What to do if your mobile website requires a tap instead of a click?
Our development team decided that the mobile website only accepts mobile input (tap instead of click) on some elements because that is the actual user behavior. This does mean that if you use watir (I use 6.10.3) or lapis_lazuli (I use 2.1.3), you will have a bit of rework to do for your mobile tests. So let's check out the options and how this was resolved in the test automation suite of Mproof's latest product " Service-Hub ". Image credit: Minuum Intro In one of my previous blogposts I talked about setting up the test automation framework and setting up a browser session with appium_lib, watir and lapis_lazuli for mobile test automation . Not mandatory to read, but could be handy if you're new to mobile website test automation to get you started. Appium_lib gem Let's start with the most popular solution. Appium is made for mobile test automation, so if you use the appium_lib gem for ruby you can execute all kinds of touch actions which is