Top Best Practices for Successful Mobile Test Automation

This document provides an overview of Appium, an open-source test automation tool for mobile applications. It allows testing of native, hybrid, and mobile web apps across iOS and Android platforms. Appium uses the Selenium WebDriver API and supports many programming languages. It can test on both simulators/emulators and real devices. While it has some limitations like no image comparison, its benefits include easy setup, cross-platform capability, and integration with continuous integration and device farms.

The slides cover the introduction to Appium, why is Appium used, Basic concepts, and terminologies used in Appium, Drivers supported by Appium.

The document compares three mobile automation testing tools: Appium, Calabash, and Robotium. Appium provides a cross-platform solution that supports Android, iOS, and FirefoxOS. It uses the Selenium WebDriver JSON protocol and can run tests written in various languages. Calabash consists of Android and iOS libraries for interacting with mobile apps via gestures and assertions. It also supports testing HTML5 parts of hybrid apps. Robotium is an Android testing framework that simplifies writing functional tests using minimal app knowledge. It handles multiple app activities and integrates with build tools.

Appium is a cross-platform solution for automating native and hybrid mobile app testing on iOS and Android using the WebDriver protocol. It allows tests to run on simulators, emulators, and real devices for both native and hybrid apps. Appium uses UIAutomation for iOS and UIAutomator or Selendroid for Android to drive tests by mapping WebDriver commands to platform-specific APIs.

Speaker: Karim Fanadka, HPE Software Session Slides: http://www.srijan.net/webinar/building-high-performance-qa-team/ Karim is a DevTest manager at HPE Software and his team is responsible for testing their new SaaS product, the StormRunner Load. In this webinar, Karim shares his experience of building a QA team that is agile, efficient, and uses the latest testing frameworks. He will also talk about continuous testing, automation, test based analytics and hotfixes. Karim start's off the challenges in agile QA and then moves on to solving these challenges. The best part is when he shares the trick to delivering to production every 1.5 months, even for a high pressure enterprise product. The Q/A session also brings out some very interesting topics, going into greater details and various suggestions that you can implement for your own QA teams.

This document discusses automating tests for native mobile applications. It begins by describing the challenges of testing iOS applications using Apple's UI Automation and Instruments tools. It then reviews two attempted approaches for automation that were brittle and difficult to use at scale. The document advocates for using Appium, an open source test automation tool that allows controlling native and hybrid applications using the WebDriver protocol. It provides an example of using Appium to automate tests for a native iOS application and discusses the tool's benefits and limitations. In closing, it outlines opportunities to further enhance Appium's capabilities and integrations.

Selenium is an open source tool used for automating web application testing. It was created in 2004 by Jason Huggins and supports recording and playback of test cases in browsers like Firefox. Selenium has four main components - Selenium IDE for recording and playback of tests, Selenium Remote Control for running tests on multiple browsers, Selenium WebDriver for direct browser control, and Selenium Grid for parallel testing on different machines. The latest version of Selenium is 3.0.

This document provides an overview and demo of Perfecto Mobile's Continuous Quality Lab (CQ Lab) automation testing capabilities using Selenium and Appium. It discusses the CQ Lab architecture, how to set up automation tests using the desired capabilities, different mobile application types, and object identification. It then demonstrates creating a sample automation project and script in Eclipse, running the test, and reviewing the execution report in the Perfecto Mobile cloud platform.

Appium is a tool for automating native and hybrid mobile apps. This document discusses how to set up an Appium project to test Android apps. It covers installing Appium and related tools on Windows, setting desired capabilities, locating elements, performing actions, validating results, and running tests. The goal is to create an IntelliJ project that uses Appium to test a sample Android app by interacting with app elements and verifying the app's behavior.

Mobile application testing focuses on testing the functionality and features of mobile applications. It is performed by application vendors. Mobile testing focuses on testing the native features of mobile devices like calls, SMS, Bluetooth, etc. It is performed by handset makers. A simulator mimics the outward behavior of a target but not its internal state, while a simulation accurately models both the outward behavior and underlying internal state of a target. Types of mobile application testing include usability, compatibility, interface, services, low-level resource, performance, and operational testing. The general structure of a mobile testing framework includes application packages, instrumentation, test runners, and test packages. Common bugs in mobile applications include critical bugs, block bugs, major bugs, and minor

Appium is an open source test automation framework for testing native and hybrid mobile apps. It allows writing tests in any language and on any platform to test the same app submitted to app stores. Appium uses the WebDriver protocol to remotely control apps using UIAutomator on Android and Instruments on iOS. This allows testing apps on real devices and emulators with a single test script. Appium supports platforms include Android, iOS, and mobile web apps and can test apps on a local device or cloud-based services like SauceLabs.

