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Alright, on a Windows 11, this is what you do. Download and install GitBash – my personal favorite 😍 Why GitBash? To find out about installations on your system, from the command line. Some other uses. To practice some Linux commands on Windows 🤔 To install software using package managers — but later, so relax To run the Appium server from the command line This is faster and more productive…

So, we are now in Appium 2.0. In fact I am using 2.13. A few months ago, when I tried to look at Appium. I was able to set it up with amazon corretto java 8. However, when I started running the tests, I used to get various exceptions. Possible reason 1: Unfortunately some folks could not simply figure out why test cases did not execute.So, I did a fresh install with Java 21, and suddenly things…

Aah, the good old days when I started using Appium 1.4 to automate a mobile application. What was going for it? a. Open Source b. Hope for reducing risks related to “Tester exasperation” c. Mostly Json wire protocol, and some W3C protocol d. UiAutomator framework e. Appium Desktop client Cut to 2025: What is going for Appium 2.x? a. Still Open Source b. Hope for reducing risks related…

A human thinking effort that is lost in mundane, repetitive work is basically marginal value, creating toxic cycles during your so called manual testing effort. The word “manual” in manual testing is misleading. Every testing effort needs a tool. Ex: To document your tests you need an Excel sheet or a tool like Jira. If I would use the word manual, I would mean thinking or I would just call it…

Disclaimer:  The above image is AI generated Alright, here I am after a gap of a few months. Gen AI is creating a lot of buzz. While you have several names like ChatGpt, Perplexity, Google Gemini etc. doing the rounds wait… DeepSeek. Eeeek! Some folks did get scared for a while As a beginner, one should be concerned about privacy issues.   You need to issue a prompt which contains detail of the…

“Manual Testing… has become as stale as last week’s bread! It’s gotten so stale that if you don’t have a clue about testing, you might as well be trying to juggle jellybeans,” joked a Sr. Executive of a company during a 1:1 interview. Let us see here. Pass Fail If you’re running test cases to put your app to the test, you probably have a report boasting a shiny Pass/Fail column. But let’s be…

Gamifying life of a software tester using AI/Machine learning #MachineLearning #games #Habit A thread ⬇️

The life of some software testers simply seems to 1. Open their machine, look at instructions open a tool and 2. Start executing test cases (which are either written by them or by someone else) repeatedly I have seen many testers simply having a routine, and executing the same tests – especially the ones that cannot be automated (sometimes several). This is so demotivating! A pragmatic…