HINTS.md

Hints, Tips & Tricks

PyCharm IDE

Make nose default test runner

Preference -> Tools -> Python integrated Tools - Choose Nosetests as Default test runner

Xcode Commandline Tools

xcrun simctl

xcrun simctl tutorial:

• https://www.iosdev.recipes/simctl/

Disable accept trafic messages in iOS Simulator

• https://tomsoderling.github.io/Disable-iOS-simulator-connections-popup/

Android Commandline Tools

Emulator Quick Boot

Start emulator with no snapshot:

$ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator -avd Emulator-Api23-Default -wipe-data -no-snapshot-load -no-boot-anim

When stop emulator it will save its state and next boot with this command will be very fast:

$ANDROID_HOME/emulator/emulator -avd Emulator-Api23-Default -no-snapshot-save -no-boot-anim

Faster Screenshots

See this article

Measure UI Performance

See this article

See this blog

Python wrappers around Android tools

• uiautomator

• AndroidViewClient

  • Example 1
  • Example 2

Chrome

Clean Start

Chrome browser need to be in consistent state for debugger tests. You can achieve it by starting it with custom user profile:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --user-data-dir=c:\temp-user-data

Chrome Dev Tools Shortcuts

• Cheat Sheet
• Add Watch Expression

OCR and Image Recognition

• tesserocr

• opencv-ocr-and-text-recognition-with-tesseract