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Selenium, Appium,
and Robots!
Jason Huggins
@hugs
Sauce Labs

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A brief history of
test automation...

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2004:

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Google Maps,
Gmail,
Rails,
etc...

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aka

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“AJAX”

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“Web 2.0”

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“It’s now safe to use
JavaScript!”

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But how do you test it?

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With Selenium!

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What’s Selenium?

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“It’s like a robot that
tests your app!”

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Today:

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It’s popular!

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More popular than
the competition!

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But now...

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the game has changed.

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s/desktop/mobile/

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2007: mobile

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2008: mobile

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2009: mobile

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2010: mobile

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2011: mobile

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2012: mobile

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mobile

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!

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But how do you test it?

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What’s Appium?

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Appium is the cross-platform
solution for native and hybrid
mobile automation

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appium.io
github.com/appium/appium
@AppiumDevs

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Appium Philosophy

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Rule 1
Test the same app you submit
to the marketplace

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Rule 2
Write your tests in any
language, using any framework

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Rule 3
Use a standard automation
specification and API

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Rule 4
Build a large and thriving
open- source community effort

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Selenium WebDriver is the
standard for browser
automation, with libraries in
every* language

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Selenium WebDriver is used
every single day by thousands
of developers familiar with its
model

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Selenium WebDriver is a
W3C working draft

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Appium architecture

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Appium is an HTTP server
that creates and handles
WebDriver sessions

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On iOS, Appium proxies
commands to a UIAutomation
script running in Instruments

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On Android, Appium proxies
commands to a UiAutomator
test case running on the device

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Appium opens the door to
cross- platform mobile testing:
one test, two mobile platforms

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(just like how Selenium started...)

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Demo!

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Sample code:

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Ready...
var
wdSync
=
require("wd-­‐sync")
,
assert
=
require("assert")
,
appURL
=
"http://appium.s3.amazonaws.com/TestApp6.0.app.zip";
//
Define
the
environment
var
desired
=
{
device:
'iPhone
Simulator'
,
name:
"Appium:
Sync
WD"
,
platform:'Mac
10.8'
,
app:
appURL
,
version:
''
,
browserName:
''
};

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Set...
//
Instantiate
a
new
wd
session
var
client
=
wd.remote("localhost",
4723);
,
browser
=
client.browser
,
sync
=
client.sync;

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sync(function()
{
//
Init
the
browser
browser.init(desired);
Go!
//
Type
into
two
fields
var
fields
=
browser.elementsByTagName('textField');
fields[0].type('2');
fields[1].type('3');
//
Click
a
button
var
buttons
=
browser.elementsByTagName('button');
buttons[0].click();
//
Verify
results
var
texts
=
browser.elementsByTagName('staticText');
assert.equal(browser.text(texts[0]),
5);
//
quite
the
browser
browser.quit();
});

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Now for something (not)
completely different

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Remember when I said
“like a robot”?

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Well...

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2011
2011

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2012

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2013
2013

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tapsterbot.com
github.com/hugs/tapsterbot
@Tapsterbot

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Demo!

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Time
Unit of Work

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Time
Unit of Work

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