MAY 10, 2017

DISCOVERING APPIUMA JOURNEY FOR BEGINNERSA S A F S A A R – D I R E C T O R P R O D U C T M A N A G E M E N T

A G E N D A

AGENDA

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• Intro

• Appium Overview

• Why Appium

• Appium Desktop

• Appium Challenges

• Appium Alternatives

• Sauce Labs Overview

• Sauce Labs and Appium

ABOUT ME

• Asaf Saar, Director of Product Management at Sauce Labs

• 20 years of professional experience in software engineering

• Prior to Sauce: Chief Product Owner at Perfecto Mobile, Founder and

CEO of TenKod, SAP APO of Software Engineering, and more…

• Agile Software Engineering trainer, coach and mentor

• Married to Merav and father of three

• Astronomy, fast cars and vintage computers are my hobbies

asaf@saucelabs.com

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

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APPIUM

Appium is an open-source tool for

automating native, web, and hybrid

applications on mobile platforms

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

WHY APPIUM

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

• Automates native, web and hybrid apps

• Instrumentation free

• Uses standard automation libraries of iOS, Android and Windows

• WebDriver based, supporting any compatible language

• Use with your favorite testing, build and CI/CD frameworks

• Drives simulators, emulators and real devices

• Open Source, part of the JS Foundation.

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APPIUM DESKTOP

• An open source app for Mac, Windows, and Linux

• The power of the Appium automation server in a flexible UI

• An Inspector that you can use to look at your app's elements

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APPIUM CHALLENGES

• Setup is challenging

• Development (OOP) knowledge is a must

• Framework only. No test management, no reporting

• Appium Desktop

• No recording capabilities / code generation

• No smart locators, returns Full XPath

• Somewhat slow on cloud

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APPIUM CHALLENGES, IOS SPECIFIC

• iOS on localhost requires a Mac

• System level control using XCUITest

• Parallel testing requires Mac machine per device

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

• Safari browser only

• Setup of real iOS Devices is a pain

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APPIUM ALTERNATIVES

Open Source Commercial

Espresso HPE UFT / LeanFT – Mobile Center

Robotium SmartBear TestComplete

XCUITest Ranorex Studio

Calabash ExperiTest

Sikuli Perfecto Mobile

EggPlant

SIGOS App Experience (Keynote DA)

Borland Silk Mobile

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Mobile App TestingWeb Testing

The industry’s only cloud-based testing platform for both web and mobile applications that spans desktops,

simulators, emulators and real devices

Desktops Emulators & Simulators Real Devices11

CURRENT MOBILE OFFERING

Manual Testing

Automated Testing

Emulators & Simulators

Public Cloud Private Cloud

Real Devices

Public Cloud

Mobile Testing

SECURITY & PRIVACY

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APPIUM AND SAUCE LABS

● Appium is a first-class citizen on Sauce Labs’ EMU/SIM and RDC

● Compatibility with Appium means

● No vendor lock-in; the freedom to run the same tests in-house or on our cloud

● Support of a broad ecosystem of tools and resources

● Appium scripts can be executed against emulators/simulators and real devices, in the same project, with basic test setup parameterization

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RUNNING APPIUM ON SAUCE LABS

Executing Automated Tests on Sauce Labs RDC requires the following steps

• Upload app to TestObject Storage

• Update scripts to use the TestObject authentication key

• Update endpoints in test scripts

• Update desired capabilities in test scripts

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RUNNING APPIUM ON SAUCE LABS

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https://github.com/saucelabs-rdc-sample-frameworks/Java-TestNG-Appium-Android-Watcher

D E M O

Q U E S T I O N S ?

LET’S DO THIS.