automation for mobile apps

Jonathan Lipps | @jlipps | Sauce Labs

Mobile is taking over the world. Where is our mobile automation? Our mobile CI?

It's a multi-platform age. Mass adoption requires cross-platform apps.

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

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appium philosophy

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Rule 1 Test the same app you submit to the marketplace

Rule 2 Write your tests in any language, using any framework

Rule 3 Use a standard automation specification and API

Rule 4 Build a large and thriving open- source community effort

appium in space!

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iOS Android

calabash-ios Frank UIAutomation ios-driver KeepItFunctional

calabash-android MonkeyTalk Robotium UiAutomator selendroid

Selenium WebDriver is the standard for browser automation, with libraries in every* language

Selenium WebDriver is used every single day by thousands of developers familiar with its model

Selenium WebDriver is a W3C working draft

appium architecture

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appium is an HTTP server that creates and handles WebDriver sessions

appium starts a "test case" on the device that spawns a server and listens for proxied commands

On iOS, appium proxies commands to a UIAutomation script running in Instruments

On Android, appium proxies commands to a UiAutomator test case running on the device

appium in action

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appium opens the door to cross-platform mobile testing: one test, two mobile platforms

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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

saucelabs.com/appium

Questions?

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