For teams developing & maintaining mobile apps for both Android & iOS platforms, functional testing is a huge challenge. With the advent of Agile practices, behavior driven testing has gained more popularity. The current process of updating apps over the air is very easy, raising users’ expectations of new features delivered sooner. Appium has made it easier for teams to test their apps for multiple platforms. However, it alone cannot solve the challenges around implementing behavior driven development & frequent UI/functionality updates. So we created a robust Test Framework combining the best features of Appium, Cucumber-jvm & Page Objects. Cucumber-jvm is a key tool in implementing BDD. Page Objects is a framework design approach for maintaining & accessing components & controls spread across test scenarios. Appium provides a JSON bridge that allows test cases to be written once, and run for multiple mobile platforms. Integrating the powerful features of these 3 tools, we can create a powerful framework that is easy to setup, use, scale and maintain.

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Mobile Test Automation
Framework
Shankar Garg
Senior Consultant - Testing

3. • Problem Statement
• Features of Test
Automation Framework
• Tech stack
• Demo 1
• Did we still miss
something?
• Demo 2
• Final Solution
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4. • Back in the day, one bad customer experience
would spread via word-of-mouth and reach few
Customers.
• Thanks to Social Media platforms like Twitter ,
Facebook etc. however, that same word-of-mouth
now travels at the speed of light and reaches
million users.
• The other major difference is App Store ratings.
Imagine if a poor review were stamped directly on
the packing of a product.
• These Social Media Ratings and Likes can prove to
be a make or break for the brand and product.
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Why Quality is important

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Current Mobile Landscape
• Frequent app releases:
• Ease of upgrading apps over the air
• Increased user expectations about
quicker releases (for bug fixes and new
features)
• OS updates like Android M and iOS 9.

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Challenges for Mobile Test Teams
• Mobile Test Teams have to repeat
the entire test cycle for each of the
following:
• Multiple OS – Android and iOS
• Multiple Hardware – Samsung, Apple
• Lot of Regression Testing.
• Test teams are continuously tasked
with testing entire applications
faster and more often.

7. Solution – Mobile Test Automation
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• Appium is Mobile Test Automation Tool
for android and iOS.
• Appium has made life easy for Mobile
Automation Teams.
• Appium has enabled test teams to use the
same code to test on
• Multiple OS
• Multiple hardware

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Challenges for Automation Teams
• Appium is for mobile automation only
• What about Test Framework?
• Maintainability
• Reusability

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What about Agile Testing ?
With the advent of Agile practices, Behavior
Driven Development/Testing has also
gained more popularity.

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Mobile Test Automation Framework -Features
• Non Technical people can help in Test Automation.
• Requirements are directly converted into Test cases ( to
eliminate difference in understanding of Dev and QA)
• Supports multiple OS i.e. iOS, Android etc. ( Same tool can
be used to write test case for iOS and Android)
• Inter portability of same test cases on Multiple platform (
Same test case can be run for iOS and Android).
• Maintainability - How easy it is to change/update a test
case
• Re-usability - How easy it is to use existing code to write
new test cases

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What’s the Solution:
• No tool alone can solve the problem mentioned
till now.
• What is needed is, the combination of tools
which can address these problems when
combined together.

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Tech Stack
• Java
• Maven
• Appium
• Cucumber
• GitHub
• Jenkins

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Why Cucumber?
• Cucumber Enables Non Technical team members to help
in Test Automation (by writing feature files).
• Cucumber can be implemented in multiple languages. i.e.
Java, Ruby and JavaScript.
• Cucumber can be used to implement projects in wide
business areas like enterprise web, Mobile, Web Services.
• Cucumber is very easy to install, implement and learn.

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Why Appium?
• Support for multiple platforms iOS, Android and Firefox
OS.
• Support for Native, Web and Hybrid Applications.
• Can be implemented in multiple languages Java, PHP,
Python, Ruby, C# etc.
• No Additional Library added to AUT.
• Can be implemented with any Testing Framework i.e.
JUnit, TestNG, Cucumber etc.

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Demo
• Application Under Test
• Feature File
• pom.xml
• Glue Code
• Appium Code
• Hooks

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What we have achieved
• Non Technical people can help in Test Automation.
• Requirements are directly converted into Test cases ( to
eliminate difference in understanding of Dev and QA)
• Supports multiple OS i.e. iOS, Android etc. ( Same tool can
be used to write test case for iOS and Android)
• Inter portability of same test cases on Multiple platform (
Same test case can be run for iOS and Android).
• Maintainability ( How easy it is to change/update a test
case)
• Re-usability ( How easy it is to use existing code to write
new test cases)

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Is there a problem still?
• Locators :are spread across file and if some one needs to
change a locator then he will have to make changes
at multiple places.
• we face a risk of some locators not being updated at all.
• To know at what all places the particular locator was
defined is the biggest challenge.
• Scope :There is no scope defined for a file, it may contain
function for entire application or for some part only. if a
new team member joins, then he will face hard time
finding a function already defined.

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Page Objects:
• Framework design approach for maintaining &
accessing components & controls spread across
test scenarios.
• Page Object creates a DSL for our tests.
• if something changes on the page we don't need
to change the test, we just need to update the
object that represents the page.

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Page Objects - Guidelines
• Each Page object Scope will be limited to one
page of the application only.
• All locators related to that page will be defined in
the page object ( all locators will be grouped at
one place, possibly on the Top so that it is easy to
find and update these).
• All behaviors associated to a page will be
described in the page object as functions.

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Demo – Page Objects

21. Page Objects –Benefits
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• The beauty of these files is that just by looking at
the code, you can relate for which part of the
application these files belong to.
• How easy it becomes to change and at the same
time how easy it is to add new functionality.

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What we have achieved
• Non Technical people can help in Test Automation.
• Requirements are directly converted into Test cases ( to
eliminate difference in understanding of Dev and QA)
• Supports multiple OS i.e. iOS, Android etc. ( Same tool can
be used to write test case for iOS and Android)
• Inter portability of same test cases on Multiple platform (
Same test case can be run for iOS and Android).
• Maintainability ( How easy it is to change/update a test
case)
• Re-usability ( How easy it is to use existing code to write
new test cases)

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Q & A

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Thank You!!

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