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TESTING MOBILE WITHAPPIUM

Fil Maj, Mobile R&D, Sauce Labs@filmaj

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TESTING, CONT.

WHO CARES?Biggest embarassment as a programmer: regressions

Be disciplined at your craft: write a test for each bug

Run your tests after each change. This will prevent regressions.

Over time you grow a set of tests for your application

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CONTINUOUS INTEGRATION

CI automates the testing process. You get continuous feedbackas your codebase evolves - in real-time

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TESTING DESKTOPWEBSITES

Established testing system is in place: Selenium.

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TESTING MOBILE

Not so easy.

"Rent" time from a device testing serviceLittle to no automation (usually simulator based)Not much different from a monkey

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SELENIUM CAN SAVE US

Open Source and Open Spec FTW

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WHAT IS SELENIUM?Simply put: it is an HTTP APIDeveloped out of a need to test websitesNaturally this started on desktop

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HOW DOES SELENIUM WORK?

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SELENIUM TESTSScripts can be written in a variety of languages, as there are

many "client" libraries

JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C, you name it.

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SELENIUM ON MOBILEAPPIUM

http://appium.io

http://github.com/appium/appium

npm install -g appium

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WHAT IS APPIUM?An implementation of Selenium for mobile

Free and Open Source

Supports Android, iOS and FirefoxOS

Works with browsers, hybrid applications, and nativeapplications

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ALL TYPES OF APPS!?That's right!

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SELENIUM IS EVOLVING

The spec is being pushed to address new automation needs

Different types of apps, different types of interactions

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APPIUM DEMOS

http://github.com/filmaj/appium-test

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SELENIUM IS HARD

Lots of moving parts

Infrastructure is hard: Windows, Mac, Linux, and now mobile...

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SAUCE LABS TO THERESCUE!

Let us handle the infrastructure: over 300 OS/browser combos,more being added every week

You treat Sauce Labs like just another Selenium server endpoint