interpreter
I am pretty sure, but could be wrong, that there is no console based javascript interpreter outside of a browser. I want to exercise javascript as a functional language rater than anything ties to a browser. One tool I ran across is an interactive interpreter that runs in a browser. Maybe this is something useful.

Of particular interest to me is that I can save the page as a static page to run when disconnected from the internet or when and if the page moves or is removed from the web.

http://math.chapman.edu/~jipsen/js/

UI Automation JavaScript Reference
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/DeveloperTools/Reference/UIAutomationRef/UIAutomationRef.pdf

gumbypp's iPhone device testing page
http://iphone.gumbypp.com/provisioning.html

A fantastic mind map for iOS testing. I would love to modify this for my own project as a good top level "test plan"
http://www.ministryoftesting.com/2012/09/ios-testing-mindmap-checklist/
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8033/7916949920_37dc872d36_o.png

More
http://www.ministryoftesting.com/resources/mobile-testing/

Really Good Article...

http://vokalinteractive.com/2011/12/02/automated-testing-in-ios/

A forward-thinking scripter could use predicates to ensure the script works even as your interface is reorganized in the future.


http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7308058/best-resources-for-uiautomation-testing-for-ios-applications

http://agilewarrior.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/getting-started-with-frank/

Test Studio from Telerik
http://www.telerik.com/automated-testing-tools/support/documentation/mobile-testing/overview.aspx

Pivotal Labs

http://pivotallabs.com/iphone-ui-automation-tests-a-decent-start/
http://pivotallabs.com/iphone-ui-automation-tests-with-jasmine/

http://juddsolutions.blogspot.com/2010/06/your-phone-is-so-much-more-than-phone.html

http://www.testingexcellence.com/does-automating-your-manual-tests-give-you-good-automated-tests/
http://blog.smartbear.com/automated-testing/divide-your-automated-testing-efforts/

UI Automation test runner - Bwoken
http://bendyworks.github.io/bwoken/

iOS UI Automation
http://randomzone.in/2013/04/11/introduction-to-ios-ui-automation/

UI Automation + tuneup.js

•     It is the Apple’s inbuilt Automation testing framework.
•     It is highly stable and also reliable testing framework.
•     It uses javascript to automate the testcases.
•     Automation can also be performed in the specified devices
•     It can also be accessible from command line so that we can also integrate this with Hudson
•     Considering its salient features,simplicity UIAutomation is preferred for automating the test cases over other testing frameworks

Bwoken – iOS UIAutomation testing in CoffeeScript
http://thechangelog.com/bwoken-ios-uiautomation-testing-in-coffeescript/

iOS automation testing: the new baseline skill for ensuring quality

http://aalittle.com/iOS-automation

VIDEO
Introduction to UIAutomation Testing on iOS (Video/Slides)
https://www.cocoacontrols.com/posts/2012/11/13/introduction-to-uiautomation-testing-on-ios-video-slides

Must be a Typo - 25 Years Experience Required

I just got mail describing an SDET position in the Seattle area. Here is a snippet :

Must have At least 35 years experience in testing or development of databasedriven web applications or other enterprise software Solid Java or Groovy programming and testing experience...

I'm pretty sure web applications are a bit newer than 35 years :-)

IntelliJ Tip - Imports Code Styles

One of the coding standards I follow is that all imports must be fully qualified. Out of the box, IntelliJ 12 has is configured so that if I import more than 3 classes from a package then those imports are collapse into one import ending in '*'.

To fix this do :

In IDE, click the wrench icon on top toolbar.
Then pick Code Style / Java and then 'Imports' tab

Set "Class count to use import with '*': to '999'.