Verifying a mobile build with Smoke Tests & Appium

Appium is a brilliant open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It can drive both iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol.

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1. Verifying a Build with Smoke Tests & Appium by Ezo Saleh Robot by Dan Hetteix from The Noun Project
2. shamless plugs
3. @ezodude
4. blog <- ezosaleh.com
5. smoke testing
6. I has User Acceptance Tests
7. Scenario: eat 5 out of 12! Given there are 12 cucumbers When I eat 5 cucumbers Then I should have 7 cucumbers
8. a bit heavy weight
9. smoke tests preliminary testing to reveal simple failures severe enough to reject a release
10. target the most important things
11. the most fundamental user stories
12. no automation can replace real-user feedback
13. appium
14. automates all the mobile things
15. a test server
16. wraps vendor testing frameworks
17. speaks WebDriver API
18. CALL elementByCss("input[type='email']",500) POST /session/:sessionID/element {"using":"css selector","value":"input[type='email']"} RESPONSE elementByCss("input[type='email']",500) {"ELEMENT":"5000"}
19. tests in any language
20. awesomes!
21. capabilities
22. platformName: 'iOS'
23. client libraries
24. ruby -> selenium-webdriver
25. javascript -> wd.js
26. promises, pure async or generators
27. putting it together
28. fork me github.com/the-experimenters/appium-smoke-tester
29. mocha & wd.js
30. one test file per scenario
31. css selectors
32. it("should have an email field", function () { return driver .elementByCss('input[type=\'email\']', 500) .should.eventually.exist; });
33. mind the contexts!
34. hybrid === WEBVIEW
35. demo
36. finally
37. easy with CI
38. run appium remotely
39. timing is everything
40. fork me github.com/the-experimenters/appium-smoke-tester