Test tours

To explain test tours, I will start with exploratory testing.

Explotatory testing is a more creative way of testing, but doesn't mean to say it is a random testing as well. Experts say exploratory can be more effective when we make use of test chrters.

Test tours is one of the methods that we can adopt to write test charters (test purpose) for exploratory testing.

Below are some of the tours that I found in the web. All kudos to this page [1]. I am copying and pasting it here for my notes.

• Obsessive-Compulsive tour: This tour aims to repeat the same action as often as possible. This tour can reveal bugs like applying the discount twice.

• Bad-Neighborhood tour: Explore the area or feature that has the most errors. In this tour, you spend time on areas known to have issues.

• Supermodel tour: This tour focuses only on surface looks and the impressions it makes. Test the UI interface and design elements like layouts, icons, flows, and colors. 

• Museum tour: Test code that developers didn't change in a while. You can experiment with how the code functions in new environments (Android, iOS, etc.).

UiAutomatorViewer isn't working with higher java versions.

 

I was getting this error when tried with my default Java 11;

./uiautomatorviewer -Djava.ext.dirs=/Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64:/Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib is not supported. Use -classpath instead. Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit

The problem seems to be caused by the usage of the -Djava.ext.dirs option, which is not supported in newer versions of Java. 

Then, I used use -classpath option to set the classpath and got this error

yumani@Yumanis-MacBook-Pro bin % ./uiautomatorviewer -classpath /Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64:/Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib -Djava.ext.dirs=/Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64:/Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib is not supported. Use -classpath instead. Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine. Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

I am on Java11,  tried different options in the net such as upgratig sdk-tools, downloading swt.jar.

Non worked for me in macOS Ventura.

The web advise that worked was downgrading to jdk 1.8.

So I installed jdk 1.8, updated in .bash_profile, commented out my older version (because I want to switch back to it when I am not using the UiAutomatorViewer.

source ~/.bash_profile 

yumani@Yumanis-MacBook-Pro sdk % tools/bin/uiautomatorviewer -classpath /Users/yumani/Library/Android/sdk/tools/lib/x86_64/swt.jar