CodeFest 2013. François Reynaud. — Tools for mobile automation are nothing special

IOS UI Automation

François Reynaud

Test engineer, eBay

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Agenda

• Introduction

• Selenium

• Native

• Hybrid

• Real device

• Scaling

François Reynaud- EBAY INTERNATIONAL

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Introduction

• EUQE

• Selenium committer

• History

• Current focus


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Selenium

• What selenium is about

– Browser automation tool

– Clean API, draft for the W3C

• Why Selenium for mobile testing ?

– API works for mobile

– API stability makes development easy

– Reusability


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Goal

Cut down regression time for the eBay IOS products.

• 4 Native apps

• Hybrid apps and mobile web

• reuse existing tools if possible

• open source ( = no eBay specific features )


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The project

Status : version 0.6

Visible on github

• https://github.com/ios-driver/ios-driver

Documentation

• http://ios-driver.github.com/ios-driver/

Getting help

• IRC : #ios-driver on freenode

• Google group : ios-driver


http://ios-driver.github.com/ios-driver/








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The team


Luke Inman Semerau

IPhone driver

Graham Abell

NativeDriver fork

François Reynaud

Grid2, TWIN

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Technical choices - Selenium

– No modification of the application

– Language / test framework shouldn’t matter

– A stable API / recognized is the key


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Native : Instruments


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Instruments – integration capabilities


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Design


Client Server

WebDriver API

ios-driver

Java

C#

Ruby

Python

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Writing tests


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Challenge 1 - content


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Challenge 2 - inspector


Hybrid - UIWebView

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WebKit Remote Debug Protocol


integration


Safari


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Real device

Not very different :

– Instruments works on real device

– WKRDP works on real device

Limitation :

– Cannot change global settings

– Need to handle app signing


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Scaling using Selenium Grid


Client

serverHubClient

CI

server

server

THANK YOU!

QUESTIONS?

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CodeFest 2013. François Reynaud. — Tools for mobile automation are nothing special