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November 16, 2012
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The Future of Selenium for mobile web and native apps
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Transcript
The future of Selenium testing for mobile web and native
apps
Hi. I’m JASON CARR. I work at sauce LABS.
@maudineormsby
None
I’m a developer and contributor to SELENIUM and APPIUM
Context
For mobile web, Web Driver
Script Script Selenium Grid (optional) Selenium Grid (optional) iWebDriver.app
Script Script iWebDriver.app
iWebDriver.app from selenium import webdriver hub = ‘http://localhost:3001/wd/hub’ caps =
webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.IPHONE driver = webdriver.Remote(hub, caps) from selenium import webdriver hub = ‘http://localhost:3001/wd/hub’ caps = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.IPHONE driver = webdriver.Remote(hub, caps)
None
Limitations
iframes
driver.quit()
Alert handling
Javascript
UIAutomation
“…a bit like being dropped off in a field somewhere
with no map, tools or supplies and being told you need to build a house.” -Alex Vollmer
js js Instruments.app Instruments.app App
js js Instruments.app Instruments.app App CLIENT DEVICE
UI Automation only runs in Instruments.app
Tests have to be in Javascript
No realtime interaction with tests
Hard to reuse code
One test at a time
An aside: Android automation…
Monkey Runner
So what have we LEARNED SO FAR?
Two attempted approaches to automation
Script/ Framework Script/ Framework Screen Capture Screen Capture App CLIENT
DEVICE
Hard to abstract
Very brittle
Hard to use with real devices
Hard to use with CI or parallelize
script script Client library Client library App CLIENT DEVICE
Requires code modification
Real devices are hard
New framework and new tests
The RIGHT WAY TO AUTOMATE IOS
Remember the testing pyramid
None
Are you writing unit tests for apps? It’s not that
hard!
Test your views appropriately
For UIWebViews use iWebDriver
Yes, yes, but NOW WHAT?
Code reuse is good.
Realtime interaction
Integrate with existing automation
Parallel tests and real devices
That sounds great, BUT HOW?
APPIUM
Open Source Can be extended
Uses webdriver API Runs with off-the-shelf client libraries Language agnostic
Real time Interact with js interpreter or client
Real devices
Works in parallel (architecturally)
No code modification
test script test script Instruments.app Instruments.app App CLIENT DEVICE Appium
Server Appium Server
Easy to get started
Clone Appium
pip install bottle
python server.py /path/to/my.app
from selenium import webdriver command_url = “http://localhost:4723/wd/hub” iphone = webdriver.DesiredCapabilities.IPHONE
driver = webdriver.Remote(command_url, iphone) fields = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('textField’) fields[0].send_keys(3) fields[1].send_keys(4) buttons = driver.find_elements_by_tag_name('button’) buttons[0].click()
DEMO
Doesn’t support execute_script() …yet. More on this later.
1 Second delay between commands UI Automation limitation
Still uses UIAutomation ‘Accessibility’ is important
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
WebKit remote debugging protocol
Drive mobile safari
Drive desktop safari
Drive chrome on android!
Android RC
Questions? Thank you!
Resources Appium Github Repo: http://goo.gl/4E5F0 Dan Cuellar’s talk on Appium:
http://goo.gl/qgLha François Reynaud on ios-driver: http://goo.gl/pzn75 Simon Stewart’s blog on mobile testing: http://goo.gl/8wl8j