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How to Give a Successful Lightning TalkAppiumA Selenium Conf. 2012 Success StoryDan Cuellar – Lead Software Engineer - Zoosk

+What was Appium in April 2012?

controlled iOS apps with Selenium-like syntax

did not require any modifications to your application

used sanctioned Automation APIs

Supported real-time debugging of iOS automation

+A Timeline for Appium

October 2011 Wrote the first version of Appium

April 2012 Presented Appium as SeConf 2012 Lightning Talk

August 2012 Explained Appium to Jason Huggins at a bar in SF

November 2012 Appium is presented at Mobile Test Summit

January 2013 Current Appium project is started on GitHub

+Appium Today

Open Source Project with a vibrant development community 300+ GitHub Stars, 150+ Forks Over 700 Issues Closed 1000’s of Commits All in just 5 months

Supports Android, iOS, FirefoxOS, Mobile Safari, & Mobile Chrome

Windows and Mac GUIs

Record and Playback Interface & Graphical Inspector

Runs in the Cloud (SauceLabs.com)

Controls Robots

+Advice for Lightning-Talkers

+#1 Screenshots and Videos Are Better Than Live Demos

You have 5 minutes, if something goes wrong You will look dumb You will run out of time No one will get to see your awesome thing

Pre-recording will help keep your presentation on time and on track

+#2 Keep It Moving

5 F*#$in minutes!!!

No time for applause or laughter

Talk Fast

+#3 Target Your Message

Explain what you want (in my case, that was contributors)and appeal to a particular audience.

Speak their language. Hint: It’s not C#.

“My goal was always to get someone drunkand have them take over my project.”– Jason Huggins (on Simon Stewart & Selenium)

“I got drunk and someone took over my project.”– Dan Cuellar (on Jason Huggins & Appium)

;-)Appium Sugardaddy

Jason HugginsOne-Upped!

+#4 Limit Your Content

Once again, only 5 minutes

Prioritize and think about what’s important I have a tool that can automate iOS It doesn’t require any modification to your app You can even use selenium like syntax with it And of course, it works, look at these awesome screenshots

and videos

Lightning talks are not the time to reinvent the universe, and you probably won’t have time to explain how you reinvented it anyways

+#5 Be Prepared To Lose Control

Once it’s out there, people are going to do whatever they want with it. It’s open source!

Appium has been ported 3 times Python C# Python NodeJS

Appium has changed names 3 times iOSAuto AppleCart Appium

At one point, I lost the commit bit on my own project

One day, a website cropped up with a logo and a twitter handle

+More Info

Come to UnConference Talk (Too Hot For Track A!) 10:25am tomorrow (Track B) Jason Carr (SauceLabs) & Me

Web http://appium.io

GitHub http://github.com/appium/appium

Google Discussion Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/appium-discuss

Twitter @appiumdevs