Testing mobile applications with slow network connections is important to ensure the app's performance and usability in real-world scenarios. Appium provides a way to simulate slow network connections during test execution using the
set_network_conditions() method of the
AppiumDriver class.
To simulate a slow network connection, you can call the
set_network_conditions() method and pass the desired network conditions as a parameter. The method takes three parameters: the network type, the latency in milliseconds, and the download and upload speeds in bytes per second.
For example, to simulate a 3G network connection with 1000 ms latency and 512 kbps download and upload speeds, you can use the following code:
network_conditions = {
"offline": False,
"latency": 1000,
"download_throughput": 512 * 1024,
"upload_throughput": 512 * 1024
}
driver.set_network_conditions(network_conditions)?
This code will simulate a slow 3G network connection, and the subsequent test steps will execute under these network conditions. To reset the network conditions to the default values, you can call the
set_network_conditions() method again and pass the default values as parameters.
