Appium at Scale - Speaker Deck

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Appium at Scale I believe developers should get immediate feedback whenever they run their test suites Sebastian Tiedtke @sourishkrout

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Why is this so hard? ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Lots of platforms and devices… ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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One test case at a time… ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !

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Solution?  

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Automation with Appium ! Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native and hybrid mobile apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver JSON wire protocol.  

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Demo App ! Courtesy of Christophe Coenraets from Adobe ! https://github.com/ccoenraets/directory-backbone-topcoat

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Apache Cordova / PhoneGap ! Apache Cordova is a platform for building native mobile applications using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

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What’s a Hybrid App? ! Apache Cordova runs a web app hosted within a native app (iOS, Android, etc) and make its UI accessible through a “fullscreen” WebView ! Cordova exposes native platform APIs to the web app using a uniﬁed Javascript API   +

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Native vs Webview Context ! Same protocol to talk to native as well as webview parts of mobile apps ! API calls available to switch contexts ! ! ! +

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Native vs Webview Context ! it('should confirm table cell element is visible', function(done) {! h.driver.elementsByTagName('tableCell', function(err, els) {! // do something with native table cell (iOS) elements! });! });! ! it('should confirm spans are visible', function(done) {! h.driver.elementsByTagName('span', function(err, els) {! // do something with span elements (DOM)! });! });!   +

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Test All The Things! ! Local test execution

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Leverage cloud execution… +

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[LIVE DEMO] ! 1. Execute 6 iOS tests locally (exec time 2min) 2. Execute 6 iOS + 6 Android tests in Sauce Cloud (exec time ~45 sec) 3. Double tests to 24 (exec time ~50 sec) 4. Double tests to 48 (exec time ~75 sec) 5. … ! Show case execution time will remain ﬂat while number of tests increase exponentially.

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Sauce Labs Features ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Rich Test Dashboard + REST API access Fast Diagnosis Screenshots & Screencasts Various Logs to Aid Debugging Pristine VMs (Security) Secure Temporary Storage for Apps

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Summary ! ! http://saucelabs.com/ ! Appium: http://appium.io/ ! Gappium: https://github.com/appium/ io.appium.gappium.sampleapp ! Apache Cordova: http://cordova.apache.org/ ! Topcoat: http://topcoat.io/ ! @sourishkrout