On boarding Appium Open Source and Perfecto Mobile

Asaf Saar, Head of Product Owners

Perfecto Mobile

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Agenda

• Intro

• Appium Overview• Why Appium

• Appium Inspector

• Appium Challenges

• Perfecto Overview

• Perfecto Mobile and Appium

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About me

• Asaf Saar, Head of Product Owners at Perfecto Mobile.

• 20 years of professional experience in software engineering

• Prior to Perfecto: Founder of TenKod, SAP APO of Software Engineering, and more…

• Agile Software Engioneering trainer, coach and mentor

• Married to Merav and father of three

• Astronomy and fast cars are my hobbies

http://il.linkedin.com/in/asafsaar

asafs@perfectomobile.com

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Appium

Appium is an open source test

automation framework for use with

native, hybrid and web mobile apps.

http://appium.io/slate/en/master

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Why Appium?

• Runs on iOS, Android and most recently on Windows 10 as well…

• Automates native, web and hybrid apps

• Instrumentaiton free

• Uses standard automtion libraries of iOS, Android and Windows

• Support for any WebDriver compatible language

• Use with your favorite testing, build and CI frameworks

• Drives simulators, emulators and real devices

• Open Source, joins the jQuery Foundation...

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Appium major competition

• As an Open Source (or free) Mobile Testing Framework, Appium’s main rivals are:

• KIF

• UIAutomator

• XCTest

• Espresso

• Robotium

• Selendroid

• Calaba.sh

Still, Appium’s market domination is the largest in comparison.By far…

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How it works?

• Driven by a Server, available for Win, Linux and Mac• Server can run using the Appium app or Node.js

• Provides an API based on Selenium's WebDriver JSON protocol.

• Drives Apple's UIAutomation library for iOS support

• Drives Android’s UiAutomator framework for newer platforms and Selendroid for older Android platforms.

• Drives Windows 10 WinApp and Win32 apps via WinAppDriver (the only none open source component here)

• And there’s the Appium Inspector…

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Appium Inspector

• Built into the Appium App

• Provides iOS and Android object inspection (No WinApp support)

• Object tree lockup

• Recording capabilities

• Native only…

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Appium Inspector

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Appium Challenges, general

• Setup is a mess, long prerequisites and manual steps

• Development (OOP) knowledge is a must

• Relatively slow on real devices

• Inspector• Native apps only

(Web via Chrome Developer Tools / Remote Debugging)

• Generated code is incomplete and not robust enough

• No Linux client

• No reporting

• No Visual Analysis capabilities

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Appium Challenges, iOS specific

• Mac only

• App context only• No app switch

• No system level control

• Can’t automation notifications

• Can’t automate iOS keyboard (only send keys)

• No parallel execution of iOS (iOS Instruments limitation)

• Real device setup is challenging

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Dev Environments

Perfecto, Cloud Based Quality Platform for the Digital Era

12

Wind Tunnel Layer

Any IDE

Dev ToolsFunctional

TestingPerformance

TestingProduction

Insight

Any test framework

Any CI server

Any test tool

One Lab for all Digital Platforms

Code Test Production Support

Reporting & Analytics

Open and Integrated

Open &

Integrated

Xcode

Selenium

Perfecto Mobile + Appium

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Migrating Appium test to run on Perfecto Cloud

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https://github.com/PerfectoCode

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();capabilities.setCapability("user", “MY_USER”);capabilities.setCapability("password", “MY_PASSWORD”);capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", “Samsung Galaxy S6”);capabilities.setCapability("platformName", “Android”);

if(os.equals("iOS")) {driver = new IOSDriver(new URL(MY_CLOUD_URL), capabilities);

}Else {

driver = new AndroidDriver(new URL(MY_CLOUD_URL), capabilities);}

IDE Integration

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Execution Reporting

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Thank you!

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