- Why do we need automation? - What is it? - How to implement automation in different types of mobile applications?

1. Mobile Automation
WHYs? & HOWs?

2. Agenda
• Back to the future

3. Agenda
• Back to the future
• WHYs

4. Agenda
• Back to the future
• WHYs
• HOWs

5. Agenda
• Back to the future
• WHYs
• HOWs
• More HOWs

6. Agenda
• Back to the future
• WHYs
• HOWs
• More HOWs
• And Again more HOWs

7. Agenda
• Back to the future
• WHYs
• HOWs
• More HOWs
• And again HOWs
• Q&A

8. Back to Future
Total amount of smartphones in the world is 2.53 billions and going up
Total amount of PCs and Laptops in the world is 1.4 billions and going down
63% of all traffic is Mobile

9. Types of Mobile Apps
Mobile
Web
Native Hybrid PWA
HTML/CSS/JS
+
Black Magic
HTML/CSS/JS JAVA/Kotlin
OBJ-C/Swift
C#/Python
JS
C/C++
JAVA/Kotlin
OBJ-C/Swift
C#/Python
JS
C/C++
&
WebView
(HTML/CSS/JS)
Android
Instant apps
Android 4.1 >=

10. All depends on type
of mobile app

11. Options on Market
for Web Mobile
There are 5 more tool but I never heard someone is using them

12. Ways to Test Mobile Web
Open a browser with specific screen resolution
Run Tests On Simulator/Emulator/Real Device

13. Small issues that can
happens

14. Options on Market
for Native and Hybride Mobile Apps

15. Usage by BitBar

17. What is Appium?

18. “Appium is an open source test
automation framework for use with
native, hybrid and mobile web apps. “

20. Small list of preconditions
1. Install XCode
2. Install XCode command line tools (`xcode-select --install`)
3. Install Android Studio
4. Install SDK platforms (5.0 - Android P), SDK platform-tools, SDK tools
5. Install JDK
6. Install brew
7. Install Node (`brew install node`)
8. Install Appium (`npm install -g appium`)
9. Install Appium-doctor (`npm install appium-doctor -g`)
10. Open or create .bash_profile
11. Add to .bash_profile:
- `export ANDROID_HOME=/Users/$USER/Library/Android/sdk`
- `export PATH=${PATH}:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools`
- `export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-9.0.4.jdk/Contents/Home`
- `export PATH=${PATH}:$JAVA_HOME/bin`
12. `brew install libimobiledevice`
13. `brew install ios-deploy`
14. `brew install carthage`
15. `brew install allure`
16. `brew install tesseract`
17. `brew install pipenv`
18. In Terminal run `appium-doctor` (you should not get any errors)

21. So let’s imagine real
life story

22. So what we need to
do???

24. Whats Next?

25. CI/CD

26. What is so specific
about Mobile CI/CD

27. There is no Mac
Machines on AWS

28. So Let’s Build our
Device Farm
There ARE some cloud device farms out there
But they are DAMN expensive

30. We need to deal with
Simulator/Emulator/Real
Device

31. • For Android We need to write ADB (Bash scripts)
• For IOS we need to write XCRUN/ SIMCTL (Bash scripts)

32. Let’s Summarize
• Writing Scripts and Try it Locally
• Adding some Magic (Bash scripts) to start/kill/erase
simulators/emulators/real devices
• Connecting it all in any CI/CD tool (Better to use same
tool that are used by Client Developers)
• Building Our all Device Farm
• Enjoying

33. Let’s Do OUR UI Tests
GREAT AGAIN

34. By the way my name
is Denys
/denys-iaremenko-a71346a5/
/denis.yaremenko

35. Q&A