Intercepting Network traffic : Appium Intercept Plugin Workshop
summary
Appium Intercept Plugin (Appium 2 + UIAutomator2) lets tests rewrite live network traffic with a single API call so frontend tests simulate edge cases without backend changes. Demo shows a 300+ test regressions baseline and 65% frontend coverage, earlier runs taking ~32–35 hours reduced to ~3–4 hours with device lab, and live examples that replace JSON fields to show “APM vs selenium” and mock 500 status codes to trigger error UI. Requires debug build, proxy cert on device, and is Android-ready.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and challenges
- 5:58Problem and solution
- 10:07Understanding network interception
- 12:08Plugin architecture and features
- 14:28Installation and configuration
- 18:21Demo: modifying response payload
- 29:52Demo: status code mocking
- 36:02Q&A session
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