Detox Mobile Automation with JavaScript & AI Fundamentals

This course is designed for QA testers and automation engineers who want to start mobile automation using Detox with JavaScript and gain a solid understanding of AI fundamentals for testing. Starting completely from scratch, you will learn how to set up Detox, write reliable end-to-end mobile tests, handle real-world test scenarios, and integrate best automation practices.

Along with automation, this course introduces AI basics, AI terminology, and how AI is transforming modern testing, helping you stay relevant in an AI-driven QA landscape. By the end of the course, you’ll be confident in building scalable mobile automation frameworks and understanding how AI concepts apply to testing workflows.

Topics we are covering as part of this course:

• Introduction to Javascript

• Javascript Configuration on Windows  MAC

• Overview on Console.log() & Hello World Program

• Overview on Variables, Comments, Constants, Datatypes, Operators with examples

• Conditional, Looping, break, continue, switch Statements, Functions, Anonymous, Arrow , Objects with examples

• Arrays, forEach, class, object, constructor & methods

• Introduction to Detox

• Detox vs Appium vs XCUITest

• Detox- Gray Box Testing

• Environment Setup for Detox

• Creating a project for Detox

• Configuring project with Detox

• Overview on JEST

• Jest describe, beforeAll, afterAll, beforeEach , afterEach with examples

• Overview on Promise, async & await

• Element identification using Accessibility Inspector

• Update reinstallApp configuration in detox configuration file

• Launch already installed apps using detox

• Identify an element using it label - example on by.label() method

• Identify an element using it text - example on by.text() method

• capture element information using getAttributes()

• capture all elements information using getAttributes()

• Identify an element using it index - example on atIndex() method

• Identify an element using by.traits([traits]) & and(matcher)

• Identify an element using withAncestor(matcher)

• Performing Tap on element

• Performing Tap on element using coordinates

• How to open app source in xcode and identify locators

• Performing MultiTap on element

• Performing LongPress on element

• Performing Swipe Operation - Left, Right, Up & Down

• Performing Pinch Operation

• Performing Scroll Operation - top , bottom, left & right

• Handling text fields - tapBackspaceKey, replaceText, clearText, tapReturnKey

• Capture Screenshot

• Performing Slider on element using adjustSliderToPosition

• Handling DatePicker using setDatePickerDate

• Overview on Device object & commands

• Expect - toBeVisible(), toExist() , toHaveText(), toHaveLabel(), toHaveId(), toHaveValue(), waitFor(), withTimeout(), toBeFocused()  with examples