mobile automation made awesome

Jonathan Lipps Director of Ecosystem & Integrations, Sauce Labs@AppiumDevs @jlipps @saucelabs

AppsWorld San Francisco, CAFeb 5 2014

Ecosystem &Integrations

Project Lead &Architect

Jonathan Lipps Director of Ecosystem Sauce Labs@AppiumDevs @jlipps @saucelabs

Advanced Mobile Testing with Appium and Sauce Labs

appium introduction

Mobile has won. So how do we scale mobile quality?

Risk grows with complexity. Small changes can have huge unintended consequences

Automated testing is the solution for a fast dev cycle that maintains high quality

Continuous integration is the holy grail: automated testing and deployment

The Dev Cycle ofOptimal Happiness[ ]

appium is the cross-platform solution for native and hybrid mobile automation

appium makes automated testing possible for mobile, clearing the path for real CI

appium raison dtre

iOS Android

Calabash-iosFrankUIAutomationiOS-DriverKeepItFunctionalSubliminal

Calabash-androidMonkeyTalkRobotiumUiAutomatorSelendroidInstrumentation

The appium philosophyTest the same app you submit to the marketplaceWrite your tests in any language, using any frameworkUse a standard automation speci!cation and APIBuild a large and thriving open-source community eort

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Platform SupportReal devicesSimulatorsHybrid appsMobile webRobots?!

Demos

appium real devices

appium mobile web

appium robots

DemosVisit the Sauce Labs booth in the expo for more demos

appium architecture

Automation OrchestraApple Instruments & UIAutomation for iOSGoogle UiAutomator for Android (4.2.1 up)Selendroid for older Android & hybridMarionette for FirefoxOSWebDriver interface

appium is an HTTP server that creates and handles WebDriver sessions

Selenium WebDriverhas been the standard for browser automation

Selenium WebDriveris a HTTP APIPOST /sessionPOST /session/elementGET /session/element/:id/:attr

Selenium WebDriverhas clients in every* language

Selenium WebDriver is a W3C working draft*

appium extends the WebDriver protocol with mobile-specific behaviors

appium is working with the Selenium project so we can standardize these extensions

appium setup

RequirementsBasically the same as dev toolkits for iOS, AndroidXcode + iOS SDKAndroid SDK + Java

Install: Option OneClone from GitHubREPO=appium/appium.gitgit clone https://github.com/$REPOcd appium && ./reset.shnode .

Install: Option TwoInstall from NPMnpm install -g appiumappium

Install: Option ThreeDownload the GUI app# github.com/appium/appium/releasesopen /Applications/Appium.app

appium test model

Start/stop a session

Start/stop a session

Find elements

Interact with elements

Access webview elements

appium scale

appium is great for local test development, but has limitations when scaling up for use in CI

Sauce Labs is great for scale when you need to run a lot of appium tests in your build

Run tests on Sauce

saucelabs.com/mobileFREE FOR OPEN SOURCE

appium is also compatible with Selenium Grid, which helps with your own closet cloud

appium future

Appium 1.0Native client support for mobile methodsBetter Windows supportBetter documentation and tutorialsFull XPath element finding support...and more!

Roadmap

appium hackers

We need you...Node.js devs (for Appium server)Obj-c devs (for Appium.app)C#.Net devs (for Appium.exe)Java devs (for Appiums Android bootstrap)Windows Phone devs (we need to support it!)Hardware hackers (for robot automation)

Please head to the Mobile QA Panel at 4:00pm!

Questions?http://appium.io

https://github.com/appium/appium@AppiumDevs @jlipps @saucelabs

Thanks!http://appium.io

https://github.com/appium/appium@AppiumDevs @jlipps @saucelabs