Test automation of mobile apps
- 1. Test automation of Mobile Apps Ričardas Vaitkus
- 2. Mobile is taking over the world. But how do we scale mobile quality?
- 3. Native Web Hybrid apps
- 4. Hybrid apps maker • PhoneGap
- 5. Mobile apps testing • Appium is cross-platform solution for native and hybrid mobile automation
- 6. Appium philosophy • Test the same app you submit to the market • Write test in any language, using any framework • Use standard automation specification and API
- 7. Support platforms • Real devices • Simulators • Native apps • Hybrid apps • Mobile web • Robots?!
- 8. Appium in space iOS Android • Calabash-ios • Calabash-android • Frank • MonkeyTalk • UIAutomation • Robotium • ios-driver • UiAutomator • KeepItFunctional • Selendroid
- 9. Selenium WebDriver • Is standard for browser automation, with libraries in every* language • Is used every single day by thousands of developers familiar with its model • Is an HTTP API • POST /session • POST /session/element • GET /session/element/:id/:attr • Is a W3C working draft
- 10. Languages • WebDriver compatible • • • • • • • • • Java Objective-C JavaScript with Node.js PHP Python Ruby C# Perl Clojure
- 11. Appium architecture • Appium is an HTTP server that creates and handles WebDriver sessions • Appium starts a “test case” on the device that spawns a server and listens for proxied commands
- 12. Appium architecture • On iOS, appium proxies commands to a UIAutomation script running in Istruments
- 13. Appium architecture • On Android, appium proxies commands to a UiAutomator test case running on device
- 14. Automation frameworks • iOS – UIAutomation • Android >= 4.2 – UiAutomator • Android < 4.2 & Hybrid – Selendroid • FireFoxOS – Marionette
- 15. Gestures • tap (on screen or on element) • flick (on screen or on element) • swipe/drag (on screen or on element) • scroll to (element) • slider • shake • longTap (element)
- 16. Appium opens door to cross-platform mobile crosstesting: testing one test, two mobile platforms