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Testing on Mobile Devices with Location Services

Can I change my mobile location during testing? Why do I need to change my location? What is the difference between GPS and Geo-IP? Do the Location Services behave the same way on Android and iOS? How do I handle location permission alert pop-ups? How should I automate tests that involve location services using Appium commands?

Run a Test with Sauce Connect Proxy

See a demonstration of how to run a Java Selenium test through the Sauce Connect Proxy. This video uses a code sample available publicly (links on training.saucelabs.com). See how to quickly start a tunnel, update variables, set the capabilities in your test code, then use the command line flag to test through the secure proxy tunnel that is Sauce Connect so you can run your tests securely using Sauce Labs cloud of devices, and share your test results.

[KataMeet] Flaky Tests "Painkillers" - Methods that work!

In the first episode of Katameet, Jagmit Singh - Senior Automation Engineer and Katalon Community Ambassador - and the Katalon Community weighed in to find the ultimate Flaky Tests “Painkillers”. Handle test flakiness with Katalon Studio & Katalon TestOps ✨ 🤙 Katalon Studio: Increase test stability and reduce flakiness in your test designs with its “self-healing” feature. 🤙 Katalon TestOps: Get access to advanced flakiness reports to easily identify these tests at all stages of your testing process

[Odyssey Conference 2021] Improving Mobile Quality with Shift-Right Testing

Join in with Coty Rosenblath - Chief Technology Officer at Katalon Inc to learn tips in achieving optimal product stability and performance with insights from risk mitigation in larger production levels to more effective cross-team collaboration in mobile shift-right testing. Katalon TestOps & Katalon Recorder 👇 🤙Katalon TestOps: Utilizing our centralized and real-time test quality platform, make test execution a walk in the park and effectively perform shift-right testing through real-time production system monitoring.

Top 5 JavaScript Test Automation Frameworks in 2021

JavaScript consistently ranks as the world’s most popular programming language among developers. It should come as no surprise, then, that a variety of JavaScript test automation frameworks are available to help developers test JavaScript apps. Here’s a look at the top five such frameworks, with tips on the pros and cons of each.

Tech Talk : Sauce Performance

This is a Tech Talk around Sauce Performance with one of our main Software Engineers on the Sauce Performance product, Farhan Iqbalhusain Chauhan and the Product Manager, Ada Bogatek. Farhan goes into a full demo in detail of exactly how Sauce Performance works within the Sauce platform and Ada explains the benefits this will bring to your business and exactly why front-end performance testing is important.

Networked testing: economic considerations and financial impacts

Should you build an in-house QA team, or should you rely on software testing companies? The conversation around insourcing versus outsourcing looks very different for quality assurance than for other teams like engineering or product management. These teams offer very clear ROI from insourcing unless we’re talking about some side project that keeps getting deprioritized in the backlog, like a new API.

OctoPerf v12.2 - Flexible license sharing, improved VU validation, XPath and JQuery

We’ve been working a lot behind the scenes for this release because we wanted to address the license sharing issue. Up until today it was only possible to ask us to share the license for you and sharing could only share every license you own. We had to completely refactor the way we handle licenses to allow you to decide on your own to share all or a fraction of your subscriptions. But that’s not all, we also worked on a VU validation with multiple iterations.