The document discusses challenges in mobile automation testing and provides an overview of Appium as a tool for mobile test automation. It covers Appium architecture, requirements, capabilities, and tips for scaling mobile tests. Advanced Appium actions like horizontal and vertical swiping and chained locators are mentioned. The document also discusses visual testing, accessibility testing, and performance testing for mobile apps using Appium.

1. Mobile Automation with Appium
Manoj Kumar

2. About Me
✓Open Source Enthusiast
(Selenium, ngWebdriver, Serenity, Protractor et..)
✓Author assertselenium.com & official documentation of Selenium
✓Organizer & Program Chair seleniumconf.com
✓Member of Project Leadership committee - Selenium
✓Accessibility enthusiast
✓I work at Applitools AI-POWERED VISUAL TESTING AND MONITORING

3. Today’s Session
✓Challenges of Mobile Automated testing
✓Getting started with Automated Mobile Testing -Appium
✓Advanced features and unique capabilities
✓Scaling your Appium tests
✓State of Mobile Automation testing tools
✓& More

4. TOO MANY
DEVICES
+
BROWSER
COMBINATIONS
TO TEST
TEST MATRIX IS
TOO BIG
TO COVER
MANUALLY

5. RELEASE
CYCLES
KEEP GETTING
SHORTER
CI-CD PROCESSES DEMAND
AUTOMATION
AND
ZERO
MANUAL BOTTLENECKS

6. Automate it!

7. Challenges - Mobile Automation
• Validate every OS version your app supports
• Validate every locale your app supports
• Validate different device manufacturers
• Validate performance of your mobile apps
• Simulator vs Real Device differences

8. Tools / Frameworks

9. Be Honest

10. Detox
WDA
Tool Stack

11. Appium

12. Appium Philosophy
• Test the Same app you submit to the marketplace
• Write automated tests in any language / framework
• An open-source mobile automation framework
• Come up With your own driver implementation

13. Appium
• Appium is a HTTP server that creates and handles WebDriver session
through Mobile JSON WP

14. Appium Architecture
• Similar to WebDriver Server
• A Client-Server architecture
• Server - Node Js
• Client - your Automated Scripts
• Receive request from Client > Executes commands on devices/emulators
> A HTTP response is responded

15. Appium Architecture
• When you download Appium Desktop or install via npm - you’re just
downloading or setting up the Server part of Appium
• When you write an automated Appium Script and execute it, a HTTP
request in JSON format is sent to Server
• Appium sends the commands to iOS and Android platform in a way that it
understands via bootstrap- which acts as a Unix/TCP server

16. Appium in a Nutshell

17. Appium Landscape

18. Source: Jonathan Lipps- CloudGrey

19. Appium Requirements
• Appium via npm server
• Driver Specific Setup
• XCUITest Driver - iOS
• Mac, Xcode > 7, XCUITest library
• UiAutomator2 Driver( EspressoDriver at it Beta Stage) - Android
• Java 7, Android SDK
• Windows Driver - Win Desktop Apps
• Mac Driver - Mac Desktop Apps

20. Appium Server

21. Appium Driver Service

22. Desired Capabilities

23. Appium Inspector

24. Advanced Appium Actions
Name Some please?

25. Horizontal Swiping
Thanks - Srinivasan & Sai

26. Vertical Swiping

27. Vertical Swiping
Thanks - Srinivasan & Sai

28. Chained Locators

29. Any Possible
Thanks - Srinivasan & Sai

30. Tips & Tricks
• No XPath
• Use Predicates in iOS
• Appium is slow
• Stability over speed
• No Docs

31. Performance Testing for Mobile apps
• Mobile apps are usually run in a very constrained environment
• Mobile apps have the potential to create bad user experience not only from
UI perspective but also by jamming CPU or memory and shown as a
“battery draining app”

32. • At least with Android
• dumpsys is a tool that runs on Android devices and provides information
about services and can be used wth Android Debug Bridge
• Allow you to check how your application affects the overall device through
CPU, RAM, Battery, storage stats
List<List<Object>> data =
driver.getPerformanceData("io.appium.android.apis", "memoryinfo",
10);
Performance Testing with Appium

33. Visual Testing for mobile Apps
• Validate if your app looks same on different screen sizes, different
manufacturers
• How will your app layout or structure looks when used in different language
which has long strings like Deutsch
• Consider testing in Landscape mode

34. AI-POWERED VISUAL TESTING AND MONITORING

35. Accessibility Testing for Mobile Apps
• All activatable elements should be focusable
• The user flow on the screen should be from top to bottom and left to right.
The flow throughout the app should be intuitive.

36. Accessibility testing with Espresso
• Accessibility Test framework from Google - Plugged into any Java
framework
• Espresso:
import android.support.test.espresso.contrib.AccessibilityChecks;
@RunWith(AndroidJUnit4.class)
@LargeTest
public class AccessibilityChecksIntegrationTest {
@BeforeClass
public static void enableAccessibilityChecks() {
AccessibilityChecks.enable();
}
}

37. Scaling Mobile Automation

38. Scaling Mobile Automation
• Dockerize Appium Tests - Easy Parallel tests
• Docker based Setup
• https://github.com/butomo1989/docker-android
• https://github.com/appium/appium-docker-android
• No more worry about requirements
• Comes pre-built in a docker image
• Build an Image and execute it!

39. Scaling Mobile Automation
• Appium Test Distribution
• Appium Device Manager
• Remote Appium Manager

40. Video Demo

41. Mobile Automation landscape

42. Mobile Testing tools-Landscape

43. Questions
Thank you!