On the Road to Appium 1.0

In this presentation to the Appium SF meetup group (http://www.meetup.com/Appium-SF/), I go into some detail on what's coming up for Appium, and introduce some of the milestones we need to hit for Appium 1.0.

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1. on the road to appium 1.0
   Jonathan Lipps • Sr Developer • Sauce Labs
   @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
   AppiumSF Meetup • San Francisco, CA
   Dec 11 2013
   

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2. Jonathan Lipps • Sr Developer • Sauce Labs
   @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
   Ecosystem &
   Integrations
   Project Lead &
   Architect
   

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3. appium trivia
   

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4. Who gave the first talk on
   appium and where was it?
   

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6. How does the appium server
   send data back and forth to
   the iOS bootstrap.js?
   

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7. Unix sockets!
   

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8. appium history
   

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9. Restarted from scratch Jan 9,
   2013, based on Dan Cuellar
   and Jason Huggins’s work
   

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10. After almost one year...
    

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11. Over 3,000 commits
    658 stars
    532 forks
    70 contributors
    825 pull requests
    1,500 issues closed
    Dozens of conferences and meetups
    #AppiumSF!
    

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12. appium 1.0
    

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13. The Mobile JSON Wire
    Protocol: “Selenium 3”
    => Protocol, not product
    

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14. Collaboration between
    Selenium, Appium, ios-driver,
    Selendroid, FirefoxOS
    

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15. Supported by Sauce Labs,
    Facebook, eBay, and Mozilla
    

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16. Spec available in draft form:
    https://code.google.com/p/selenium/
    source/browse/spec-draft.md?
    repo=mobile
    

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17. appium 1.0 will implement this
    new, more mature spec (with
    backwards compat)
    

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18. New desired caps:
    platformName iOS
    platformVersion 7
    deviceName iPhone 5s
    

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19. Locator strategies:
    class_name UIAPickerWheel
    accessibility_id Login
    xpath //UIAElement[3]
    id myElement
    ios_uiautomation app.buttons()[2]
    android_uiautomator ?
    

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20. Page source returns XML
    

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21. Mobile-specific APIs:
    virtual_keyboard
    acceleromator
    geolocation
    rotation
    battery_level
    network_speed
    

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22. Native “context” API. No
    more mobile: leaveWebView
    

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23. Server-side waits! Ask the
    server to wait for condition
    instead of waiting in code
    

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24. Official clients will add
    support for new features. No
    more mobile: xxx
    

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25. appium roadmap
    

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26. Real XPath parser
    Native Android webview support
    (4.3+, ?)
    Better platform support (sorry,
    Windows!)
    Better docs and tutorials
    Moar Appium Doctor
    Advanced gestures (iOS)
    Minimizing iOS flakiness
    

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27. appium for you
    

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28. Timeline: fluid :-)
    Backwards compatibility
    Better cross-platform (Selendroid
    using same API)
    Do migrate your tests early!
    

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29. appium community
    

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30. We need you to...
    Keep writing tests!
    Keep contributing code
    Help us with the migration to the 1.0 spec
    DDOS Apple/Google with bug reports
    DDOS Apple/Google with feature requests
    

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31. And...
    Keep being awesome
    Keep being encouraging
    ...people are paying attention.
    

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32. Thanks for a great 2013!
    Here’s to another year of
    appium with you guys
    

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33. Questions?
    http://appium.io
    https://github.com/appium/appium
    @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
    

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34. Thanks!
    http://appium.io
    https://github.com/appium/appium
    @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
    

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