What’s new with appium?!From 1.0 to now

Jonathan Lipps!Director of Ecosystem Development, Sauce Labs Inc!12.17.2014!

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I hack on Appium and other projects with an awesome team of open-source devs at Sauce Labs.

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Hi.!@AppiumDevs

appium/appium

appium in Review!What are we talking about?

What’s new?!A tour of useful things

What’s coming?!You’ll be excited about these

Agenda

Q & A!What are you wondering about?

The Mobile Automation Solution

•  Opinionated philosophy

•  Use any language and test framework

•  Compatible with Selenium/WebDriver

•  Large and thriving community

appium is an open-source, cross-platform automation platform that supports native, hybrid, and mobile apps.!

Getting Started!

•  Main site: http://appium.io!•  Discussion forums: http://discuss.appium.io!•  GitHub: https://github.com/appium/appium!

Real devices

Simulators

Native Apps

Hybrid Apps

Platform Support!

Mobile Web Apps

Android UiAutomator! Architecture!

WebDriver Interface

iOS UIAutomation!Powered by Instruments

Selendroid!For older Android devices

What’s new?!Since 1.0

What’s new?!

•  1.0 released May 3, 2014!•  Since then:!-  10 releases (current release is 1.3.4) -  1900 commits

•  New language clients!•  New features!•  New platforms!•  New contributors and community members!

What’s new? Platforms!

•  iOS 8!-  [OS X Yosemite / Xcode 6]

•  iOS 8.1!•  Android 4.4W!•  Android 5.0!

Demo!iOS 8.1,

Android 5.0

What’s new? Language Clients!

•  Why Appium clients?!•  Java (http://github.com/appium/java-client)!•  Python (http://github.com/appium/python-client)!•  Ruby (http://github.com/appium/ruby_lib)!•  JavaScript (http://github.com/admc/wd)!•  PHP (http://github.com/appium/php-client)!•  C# (http://github.com/appium/appium-dotnet-driver)!•  Perl (http://github.com/appium/perl-client)!•  Objective C (http://github.com/appium/selenium-objective-c)!

driver.getContextHandles() Get Contexts!For webviews

Java

Py driver.contexts

driver.contexts(cb) JS

What’s new? Features!

•  Full XPath support for Android!•  New locator strategies!-  find_by_ios_uiautomation -  find_by_android_uiautomator

•  Android webview support (4.4+)!•  Android browser support (4.4+)!•  New desired capabilities!•  New commands!

What’s new? New Locator Strategies!

What’s new? Android Webviews!

What’s new? Android Browser!

What’s new? Capabilities!

•  New capability structure!-  Will be adopted for Selenium 4 -  platformName, platformVersion, deviceName, app -  platformName, platformVersion, deviceName, browserName

•  autoWebview!•  (Android) avdLaunchTimeout, avdReadyTimeout •  (Android) unicodeKeyboard •  (iOS) sendKeyStrategy -  “oneByOne”, “grouped”, “setValue”

Demo!unicodeKeyboard

What’s new? Commands!

•  (iOS) driver.pullFile(filePath) •  (iOS) driver.pullFolder(folderPath) •  (Android) driver.startActivity(appPackage, appActivity) •  (Android) driver.openNotifications() •  driver.hideKeyboard(strategy) -  (iOS) “pressKey”, “swipeDown”, “tapOutside”

•  (Android) driver.setNetworkConnection(state) -  NetworkConnection.ConnectionType.AIRPLANE_MODE

•  (Android) driver.ignoreUnimportantViews(compress)

What’s new? TouchActions!

What’s new? MultiTouchActions!

Demo!DragNDrop,

openNotifications

What’s new? On Sauce!

•  All Appium platforms supported •  New platform configurator for easy capability discovery

Demo!Platform Configurator

What’s coming?!

To the future!

What’s coming?!

•  Appium CI!•  Core code cleanup and rewrite!•  iOS 8.2 support!•  WatchKit integration? (Watch simulator?)!•  Espresso integration!•  Windows phone support!•  Appium GUI support!•  More comprehensive docs and tutorials!•  Plenty of new platform-specific features!

Q & A!Hit me with your best

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@jlipps

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@AppiumDevs

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