Selenium and Appium are tools for automating testing of web and mobile applications. Selenium was originally used for testing web applications in browsers but as applications moved to mobile, Appium was created to allow the same tests to run on both Android and iOS platforms. Appium works by proxying commands to the appropriate automation tools on each platform. The presentation demonstrates sample code for testing a mobile app using Appium and discusses how physical robots can also be used for automated testing.

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

2. A brief history of
test automation...

3. 2004:

4. Google Maps,
Gmail,
Rails,
etc...

5. aka

6. “AJAX”

7. “Web 2.0”

8. “It’s now safe to use
JavaScript!”

9. But how do you test it?

10. With Selenium!

11. What’s Selenium?

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

14. Today:

15. It’s popular!

17. More popular than
the competition!

19. But now...

20. the game has changed.

21. s/desktop/mobile/

22. 2007: mobile

23. 2008: mobile

24. 2009: mobile

25. 2010: mobile

26. 2011: mobile

27. 2012: mobile

28. mobile

29. !

30. But how do you test it?

32. What’s Appium?

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

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

35. Appium Philosophy

36. Rule 1
Test the same app you submit
to the marketplace

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

38. Rule 3
Use a standard automation
specification and API

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

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

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

42. Selenium WebDriver is a
W3C working draft

43. Appium architecture

44. Appium is an HTTP server
that creates and handles
WebDriver sessions

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

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

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

50. (just like how Selenium started...)

51. Demo!

52. Sample code:

53. 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:
''
};

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

55. 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();
});

56. Now for something (not)
completely different

57. Remember when I said
“like a robot”?

59. Well...

61. 2011
2011

62. 2012

63. 2013
2013

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

65. Demo!

66. Sauce Labs?

69. Servers
Time
Unit of Work

70. Servers
Time
Unit of Work

71. saucelabs.com
@saucelabs