This document discusses Appium tips and Inneractive's integration with Appium for testing mobile applications. It provides an overview of Inneractive, which is a mobile ad exchange focused on native and video ads. It then discusses Gil Sheps' experience with mobile automation and the tools considered for testing, including Appium. The document outlines Inneractive's testing practices using Appium and Maven on Sauce Labs/Perfecto Mobile. It provides various Appium tips and techniques for testing elements, timeouts, and more.

1. INNERACTIVE
APPIUM TIPS &
INNERACTIVE INTEGRATION

2. VP R&D

3. THE BIG
IDEA
Inneractive is a global independent
mobile ad exchange focused on
powering native and video ads

4. AT A
GLANCE
630M
90EMPLOYEES
UNIQUE USERS
2007FOUNDED
NEW YORK
LONDON
SAN
FRANCISCO
TEL AVIV
BEIJING
70%OF REVENUE
COMES FROM
THE US
AD REQUESTS
PROCESSED
PER MINUTE
70%IN-APP
SUPPLY
5M ANDROID
USERS
66% IPHONE
USERS
34%

5. 5m/min 150 ms
$$$$$
WHAT WE
DO?

6. GIL SHEPS
AUTOMATION DEVELOPER
2010 - 2011 – QA Engineer at MobileMax
2011 – 2012 - QA Engineer at Tabtale
2012 – 2015 - QA Engineer at Inneractive
2016 – Today – Automation Developer at Inneractive
Proud Dad to Yahav.

7.  Versatile modularity (cross products)
 Third party platform independency
 Stand-alone tool
 Java support
 Multi-platform
 No installation needed (third-party platform)
WHY?

8.  Owner
 Platform
 Where
 When
 Limitations
 Phase & Scope
 Budget
GETTING
READY

9. ALTERNATIVE WE CONSIDERED
Appthwack Appurify Saucelabs Local – Appium Perfecto Mobile Test Droid Device Anywhere
Server X not real time ? V X X
X
V
Client V ? X X V V V
Scripts Engine Cucamber, kalabash ? Appium Any language Appium Appium
GUI-based commands, Java
API, other test framework
including HP UFT, IBM
Rational, Selenium
Real Virtual
device
Real Real Virtual Cost per device Real Real Real
Notes
Isn't suitable to
server
Inability to
communicate
They have beta
program with real
devices
We'll have to
manage the
server ourself and
we don't want that
Cost per device
no
manual testing
sulotion
Could be another fee per used
devicestime
Links https://appthwack.com/
http://appurify.com
/
https://saucelabs.com
/
http://appium.io/
http://www.perfectom
obile.com/
http://testdroid.com/pricin
g
http://www.keynote.com/solutions/tes
ting/mobile-testing

10.  Owner - me
 Platform -Maven project using
Java using intellij
 Where - Sauce Labs / Perfecto Mobile
 When – Nightly / version release
 Limitations – Video / Unsupported
iOS elements
OUR
PRACTICE

11. INNERACTIVE PLATFROM
MAVEN FAILSAFE SPRING INFRA
API
MOBILE
TESTS

12.  MOAT viewability tracking
 Auto-redirect blocker
 Accurate data extraction
to enable better targeting
 Backward compatibility
with Android/iOS versions
 Access to all relevant ad
serving protocols (video
and rich media)
 Fully customizable native
advertising settings
 STORY video – innovative
in-feed video with
storytelling abilities

13. HOW APPIUM HELPS TEST
INNERACTIVE PRODUCTS
 Find and click on elements
 UI verification
 Native Event Listener
verification
 API verification
 Image recognition
 Webview verification
 UI verification
 API verification
 Image recognition
 Webview verification
 E2E flow (client-server)
 UI verification
 Webview verification
Mobile
web

14.  Appium is not enough
 Give identity to all elements
 Don’t use full path
 Use resetApp() after test
 Use one kind of timer
APPIUM
TIPS
https://github.com/appium/appium/releases
https://github.com/appium/java-client

15. ((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return document.getElementById(’iaAD').height");
((JavascriptExecutor) driver).executeScript("return document.getElementById(’iaAD'). width");
https://discuss.appium.io/t/is-javascriptexecutor-works-for-appium/3597
VERIFY
WEBVIEW
DIMENSIONS
* don’t forget to switch context

16. private String fileName = "/storage/emulated/legacy/config.txt";
private String fileNameZero = "/storage/emulated/0/config.txt";
@Override
public String readConfigFile() {
byte[] data;
try {
logger.info("trying to read from " + fileName);
data = appiumDriver.pullFile(fileName);
} catch (Exception e) {
try {
logger.info("trying to read from " + fileNameZero);
data = appiumDriver.pullFile(fileNameZero);
} catch (Exception e1) {
logger.info("trying to read from " + fileNameSuace);
data = appiumDriver.pullFile(fileNameSuace);
}
}
String logs = new String(data);
logger.info(logs);
return logs;
}
PULLFILE()

17. ((IOSDriver) appiumDriver).findElementByIosUIAutomation(asset).click();
((AndroidDriver) appiumDriver).currentActivity().equals(SETTINGNATIVEACTIVITY))
((AndroidDriver) appiumDriver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.HOME);
((AndroidDriver) appiumDriver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_BACK);
((AndroidDriver) appiumDriver).pressKeyCode(AndroidKeyCode.KEYCODE_APP_SWITCH);
https://github.com/appium/appium-ios-driver
https://github.com/appium/appium-android-driver
ANDROIDDRIVER &
IOSDRIVER

18. private void tryToClickOnAssetWithIDOrXpath(String asset, String UIElemnt) {
try {
((IOSDriver) appiumDriver).findElementByIosUIAutomation(asset).click();
} catch (NoSuchElementException e) {
appiumDriver.findElement(By.xpath("//" + UIElemnt + "[@name='" + asset + "'")).click();
}
}
http://testdroid.com/tech/appium-tip-18-how-to-use-xpath-locators-efficiently
FIND ELEMENT BY
XPATH - IOS

19. appiumDriver.manage().timeouts().setScriptTimeout(long time,TimeUnit unit);
appiumDriver.manage().timeouts(). pageLoadTimeout(long time,TimeUnit unit);
appiumDriver.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(long time,TimeUnit unit);
public ClientUtils waitForInternalBrowserToLoaded(Long timoutSec) {
changeToWebView(appiumDriver);
appiumDriver.manage().timeouts().pageLoadTimeout(timoutSec, TimeUnit.SECONDS);
changeToAppView(appiumDriver);
return this;
}
TIMEOUTS

20. ExpectedConditions.visibilityOfElementLocated
ExpectedConditions.presenceOfElementLocated
ExpectedConditions.urlContains
ExpectedConditions.elementToBeClickable
https://seleniumhq.github.io/selenium/docs/api/java/org/openqa/selenium/support/ui/ExpectedConditions.html
WEBDRIVERWAIT +
EXPECTEDCONDITIONS
@Override
public ClientUtils waitForActivity(final String activityName , long timeount) {
logger.info("waitForActivity Activity : " + activityName);
WebDriverWait uiWait = new WebDriverWait(appiumDriver, MINDAPPIUMDRIVERTIMEOUT);
uiWait.until(new Predicate<WebDriver>() {
@Override
public boolean apply(WebDriver input) {
if (((AndroidDriver) appiumDriver).currentActivity().equals(activityName)) {
return true;
}
return false;
}
});
return this;
}

21. RUNNING TESTS ON PERFECTO MOBILE

23. THANK YOU
GIL SHEPS
Automation Developer
Gils@inner-active.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/gil-sheps