The document discusses automation testing for mobile apps using Appium. Appium allows for cross-platform mobile app testing by using the same tests across iOS and Android platforms. It functions by proxying commands to the devices to run tests using technologies like UIAutomation for iOS and UiAutomator for Android. While useful for local testing, Appium has limitations for scaling tests in continuous integration environments, where services like Sauce Labs are better suited.

This tutorial explains in detail How to install Appium with step by step procedure and How to Write Appium Program using Real Device and Emulator.

To celebrate the recent launch of version 1.0 earlier this month, join us for a panel discussion with Appium's Chief Architect Jonathan Lipps, Core Appium Contributor Matthew Edwards, and Appium creator Dan Cuellar.

This document provides information about Appium, an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps. It discusses Appium's architecture and features, how to set up Appium for testing iOS and Android apps, different language clients available and requirements for writing tests in Java. The document also covers new capabilities and strategies introduced in Appium, such as TouchActions and MultiTouchActions.

Android UI Testing with Appium This presentation covers: - how appium works - setting up test development environment with AndroidStudio - running tests - UI automation best practices - common problems with automation

We develop almost identical apps for both Android and iOS. Maintaining separate test suites becomes an overhead over a period of time as the test suites begin to grow. We hare now gradually moving our test infrastructure to Appium so that we can have a single test repo which is easy to maintain.

Watch a live presentation at http://offer.bitbar.com/best-practices-for-devops-in-mobile-app-testing In essence, the core of DevOps methodology aims to speed up the app development delivery and process by getting devs and operation specialists to collaborate throughout the end-to-end app development and deployment process. Stay tuned and join our upcoming webinars at http://bitbar.com/testing/webinars/

The document discusses using Jenkins for continuous load testing and mobile test automation. It describes how Jenkins can be used to automate testing across sprints in an agile methodology. Specifically, it outlines how to leverage Jenkins to run functional tests continuously and repurpose those tests for performance and load testing. This helps ensure applications are thoroughly tested before each release.

Frank Cohen's session from the STARWest (Software Test Automation) conference, October 2014. Building mobile apps and Ajax apps effectively requires a blended approach to test automation. 

Frank Cohen, CTO/Founder at Appvance, shows how to leverage the best application performance test methodology with test tools to deliver excellent Ajax, iOS and Android apps. 

Learn how to: 
* Effectively choose a mobile testing method for Agile shops 
* Reduce costs by choosing the best tools (Appium, Jenkins, Appvance PerformanceCloud) 
* Scale-up your mobile testing to thousands of test suites automatically 
* The mix-and-match mobile testing methodology for just-in-time performance testing

The Container Store uses AppDynamics in their development lifecycle to: 1) Install AppDynamics in test environments and build automated functional and performance test suites to baseline metrics and alert on deviations. 2) Empower their development and QA teams by giving them insights into the test environment and custom reports on any metrics. 3) Establish best practices like monitoring all applications, testing continuously, and performance testing early to detect issues before production and expedite remediation.

Frank Cohen, CTO/Founder at Appvance, teaches developers and testers how to become more closely aligned with easily deployable and configurable tools such as Jenkins CI and performance testing platforms. 

Learn how to: 
* Merge Agile SDLC and Performance Testing 
* Speed-up test operations by configuring Jenkins for automatic build, deploy, and tests 
* Instantly identify functional and performance issues using Jenkins as a performance dashboard 
* Use effective choices in Jenkins deployment – in the cloud, hosted, or in your datacenter

Developers have embraced Continuous Integration for years and it has proven their value for accelerating software production for Web environments. However, for mobile developers, it’s been a slow road to adopting many of these same practices. In this webinar, Kevin Rohling (Emberlight, Ship.io) and Kristian Meier (Sauce Labs) will cover best practices in implementing a mobile CI system and demonstrate how you can easily build, test and deploy mobile apps.

Shesank Dasari is a test engineer with over 4 years of experience in software testing. He has expertise in testing mobile and web applications using Selenium and Appium, as well as SAP testing using Worksoft Certify. Some of the projects he has worked on include testing SAP applications for Weill Cornell Medical College, mobile apps for MIRI Systems, and spend analytics reporting for Whirlpool. He is proficient in various testing tools and techniques including test automation, defect management, and performance testing.