Mobile WebDriver Selendroid

Mobile WebDriver Selendroid

Michael Palotas & Dominik Dary Productivity & Test Engineering Europe 2014-01-17 Nokia Here Unconference

AGENDA

1.  Facts about eBay 2.  Selenium 3.  Mobile Automation Requirements 4.  Selendroid 5.  Borderless Test Automation

Mobile WebDriver Selendroid 2

FACTS ABOUT EBAY

EBAY INC.

MICHAEL PALOTAS - EBAY INTERNATIONAL 4

EBAY INC. FACTS

• Founded in 1995

• Based in San Jose, California

• ~30000 Employees worldwide


Mobile Facts Mobile Fun Facts

162,000,000 downloads of eBay Inc’s apps

Every 15 seconds, a pair of ladies shoes is purchased on eBay Mobile in the UK.

Mobile transaction volume 2012: 13 billion USD – overall increase of 120 % from 2011! 2013: expectation is to transact 20 billion USD

4.2 million items are listed with using mobile apps every week

500 USD mobile transaction volume every second

Every week, more than 11,000 cars and 690,000 car parts are sold through eBay’s mobile apps.

MOBILE FACTS


Source: http://www.ebayinc.com/system/download_links/eBay_MobileMomentum_Facts_052913_0.pdf?download=1

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WHO ARE WE?

SELENIUM FOR MOBILE

Michael Palotas Head of Productivity & Test Engineering

Dominik Dary Software Engineer

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DISCLAIMER

• Test Automation is Software Development

• End-to-End Tests are slow

• Perfect vs. Good Enough – A Context where

Time to Market Matters


SELENIUM

WHAT IS SELENIUM?

Selenium automates browsers that’s it


WHAT DO WE DO WITH SELENIUM?

End to End functional test automation


Unit Tests

E2E Test

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Manual Tests

Integration Tests

Selenium space

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SELENIUM


JSON WIRE PROTOCOL

Client

Java

C#

Ruby

Python i.e. Firefox driver

Server

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CLIENT


• Is seen as „Selenium“ by the users

• Is called by the test framework or the CI server

• Generates HTTP requests which are received by the

server

• Supported languages:

Java, C#, Python, Ruby, PHP, JS

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SERVER

• Receives HTTP requests

• Start and teardown of browser

• Translates requests into browser specific commands

• Communicates back to the client


SCALING USING SELENIUM GRID


Client

server GRID Hub Client

CI

server

server

TECHNICAL HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE TEST INFRASTRUCTURE

Our virtualized test infrastructure hosted on VMware vSphere

Selenium Webdriver / Grid

Testing Environment

Test type?

End-to-EndTests

API Call

DB validation

eBay web front end

Clone Source Files

Run test via TestNG

Build via Maven

eBay API

Start the Test Suitevia Brower

View the Test Session and the

Result in the Browser

Version Control System

Continuous Integration System (Jenkins)

Agile Team

Automated Test Development

via IDE

QE Engineer

Database

Tests can be started on Grid

+Grid Hub


MOBILE AUTOMATION REQUIREMENTS

• Use the same approach and infrastructure as web

• Use the Load Balancer / Resource Management Features of Selenium Grid

• Manage multiple applications / versions / languages

• No modification of mobile app

• Mobile App Runtime Inspection Support

• No jailbreak / rooting of devices


ANOTHER AUTOMATION TOOL?

Android • Calabash-

android • Robotium • Appium • UiAutomator • Espresso

iOS • Calabash-ios • Frank • UIAutomation • Appium • KeepItFunctional


Selendroid & ios-driver

MOBILE WEBDRIVER SELENDROID

SELENDROID

Open sourced on github: – https://github.com/selendroid

Documentation:

• https://selendroid.io Committers:

– eBay, Salesforce and Facebook Getting help

– IRC : #selendroid on freenode


SELENDROID FEATURES

• The only mobile WebDriver that supports native & hybrid apps and testing the mobile web on Android versions (API 10 to 19)

• Full compatibility with the JSON Wire Protocol. • The app under test must not be modified • Interacts simultaneously with multiple Android devices • Supports hot plugging of hardware devices • Selenium Grid Support for scaling • Advanced Gestures are supported • Built in Inspector to simplify test case development


CLIENT / SERVER ARCHITECTURE


CLIENT

SERVER JSON Wire Protocol

BROWSER MOBILE

selendroid ios-driver

TESTING NATIVE APPS

• Elements are found by locators • Found element are used for different interactions

• Example


NATIVE DEMO

http://youtu.be/074BnGV0mS0


TESTING HYBRID APPS

• Built in support for testing WebViews with WebDriver

• Example:


HYBRID DEMO

http://youtu.be/FGsKI6esKpw


TESTING MOBILE WEB

• Built in support for testing Mobile Web with AndroidDriver-App

• Official replacement of Selenium’s AndroidDriver

• Example:


MOBLE WEB DEMO

http://goo.gl/41uvAx


SELENDROID ARCHITECTURE


WebDriver Client

HTTP & WebDriver JSON wire protocol

Selendroid-standalone

Selendroid Standalone

Driver

Android SDK

HTTP

USB

SELENDROID ARCHITECTURE


TEST: DEVICE VS. EMULATOR

• Hardware devices and Emulators can be used • Hardware devices are much faster • Android devices will be identified automatically • Hot plugging of hardware devices is supported


SELENDROID INSPECTOR

• View hierarchy • View UI element properties • UI screenshot with view locator • Record the click actions • Display the html of a web view • XPath helper


SELENDROID INSPECTOR IN ACTION


http://youtu.be/JKZeF3eHljo

BORDERLESS TEST AUTOMATION

BORDERLESS TEST AUTOMATION

• Our business is borderless à test automation needs to be as well

• Use the same approach and infrastructure for web and mobile


SAME API FOR WEB AND MOBILE

A regular Web Test Case


An iPhone app test An Android app test

CROSS PLATFORM DEMO

Uses an iOS app, web page and an Android app in one scenario.


WE ARE LOOKING FOR

CONTRIBUTORS


Thank You! Questions or Comments?


Dominik Dary Email: [email protected] Twitter: @dominikdary

Fork us at Github: - http://selendroid.io - http://github.com/ios-driver

Michael Palotas Email: [email protected]

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