Appium has the ability to adjust the network connectivity of Android Emulators with a simple desired capability: DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities() Ĭaps.setCapability( 'networkSpeed', 'lte') While worldwide cellular networks are growing and improving, even in the most developed cities you will encounter bad network connections throughout the day. Since app developers need to ensure apps work in all situations, app testers must test these situations too! Ensuring that software works for non-ideal cases is much more work than programming the happy-path behavior, and is perhaps more critical.