{"id":30946,"date":"2021-09-22T08:21:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T08:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/app14743.cloudwayssites.com\/?p=30946"},"modified":"2021-09-23T03:23:04","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:23:04","slug":"getting-started-visual-ui-testing-android-apps-applitools-bitrise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/app14743.cloudwayssites.com\/blog\/getting-started-visual-ui-testing-android-apps-applitools-bitrise\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Started with Visual UI Testing for Android Apps with Applitools and Bitrise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A hands-on guide for getting started with visual UI testing for mobile apps with Applitools and Bitrise easily.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mobile apps play a critical role nowadays in our life, especially during the pandemic period, like e-commerce, groceries, medical, or banking apps. As we know there are different mobile apps, technologies, SDKs, and platforms that make mobile testing<\/a> have a lot of challenges and which need special technical skills from the testing team to tackle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And because most of the mobile companies aim to release their apps on a weekly or bi-weekly release cadence based on the team decision to deploy new features to the customer before their competitors, they are using different techniques. One of them is test automation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on that, in this article, I\u2019ll walk you through the most important aspects of automating the Visual UI testing for mobile apps and running it via CI\/CD pipelines using Applitools and Bitrise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s Visual Testing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Visual Testing<\/a> is a testing activity that helps us to verify that the GUI (Graphical User Interface) appears correctly and as expected to customers, by checking that each element on a mobile app appears in the right size and position on different devices and OS versions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why should we automate Visual UI Testing?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mobile companies nowadays are applying Mobile DevOps<\/strong> and implementing CI\/CD (Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery\/Deployment) <\/strong>pipelines to deploy their mobile apps consistently and frequently. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the vital parts of this process is test automation, to make sure that app functionalities are working as expected and test that there are no blockers or critical issues in the early stages (Fail Fast<\/strong>) by running these tests on every pull request or as a nightly build. And if we add Visual UI testing with this pipeline we will make sure that there are no issues in the GUI and all the features are displayed correctly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this tutorial, I will add the Visual UI Testing to my Android UI tests with Appium<\/a> and then run my tests on Bitrise as CI\/CD pipeline, covering the following steps:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Implement and run test and locally with Applitools Eyes SDK<\/li>
  2. Push the code to the GitHub repository<\/li>
  3. Create Bitrise account and add the project<\/li>
  4. Add the Applitools Environment Variables <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Let\u2019s get started! <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

    To get started with Appium for Android applications, you should prepare your local machine with the following requirements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n