Selenium, Appium, and Robots!

Selenium, Appium, and Robots!

Jason Huggins@hugsSauce Labs

A brief history oftest automation...

2004:

Google Maps, Gmail, Rails,etc...

aka

“AJAX”

“Web 2.0”

“It’s now safe to use JavaScript!”

But how do you test it?

With Selenium!

What’s Selenium?

“It’s like a robot that tests your app!”

Today:

It’s popular!

More popular thanthe competition!

But now...

the game has changed.

s/desktop/mobile/

2007: mobile

2008: mobile

2009: mobile

2010: mobile

2011: mobile

2012: mobile

mobile

!

But how do you test it?

What’s Appium?

Appium is the cross-platform solution for native and hybrid mobile automation

appium.iogithub.com/appium/appium@AppiumDevs

Appium Philosophy

Rule 1Test the same app you submit to the marketplace

Rule 2Write your tests in any language, using any framework

Rule 3Use a standard automation specification and API

Rule 4Build a large and thriving open- source community effort

Selenium WebDriver is the standard for browser automation, with libraries in every* language

Selenium WebDriver is used every single day by thousands of developers familiar with its model

Selenium WebDriver is a W3C working draft

Appium architecture

Appium is an HTTP serverthat creates and handles WebDriver sessions

On iOS, Appium proxies commands to a UIAutomation script running in Instruments

On Android, Appium proxies commands to a UiAutomator test case running on the device

Appium opens the door to cross- platform mobile testing: one test, two mobile platforms

(just like how Selenium started...)

Demo!

Sample code:

Ready...var  wdSync  =  require("wd-­‐sync")    ,  assert  =  require("assert")    ,  appURL  =  "http://appium.s3.amazonaws.com/TestApp6.0.app.zip";

//  Define  the  environmentvar  desired  =  {    device:  'iPhone  Simulator'    ,  name:  "Appium:  Sync  WD"    ,  platform:'Mac  10.8'    ,  app:  appURL    ,  version:  ''    ,  browserName:  ''};

Set...//  Instantiate  a  new  wd  sessionvar  client  =  wd.remote("localhost",  4723);    ,  browser  =  client.browser    ,  sync  =  client.sync;

Go!sync(function()  {    //  Init  the  browser    browser.init(desired);

   //  Type  into  two  fields    var  fields  =  browser.elementsByTagName('textField');    fields[0].type('2');    fields[1].type('3');

   //  Click  a  button    var  buttons  =  browser.elementsByTagName('button');    buttons[0].click();

   //  Verify  results    var  texts  =  browser.elementsByTagName('staticText');    assert.equal(browser.text(texts[0]),  5);

   //  quite  the  browser    browser.quit();});

Now for something (not) completely different

Remember when I said “like a robot”?

Well...

20112011

2012

20132013

tapsterbot.comgithub.com/hugs/tapsterbot@Tapsterbot

Demo!

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