Mobile Testing and Traffic Interception
Test a mobile app the way a phone uses it: tell app types apart, pick what only a phone breaks, choose devices from usage data, run the app in the Android emulator and read its crash in Logcat, then watch and change its traffic through a proxy (Charles, with Proxyman, Fiddler and Postman compared) and report a mobile bug with log and traffic evidence. For testers who already test a web shop and its API. Course 8 of the QA Engineer Path.
Course 8 of 13 in the QA Engineer Path
12 lessons · 157 stepscertificate
12 lessons · 157 steps
certificateWhat you will learn
Plan mobile checks, read app logs and change traffic through a proxy.
Course program
The full outline. Lessons open when the course does.
How mobile is different
Platforms and app types12 steps
What breaks on mobile11 steps
Plan and run on devices
Devices, emulators and farms12 steps
Checklist and cases for an app12 steps
Android Studio: emulator and Logcat15 steps
Xcode: the iOS Simulator and logs15 steps
Mobile bug hunt13 steps
Traffic through a proxy
Charles: setup15 steps
Charles: breakpoints, rewrite, throttling15 steps
Other proxies and how to choose11 steps
Intercept and change traffic13 steps
Review: mobile and traffic13 steps
How this course compares with others
Section: QA Engineer Path
- Software Testing from Zero: The First Shift8 lessonscertificate
- How Software Gets Built: Process for Testers7 lessonscertificate
- Test Design Techniques8 lessonscertificate
- Test Cases, Bug Reports and Test Plans13 lessonscertificate
- Web Testing with DevTools13 lessonscertificate
- API Testing with Postman12 lessonscertificate
- Databases and SQL for Testers8 lessonscertificate
- Mobile Testing and Traffic Interceptionyou are here12 lessonscertificate
- Command Line and Git for Testers8 lessonscertificate
- Logs, Metrics and Queues for Testers10 lessonscertificate
- Environments, Docker and CI for Testers9 lessonscertificate
- AI Assistants for Testers5 lessonscertificate
- Release Night: Test a Shop End to End10 lessonscertificate
Next on the path: Command Line and Git for Testers
The author
Artsiom Rusau – QA engineer and course author. He has tested software since 2019 and has taught software testing since 2020.