Troubleshooting and best practices

Working with emulators requires a lot of patience and practice. Making emulator programs work according to how you need them to perform, needs a solid programming mindset.

The following are some industry best practices and troubleshooting tips that will come in handy when working with emulators:

  • Some platform emulators, like those for Blackberry and Windows, are not fully supported with any freeware automation tools, hence if it is a requirement to cover these platforms in the automation solution, then using emulators is not the right approach and it is best to go for other approaches.
  • A best practice is to use a robust IDE, such as Eclipse, configured with both Android SDK and Selenium. For configuring Android ...

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