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
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