What's New With Appium? From 1.0 to Now
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Developed by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source contributors, Appium is a cross-platform automation framework for testing mobile web, native, and hybrid applications. In this webinar, hear the latest about Appium version 1.3.x from project lead Jonathan Lipps as he takes us on a tour of the stability improvements and features the team has added since the Appium 1.0 release back in May of 2014.
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What's New With Appium? From 1.0 to Now
- 1. What’s new with appium?! From 1.0 to now Jonathan Lipps! Director of Ecosystem Development, Sauce Labs Inc!12.17.2014!
- 2. @jlipps I hack on Appium and other projects with an awesome team of open- source devs at Sauce Labs. @jlipps Hi.! @AppiumDevs appium/appium
- 3. 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?
- 4. 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.!
- 5. Getting Started! • Main site: http://appium.io! • Discussion forums: http://discuss.appium.io! • GitHub: https://github.com/appium/appium!
- 6. Real devices Simulators Native Apps Hybrid Apps Platform Support! Mobile Web Apps
- 7. Android UiAutomator! Architecture! WebDriver Interface iOS UIAutomation! Powered by Instruments Selendroid! For older Android devices
- 9. 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!
- 10. What’s new? Platforms! • iOS 8! - [OS X Yosemite / Xcode 6] • iOS 8.1! • Android 4.4W! • Android 5.0!
- 12. 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)!
- 13. driver.getContextHandles() Get Contexts! For webviews Java Pydriver.contexts driver.contexts(cb) JS
- 14. 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!
- 15. What’s new? New Locator Strategies!
- 16. What’s new? Android Webviews!
- 17. What’s new? Android Browser!
- 18. 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”
- 20. 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)
- 24. What’s new? On Sauce! • All Appium platforms supported • New platform configurator for easy capability discovery
- 27. 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!
- 28. Q & A! Hit me with your best shot…