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
2. Jonathan Lipps • Sr Developer • Sauce Labs @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs Ecosystem & Integrations Project Lead & Architect
3. appium trivia
4. Who gave the first talk on appium and where was it?
6. How does the appium server send data back and forth to the iOS bootstrap.js?
7. Unix sockets!
8. appium history
9. Restarted from scratch Jan 9, 2013, based on Dan Cuellar and Jason Huggins’s work
10. After almost one year...
11. Over 3,000 commits 658 stars 532 forks 70 contributors 825 pull requests 1,500 issues closed Dozens of conferences and meetups #AppiumSF!
12. appium 1.0
13. The Mobile JSON Wire Protocol: “Selenium 3” => Protocol, not product
14. Collaboration between Selenium, Appium, ios-driver, Selendroid, FirefoxOS
15. Supported by Sauce Labs, Facebook, eBay, and Mozilla
16. Spec available in draft form: https://code.google.com/p/selenium/ source/browse/spec-draft.md? repo=mobile
17. appium 1.0 will implement this new, more mature spec (with backwards compat)
18. New desired caps: platformName iOS platformVersion 7 deviceName iPhone 5s
19. Locator strategies: class_name UIAPickerWheel accessibility_id Login xpath //UIAElement[3] id myElement ios_uiautomation app.buttons()[2] android_uiautomator ?
20. Page source returns XML
21. Mobile-specific APIs: virtual_keyboard acceleromator geolocation rotation battery_level network_speed
22. Native “context” API. No more mobile: leaveWebView
23. Server-side waits! Ask the server to wait for condition instead of waiting in code
24. Official clients will add support for new features. No more mobile: xxx
25. appium roadmap
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
27. appium for you
28. Timeline: fluid :-) Backwards compatibility Better cross-platform (Selendroid using same API) Do migrate your tests early!
29. appium community
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
31. And... Keep being awesome Keep being encouraging ...people are paying attention.
32. Thanks for a great 2013! Here’s to another year of appium with you guys
33. Questions? http://appium.io https://github.com/appium/appium @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs
34. Thanks! http://appium.io https://github.com/appium/appium @AppiumDevs • @jlipps • @saucelabs