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In today’s world, testing cannot be efficient without automation. We need automation for avoiding repetitive work, making sure that the time from development to deployment is reduced with good quality. We just don’t need automation tests, rather tests which are reliable, robust, easy to code, debug, scale and can run in parallel on distributed environment.The paper explores the challenges that can be faced while automating web, mobile web, android, ios, api tests via a common framework such as, a common way of interaction with web and mobile apps, automatically identifying connected mobile devices and run the parallel test instances, writing hybrid tests; a combination of web and api use cases, not tightly coupled with a specific application rather can be used for automating any web, mobile based application.This paper further discusses the approach to bring efficient, generic and re-usable solution for these challenges while ensuring that the users write reliable, robust and effective tests. The approach followed here spans across following areas:- Webdriver management and parallel run. DSL layer on top of the existing api libraries for easy to use interface. Reporting and logging mechanism. Utilities and integration with third parties (like Slack, Jira, Bitbucket, Jenkins, Device Farms, etc )The benefit of this framework is, it is application agnostic capability, which helps to use the same framework against any web applications (web, mobile) for test automation.

Automation in testing is crucial for bug discovery and enhancing the quality of the software product. Automation also saves time and helps delivering the product faster. Automating a game play in a card based game is challenging due to the indefinite cards which are served during game play and also due to the fact that the dynamic logic should be applied according to the type of card one receives during game play. A successful approach of building a test automation framework for automating the game play of a single instance of a card based game was achieved previously.[1] This test automation framework is further enhanced to achieve the objective of automating the game play of multiple games of a single player i.e., a player playing multiple instances of the card game simultaneously. The automation is demonstrated in automating the game play of Rummy. However, this approach can be adapted to automate any card based game. The unique approach is discussed and evaluated in achieving this objective.

Using automation to ensure reliability of a tricky card based game application is not a child's play, especially when the underlying engine is cocos-2dx, which is the world's no. 1 open-source and a cross-platform game development platform. This paper explores the challenges that can be faced while automating a game developed using cocos-2dx, such as dynamic rendering of game elements, overcoming the limitations in using automation tools like selenium in the absence of any locators to identify the visible or active elements to perform any operation. This paper further discusses the approach to bring efficient, generic and re-usable solution for these challenges while automating a multiplayer card game developed using cocos-2dx. This multi-layered approach spans across the following areas: 1) The mechanism for working and communicating with cocos-2dx web and native game client. 2) Approach for automating multiplayer game using FSM. 3) Automating the game play based on game rules which follows a heuristic approach. The benefit of this automation approach is that it makes the code 'device agnostic, which helps to run the same code against multiple devices of varying screen size and resolutions. This approach also makes the code robust, reducing any false failures since the interaction with the client is done via Javascript, which lot of UI automation tool still does not guarantee.