Cross platform mobile UI automation testing
- 1. Cross Platform Mobile UI Automation Testing Presenter: Anjum Shrimali
- 3. We will cover… Need of UI automation in testing Understanding Appium and automation frameworks Explore Appium-UIAutomation python lib Hands on Road map 1
- 4. Software testing is to qualify, Objectives of software testing 2 • Consistency and integrity • Robustness and stability • Ease of use from real user perspective
- 5. Manual testing Pros/Cons 3 - Ability to see real user issues - Lot more flexibility - Can make system more robust by creative destructive thinking - Slow and costly - Don’t scale well - Not consistent or repeatable - Lack of training - Difficult to manage - Tedious for regression of large projects Pros Cons
- 6. Automated testing driven by a manual tester What makes sense? 4 • Repetitive and tedious for manual tester Consistency and integrity • Need fresh mind and time to find creative ideas to break system Robustness and stability • Need involvement and analysis from real user’s perspective Ease of use from real user perspective
- 7. Mobile UIAutomation frameworks 5 iOS • UIAutomator • XCUITest Android • Instrumentation • Robotium/Calabash • Expresso/V2 • Selendroid • UIAutomator/V2
- 8. 6 • Supports many frameworks and platforms • Open source • Active community • Accepts common commands and translates them for individual platform One stop solution
- 9. Involves client, Selenium web driver, mobile platforms How Appium works? 7
- 10. Appium Components 8 Client API calls can be made from many languages Selenium Web driver Is an API which directly communicates with platform’s native automation frameworks Mobile automation frameworks They understand commands sent by selenium web driver and return results back
- 11. Most recent automation frameworks 9 • XCUITest for iOS and UIAutomator V2 for android • XCUITest supports iOS 10 / XCode 8 • UIAutomator V2 supports most recent android versions • Both supported by Appium 1.6
- 12. Basics of UIAutomation 10 Find something Do something Check something
- 13. Appium-UIAutomation lib 11 • Client lib made in python • Common “Find something” for both iOS / Android • Uses Appium-Python-Client and Selenium 3.0 • Best guess the widget and find it through XPath • Easy as you find what you see
- 14. How it guesses? 12 <XCUIElementTypeTextField Text field <android.widget.EditText… Type of component Hint | Value | Label | Name Text field Text By name 3rd element in result Text field 3rd element in result At index
- 15. What else? 13 • Uses python unittest framework for test suite • Processes common find commands • Processes common perform commands on Appium • Helper script to generate initial test case • Asks for platform and app bundle path to execute
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- 17. Start using it :) 15 • Open source at https://github.com/ayshrimali/Appium- UIAutomation • Contributors are welcome • Post issues, suggest improvements
- 18. 16 “Automation does not do what testers used to do, unless one ignores most things a tester really does. Automated testing is useful for extending the reach of the testers work, not to replace it.” –James Bach (Ex - Testing manager @Apple)
- 19. 17 Thank you