Rezwanul Rimel

Appium: Mobile Automation-এর আসল শক্তিটা কোথায়?

অনেকে ভাবে Appium শেখা মানেই শুধু tool শেখা।

কিন্তু আসল ব্যাপারটা একটু আলাদা।

Appium আসলে তোমাকে শেখায়কীভাবে mobile app-এর ভেতরের behavior বুঝতে হয়

কীভাবে flaky test চিনে ফেলতে হয়

আর কীভাবে automation-কmaintainable রাখা যায়Real project-এ Appium ব্যবহার করলে খুব দ্রুত বোঝা যায়:

locator strategy, synchronization, device fragmentation—এই জিনিসগুলো ignore করার সুযোগ নেই।

আমার কাছে Appium শুধু automation tool না।

এটা একটা mindset—

👉 write less, think more

👉 automation যেন problem solve করে, problem না বাড়ায়

যারা mobile automation-এ seriously grow করতে চায়,

Appium এখনো একটা solid choice।

তোমার experience কেমন Appium নিয়ে?

চল কথা হোক 👇

Manual testing interview দিতে দিতে একটা জিনিস clear হয়ে গেছে—

প্রশ্নগুলো আলাদা মনে হলেও আসলে pattern একই।

যারা QA বা Manual Testing role-এর জন্য prepare করছো, এগুলো almost every interview-এই আসে 👇

Basics firstTell me about yourself

What do you know about our company and how QA works here?

Testing fundamentals

What is software testing, in your own words?

Levels of testing

Functional vs non-functional testing

Verification vs validation

STLC

Test scenario vs test case

Regression testing

Smoke vs sanity testing

Exploratory testing

Test design & ex*****on

How do you usually write test cases?

What do you include in a test case?

How do you test a use case or user flow?

How do you make sure you didn’t miss anything?

How do you decide what to test first?

Bug handling

Defect life cycle

What details do you add when reporting a bug?

Severity vs priority (this one comes a lot)

What if a developer says, “This is not a bug”?

Agile side

Have you worked in Agile? What do you do in a sprint?

What is a user story?

What are acceptance criteria?

What happens in daily standups from a QA point of view?

Banking / finance (if the product is sensitive)

Any banking or payment-related testing experience?

Security basics you check as a QA

Which areas you’d never skip testing

Real scenarios

Requirements are unclear—what do you do?

Time is short—how do you test?

A bug is found in production—now what?

How would you test a login page?

What I’ve learned so far 👇

Interviewers don’t want perfect definitions.

They want to see:

Can you think like a tester?

Do you understand real user behavior?

Can you explain your decisions clearly?

If you can explain why you test something, not just what, you’re already doing better than most.

If you’re preparing for QA interviews and want:

simple, real answers

scenario-based explanations

module-wise testing examples (login, payment, dashboard)

Happy to help—comment or DM.