Challenges with PowerShell Cmdlets for Mobile Compatibility Testing in a New Framework
I've looked through the documentation and I'm still confused about Can someone help me understand I've been banging my head against this for hours. After trying multiple solutions online, I still can't figure this out. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious here, but While working on a project that involves mobile compatibility testing for a new framework, I came across the need to automate some tests using PowerShell. The goal is to validate that our mobile web application behaves correctly across different devices. Initially, I tried utilizing the `Invoke-WebRequest` cmdlet to fetch the mobile version of my web app. Here’s a snippet of what I started with: ```powershell $response = Invoke-WebRequest -Uri "https://example.com" -UserAgent "Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 14_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/606.1.38 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/14.0 Mobile/15E148 Safari/604.1" if ($response.StatusCode -eq 200) { Write-Host "Mobile site is reachable" } else { Write-Host "Failed to reach mobile site" } ``` This worked to some extent, but I quickly realized that it doesn't allow me to validate the rendered HTML structure effectively. Attempting to parse the content using `Select-Xml` didn't yield meaningful results since the response was more complex than I anticipated. To dive deeper, I attempted using `Invoke-RestMethod` instead, thinking it might simplify the interaction: ```powershell $response = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://example.com" -UserAgent "Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:93.0) Gecko/93.0 Firefox/93.0" $html = $response.Content # Further parsing logic needed here ``` Still, the challenge of validating specific elements on the page remained. I want to ensure that certain CSS classes are present, which signify mobile-specific styles. My next approach involved using regular expressions, but my regex skills are a bit rusty, and I ended up with a convoluted pattern that didn’t work as expected. I’ve also considered using Selenium with PowerShell for UI testing. While this opens up broader testing capabilities, the setup process might be overkill for just checking mobile responsiveness. Have others faced similar challenges with PowerShell in this context? What best practices or tools do you recommend for efficiently testing mobile compatibility using PowerShell? My development environment is Windows. Am I missing something obvious? For context: I'm using Powershell on macOS. Am I missing something obvious? Is there a better approach? Any suggestions would be helpful. I'm coming from a different tech stack and learning Powershell.