Native iPhone App Test Automation with Appiumby James Eisenhauer of @hubbubhealth

ABOUT ME

James "Jim" EisenhauerChief Quality Scientist, hubbub Health

● First program written on a TRS-80 in 1978 when I was 12● Computer Science dropout with a bachelor's degree in Psychology● Java Certified & ColdFusion 5.0 Certified...yes I said ColdFusion● Alphabet Soup - MBA, PMP, ITIL, SSGB● Graduate Certificate in Software Engineering from OGI● Army Vet-Airborne Ranger V Corps Long Range Reconnaissance and Patrol● Latest Hobby is Whisky! http://jimmyswhisky.github.com/

AGENDA

● Overview of current Native Automation Framework Scene

● Intro to Appium● Why I like Appium● Automating a test with Appium & Selenium

FRAMEWORKS● Hard to keep up with what is

going on.● Apple keeps breaking

frameworks● No clear leader or best

solution● Calabash seems to be gaining

popularity

FRAMEWORKS

Generally 2 schools of thought

Embedded HTTP server Integrate with Apple Instruments

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HTTP SERVER

APP

APPApple Instruments

Test Framework

Test Framework

Integrates with Apple Instruments

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APPApple Instruments

Appium

Utilizes the Webdriver JSON wire protocol

iphone

APPApple Instruments

Appium

Webdriver

● Open Source Project - http://www.appium.io● Sponsored by Sauce Labs and led by Jason Huggins - @hugs● Written in Node.js● Very active with multiple commits per day

WHY I LIKE APPIUM

● Uses Apple layer as integration○ forces learning apple way

■ useful if apple breaks your framework○ less likely apple will break your framework

● Uses Webdriver ○ integrates well with my web automation

framework○ nothing new to learn

● Led by Proven leader of open source projects○ this guy created Selenium so there is that..

● Has commercial backing & resources○ always nice to have paid resources on open source

projects

AUTOMATING WITH APPIUM

* Sample code above in java for you slow people. Demo will be in Ruby

DEMO

● Install● Write a test● Run a test

Demo & CI Tips

View app elements

Reset app state (I think this was implemented in Appium this week)

#uninstall app from simulatorcd '/Users/qauser/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/6.1/Applications/' rm -rf *

Command Line build appxcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator6.1 -configuration Debug clean build

Close simulatorosascript -e 'tell app "iPhone Simulator" to quit'

THANK YOU!!!!!

Questions?