Appium: Automation for Mobile Apps

This presentation was first given at the Google Test Automation Conference in April of 2013. It introduces Appium, a mobile automation framework, discusses the philosophy behind Appium, and highlights various features.

Most of the content is in my speaking, not the slides themselves. To see the video of the talk, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J0aXDbjiUE&list=SPSIUOFhnxEiCODb8XQB-RUQ0RGNZ2yW7d&index=16

To see the demo video not included in these slides, please visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTIEt11cXNk

Transcript

1. automation for mobile apps Jonathan Lipps | @jlipps | Sauce Labs
2. Mobile is taking over the world. Where is our mobile automation? Our mobile CI?
3. It's a multi-platform age. Mass adoption requires cross-platform apps.
4. appium is the cross-platform solution for native and hybrid mobile automation
5. 1 appium philosophy 2 3 4
6. Rule 1 
 Test the same app you submit to the marketplace
7. Rule 2 
 Write your tests in any language, using any framework
8. Rule 3 
 Use a standard automation specification and API
9. Rule 4 
 Build a large and thriving open- source community effort
10. appium in space! 2 3 4 1
11. iOS Android calabash-ios Frank UIAutomation ios-driver KeepItFunctional calabash-android MonkeyTalk Robotium UiAutomator selendroid
13. Selenium WebDriver is the standard for browser automation, with libraries in every* language
14. Selenium WebDriver is used every single day by thousands of developers familiar with its model
15. Selenium WebDriver is a W3C working draft
16. appium architecture 2 3 4 1
17. appium is an HTTP server that creates and handles WebDriver sessions
18. appium starts a "test case" on the device that spawns a server and listens for proxied commands
19. On iOS, appium proxies commands to a UIAutomation script running in Instruments
21. On Android, appium proxies commands to a UiAutomator test case running on the device
23. appium in action 2 3 4 1
24. appium opens the door to cross- platform mobile testing: one test, two mobile platforms
25. Demo app donated by
31. Demo
35. appium is great for local test development, but has limitations when scaling up for use in CI
36. Sauce Labs is great for scale when you need to run a lot of appium tests in your build
37. saucelabs.com/appium
38. Questions?
39. appium.io github.com/appium/appium   @AppiumDevs    |    @jlipps    |    @saucelabs   Thank you