The Present and Future of Mobile Test Automation with Appium

F14
Session - Mobile Testing
4/28/17 2:00 PM

The Present and Future of Mobile Test
Automation with Appium

Presented by:

Jonathan Lipps
Sauce Labs

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Jonathan Lipps
Sauce Labs

Jonathan Lipps has been making things out of code for as long as he can
remember. As the director of open source at Sauce Labs, Jonathan is leading the
charge to improve the web and mobile testing ecosystem. He is the architect and
project lead for Appium, the open-source, cross-platform mobile automation
framework written in Node.js. He has worked as a programmer in tech startups
for more than a decade. Jonathan lives in Vancouver, enjoys running, produces
music, and writes about the philosophy of technology.

The Present and Future of Mobile Automation
Jonathan Lipps • Director of Open Source • Sauce Labs
 
@AppiumDevs • @saucelabs • @jlipps
Mobile Dev+Test • San Diego, CA
April 28, 2017
Jonathan Lipps • Director of Open Source • Sauce Labs
 
Director of Open Source
Project Lead & Architect

appium is the open-source, cross-
platform solution for native, web, and
hybrid mobile app automation
appium introduction

appium makes continuous integration
possible by providing automation for
mobile apps
appium takes the best mobile
automation technologies and gives them
to you in a WebDriver interface

Why WebDriver?
It’s the globally-recognized W3C standard
for browser automation
WebDriver
is an HTTP API
POST /session
POST /session/element
GET /session/element/:id/:attr

appium works with any language and
any test runner / test framework, even
custom ones

Java : JS : Python : Ruby : PHP : C# :
ObjC : Perl : Swift : Go
appium enables true cross-platform
test-writing. One API for iOS, Android,
Windows, and macOS

appium test model
Server (appium)Client (test script)

Construct desired capabilities
{
"platformName": "iOS",
"platformVersion": "10.2",
"deviceName": "iPhone Simulator",
"app": “/path/to/TestApp7.1.app”,
"noReset": true
}

Request a session with capabilities
Request a session with capabilities Parse capabilities

Start session based on caps
Start session based on capsStore session id for future calls

Send automation commands
Send automation commands Parse command request

Perform automation
Perform automationCheck result, make verifications,
etc…

etc…
etc…
Request session quit

etc…
Request session quit Shut down app, clean up resources
WebDriver / appium API Example Description
findElement
Find an element by its accessibility id, resource id,
xpath query, etc…
click Click/tap on a found element
getText Get the label/text of a found element
sendKeys
Type into an input field or adjust other UI controls
(like setting slider value)

appium philosophy
The world of mobile and other new
platform automation is constantly
changing

The world of mobile and other new
platform automation is constantly
changing
Earl GreyEspresso
XCUITest
UiAutomator
UiAutomator 2
UIAutomation
With each new technology come new
benefits, but also drawbacks and the pain
of relearning and rewriting everything

appium finds the best automation
technologies and translates them to the
same standard WebDriver API
The appium “umbrella”
• Get the benefits of new automation tech without having to
rewrite your tests
• Leverage your industry-standard Selenium/WebDriver
experience
• Write cross-platform tests: one API for multiple platforms
• Encourage platform vendors to support one stable and
standard protocol

appium platforms
Deprecated Platform Description
iOS - Instruments & UiAutomation
- Powered by Instruments & UiAutomation
- Available up till iOS 9.3
Android - UiAutomator
- Powered by UiAutomator
- Supported from Android 4.2
- Superseded by UiAutomator 2

Current Platform Description
iOS
- Powered by XCUITest (Apple) & WDA (Facebook)
- Available for iOS 9.3+
Android
- Powered by UiAutomator 2 (Google)
- Released before Android 6.0
Windows Desktop
- Powered by WinAppDriver (Microsoft)
- Released before Android 6.0
macOS Desktop
- Powered by Appium for Mac (community)
- Works with most versions of OS X
youi.tv
- Powered by youi-engine (Youi)
- Works with the Youi app framework
appium platform demos

Demo Code
github://jlipps/mobile-dev-test-examples
appium test writing

appium desktop is a point and click
interface for using appium and
inspecting your app’s structure
appium desktop makes it easy to get
started writing tests for your app by
showing you what elements you can use

appium desktop demo
appium vision

In a world of many automation platforms,
appium becomes more than a software
package bundling them all together
The driver portfolio grows
• WinAppDriver expands to support mobile, Xbox, more?
• Espresso support?
• Earl Grey support?
• Unity3d support?
• IoT platform support?

IoT??!??
• Automate IoT UIs (Android-based)
• Automate IoT framework software
• Lots of other possibilities…

appium 2.0 is…
• The WebDriver protocol (plus necessary extensions)
• A set of NodeJS libraries for writing drivers easily
• A loose federation of drivers maintained by communities
• A CLI tool for installing, managing, and running drivers
• Extending this tool to appium desktop
appium is the open-source, cross-
platform solution for native, web, and
hybrid mobile app automation

Thanks!
http://appium.io
https://github.com/appium/appium
Questions?
http://appium.io
https://github.com/appium/appium

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