On the Road to Appium 1.0

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

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appium trivia

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

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

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Unix sockets!

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appium history

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

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After almost one year...

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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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appium 1.0

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

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

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Supported by Sauce Labs, Facebook, eBay, and Mozilla

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

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

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

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

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Page source returns XML

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Mobile-speciﬁc APIs: virtual_keyboard acceleromator geolocation rotation battery_level network_speed

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Native “context” API. No more mobile: leaveWebView

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

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

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appium roadmap

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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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appium for you

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

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appium community

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

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

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

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