Dan Cuellar - the creator of the Appium: the leading open-source test automation framework for mobile testing - shared 10 secrets about Appium that you may have never heard before. Dan also talked about what’s new in Appium 1.5 and what’s on the Appium road map for the rest of 2016.

1. WEBINAR
FEBRUARY 16, 2016

2. ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Cuellar
• Creator of Appium
• Head of Software Testing at FOODit
• Previously at Shazam, Zoosk, and Microsoft
• BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon

5. THE MOST TERRIFYING 5 WORDS IN TESTING

6. THIS ALL SOUNDS FAMILIAR

7. EVERYTHING IS NOT AWESOME

8. WHAT IS APPIUM
• An implementation of the Selenium JSON-wire protocol that
controls native and hybrid iOS and Android application
• The most popular open source mobile functional testing
framework

9. APPIUM PHILOSOPHY
• Use standardized and sanctioned APIs and techniques
• Code in the language of your choice
• Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, node.js, PHP, and more
• Do not modify the application under test
• Keep it free and open source

10. HOW DOES IT WORK? UIAutomation /
UIAutomator
Appium
Server
Test Script
JSON-Wire Protocol Request
JSON-Wire Protocol Response
HTTP

11. BY THE NUMBERS
In the last 3 years
• Over 3,000 Stars, 2,000 Forks on GitHub
• Over 150 Contributors and 5,000 commits
• Over 150,000 downloads of Appium 1.0
• Over 3,000 issues closed

12. WHAT’S NEW IN APPIUM 1.5?
• Complete rewrite of the entire codebase
• Continuous Integration and Unit Tests
• Command line arguments are mostly capabilities now
• Code of Conduct and Governance

13. WHY REWRITE?
• 3 years of patches and organic growth
• Many complaints about instability
• Code was not modular enough
• Old and confusing ES5 code
• Callback Hell
• Poorly Tested

17. WHAT’S COMING NEXT
• Windows Phone and Windows 10 application support
• New GUIs
• Multiple New iOS Backends
• Android backend rewrite using UIAutomator 2
• Better docs and onboarding material
• Appium Foundation

18. WINDOWS SUPPORT

19. NEW IOS BACK-ENDS
• WebDriverAgent
• https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent
• Multiple Simulators
• All Applications
• XCUITest
• Created by Apple
• Better support for future versions of iOS

23. https://github.com/appium/appium-for-mac

25. AUTOMATED VISUAL TESTING
• Add visual validation to your existing Appium tests
• Cover content, data, layout and appearance of all the UI elements with
a single checkpoint for an entire page
• Validate the look & feel of your application/website UI on all platforms
• Automated maintenance of the baseline images across multiple
devices / screen sizes

30. https://github.com/appium/selenium-objective-c

31. https://github.com/2gis/Winium

35. ROBOTS

36. HOW DOES IT WORK?
• Calibrate the robot to map points in the physical world to points on a
device screen
• Run an app on the device with Appium that can tell you what
coordinates are being touched
• Touch three places on the device and record the physical and device-
centric coordinates
• Build a matrix to translate any point between the two systems
• Intercept touch actions with the Appium Server and send them to
the robot

37. THE MATH

39. WHY DOES APPIUM SUCCEED?
• From Day 1, There Was a Clear Philosophy and Vision
• We try to be as inclusive as possible to foster an active community
• We support many languages and platforms as
• Our tool is based on an existing tool people are already familiar with
• We put a whole lot of work into it
• We speak at any and every conference that will have us
• We contribute a lot of our unpaid time into the product

40. INCLUSIVENESS

41. INCLUSIVENESS

42. INCLUSIVENESS

43. INCLUSIVENESS

44. PERSONAL TAKEAWAY
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact:
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that
were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it,
you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
-Steve Jobs

45. MORE INFO
• Website: http://www.appium.io
• Slack: appium.slack.com
• Forum: discuss.appium.io
• GitHub: http://www.github.com/appium/appium