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Comment on Standard platform, operating system and browser recommendations by Martin Cunnington

Martin Cunnington — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 13:23:59 +0000

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Comment on Mobile test automation in 3 simple steps by barzilay

barzilay — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:00:13 +0000

Hi Mickael,

Thanks for your comment. The error is most likely because it cannot find the android SDK, which is required for running calabash.
You can get the sdk from: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
Also, sure the ANDROID_HOME path points to the correct location. You can verify this by typing:> echo $ANDROID_HOME

Cheers!

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Gilardi Rakyandita — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:54:59 +0000

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Comment on Detecting javascript errors using JSErrorCollector in firefox with cucumber and selenium or watir-webdriver by Naveen

Naveen — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:21:13 +0000

Thank you for the post.. It works like charm.
It will surely save several hours of my time.

Thanks again

Comment on Complete setup guide for Ruby, Cucumber and Watir or Selenium webdriver on Windows by Abrahim

Abrahim — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:28:44 +0000

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Comment on Web testing with Cucumber by Mark

Mark — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 09:50:13 +0000

Wow….that seems like a lot of effort and unnecessary complexity in order to create what is essentially a weak test case.

I accept that for the purpose of demonstration your example was deliberately simple but the whole approach seems sketchy to me.

Complexity is the rub….unknown requirements, unknown dependencies, unintended consequences, race conditions and last but but least…the passing of time.

Trying to reduce requirements to binary functions cannot capture the full and necessary complexity of many systems.

This might work for something simple I do believe it will scale well with complexity.

Comment on Web testing with Cucumber by ATester

ATester — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:48:30 +0000

So I’ve been involved in manual testing for the last 15 years…and because of that timeframe most of what I’ve done is in a classic waterfall environment.

Adapting to Agile/Scrum has been difficult, to say the least…because it typically flies in the face of everything I know about testing. No documents? No long term planning? No TIME?

I’ve used tools like WinRunner to automate tests using a simple recording method (Similar to Selenium) where I can get some results…but the use of these tools has been clunky at best. Now with Cucumber it’s almost seeming that the trend is to change your testers into developers with a knowledge of how to code? Then remove the need or even desire to have classic testers in a development team?

Excuse me, but that’s not nearly as easy as you’d like to think it is.

Your examples above don’t address this possibility of someone who still has a lot to provide to a development group, but was never someone with great knowledge of coding.

Should I be worried that this type of software development trend is going to put me out of a job because I can’t understand how to use a tool like Cucumber?

And if I have to spend all of my time coding test scenarios in Cucumber, how is that really saving me time as opposed to writing them up in a spreadsheet in plain english that I can just give ANYONE (testing background or not, development background or not) to execute?

Comment on Web testing with Cucumber by anil

anil — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 02:07:43 +0000

Hi every one,I am new to start Ruby on rails development,
What tools are used to development AND testing tools?
can you tell me the Names on that one

Plz help me

Comment on Mobile test automation in 3 simple steps by Mickael

Mickael — Mon, 17 Dec 2012 23:15:11 +0000

Hello,

When I was trying to run the ‘calabash-android run myapp.apk’ I was getting:

calabash-android:28:in `raise_if_android_home_not_set’: Please set the ANDROID_HOME environment variable (Runtime Error)

I’m using windows 7, so then I set that variable to:

set ANDROID_HOME=”C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk”

but I’m now getting:

“No test server found for this combination of app and calabash version. Recreating test server.
D:/workspace/calabash/android/vendor/bundle/ruby/1.9.1/gems/calabash-android-0.3.8/bin/calabash-android-build.rb:9:in `calabash_build’: No Android SDK found in “C:/Program Files/Android/android-sdk”/p
latforms/ (RuntimeError)”

Any idea where the problem could be and how to overcome it?

Many thanks…