Appium Base Driver

There are times when developers get stuck with a problem that has to do with version changes. Trying to run the code or test without upgrading the package can result in unexpected errors.

It has been around a year since we went live with the first iteration of LambdaTest Platform. We started off our product offering manual cross browser testing solutions and kept expanding our platform. We were asked many feature requests, and we implemented quite a lot of them. However, the biggest demand was to bring automation testing to the platform. Today we deliver on this feature.

As everyone knows, the mobile industry has taken over the world and is the fastest emerging industry in terms of technology and business. It is possible to do all the tasks using a mobile phone, for which earlier we had to use a computer. According to Statista, in 2021, smartphone vendors sold around 1.43 billion smartphones worldwide. The smartphone penetration rate has been continuously rising, reaching 78.05 percent in 2020. By 2025, it is expected that almost 87 percent of all mobile users in the United States will own a smartphone.

JUnit is one of the most popular unit testing frameworks in the Java ecosystem. The JUnit 5 version (also known as Jupiter) contains many exciting innovations, including support for new features in Java 8 and above. However, many developers still prefer to use the JUnit 4 framework since certain features like parallel execution with JUnit 5 are still in the experimental phase.

With the rise of Agile, teams have been trying to minimize the gap between the stakeholders and the development team.