APPIUM INTRODUCTIONSUI AUTOMATION TEST FOR IOS & ANDROID

SIRIUS DELY27 MAY 2015

UI AUTOMATION(?)Automate user's interaction with the app's UI: tapping button, filling forms,

waiting for specific outcome from the app.

BENEFITS:Automated for sure, for regression tests

Using compiled builds from developer, automation tester

(engineer) doesn't need to compile from codes.

DRAWBACKS:Something to learn, takes time at the beginning (for learning

also while implementing on projects).

Still need to do some 'developer' setups: installing simulators &

SDKS.

APPIUMOpen-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and

hybrid applications on iOS and Android platforms.

"Cross-platform", write tests once for multiple platforms: iOS

& Android

('ideally': if the UI is totally the same, and each developer give thesame 'tag' for all the UI elements between different platforms).

APPIUM'S PHILOSOPHY

#1 "You shouldn't have to recompile your app or modify it in

any way in order to automate it."

By using each platform's native automation frameworks:

, ,

.

We're testing the same app we're shipping!

iOS

UIAutomation Android 4.2+ UiAutomator Android 2.3+

Instrumentation

#2 "A mobile automation framework shouldn't reinvent the

wheel when it comes to automation APIs."

Wrap each of those platform's automation frameworks into

One client-server API: .Selenium WebDriver

#3 "You shouldn't be locked into a specific language or

framework to write and run your tests."

Selenium WebDriver API already has clients written in

.

Appium Team has for iOS & Android.

many

popular programming language

extended WebDriver

#4 "A mobile automation framework should be open source, in

spirit and practice as well as in name!"

Appium is !open-source

GETTING STARTED:Install Appium UI app

Find an app to be tested