Testing Mobile With Appium
Fil Maj, Mobile R&D, Sauce Labs
@filmaj
Me
Fil Maj
- Work at Sauce Labs
- Work on Mobile Testing Infrastructure
- Live in Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Drink beer, watch hockey (go Flyers!)
Back After A Year!
PhillyETE 2013 was awesome!
Spoke about this same topic last year.
tl;dr: things are much better
Testing
Testing, cont.
Who cares?
Biggest embarassment as a programmer: regressions
Be disciplined at your craft: write a test for each bug
Run your tests after each change. This will prevent regressions.
Over time you grow a set of tests for your application
Continuous Integration
CI automates the testing process. You get continuous feedback as your codebase evolves - in real-time
Testing Desktop Websites
Established testing system is in place: Selenium.
Testing Mobile
Not so easy.
- "Rent" time from a device testing service
- Little to no automation (usually simulator based)
- Not much different from a monkey
Selenium Can Save Us
Open Source and Open Spec FTW
What is Selenium?
- Simply put: it is an HTTP API
- Developed out of a need to test websites
- Naturally this started on desktop
How Does Selenium Work?
Selenium Tests
Scripts can be written in a variety of languages, as there are many "client" libraries
JavaScript, Ruby, Java, C, you name it.
Selenium On Mobile
Appium
http://github.com/appium/appium
npm install -g appiumWhat is Appium?
An implementation of Selenium for mobile
Free and Open Source
Supports Android, iOS and FirefoxOS
Works with browsers, hybrid applications, and native applications
All types of apps!?
That's right!
Selenium is evolving
The spec is being pushed to address new automation needs
Different types of apps, different types of interactions
Appium Demos
Selenium is Hard
Lots of moving parts
Infrastructure is hard: Windows, Mac, Linux, and now mobile...
Sauce Labs to the rescue!
Let us handle the infrastructure: over 300 OS/browser combos, more being added every week
You treat Sauce Labs like just another Selenium server endpoint
Sauce Labs Demo
Coming Soon: Real Device Cloud
We plan on providing a cloud of real devices accessible to users for test runs
Thanks!
