Appium is a popular open source mobile application UI automation framework. These are the slide from Selenium Camp 2016 in Kiev.

1. MOBILE AUTOMATION
MADE AWESOME

2. ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dan Cuellar
@thedancuellar
• Creator of Appium
• Head of Software Testing at FOODit
• Previously at Shazam, Zoosk, and Microsoft
• BS in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon

5. THE MOST TERRIFYING 5 WORDS IN TESTING

6. THIS ALL SOUNDS FAMILIAR

7. EVERYTHING IS NOT AWESOME

8. TIME TO SPREAD THE WORD

9. WHAT IS APPIUM
• An implementation of the Selenium JSON-wire protocol that
controls native and hybrid iOS and Android application
• The most popular open source mobile functional testing
framework

10. APPIUM PHILOSOPHY
• Use standardized and sanctioned APIs and techniques
• Code in the language of your choice
• Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, node.js, PHP, and more
• Do not modify the application under test
• Keep it free and open source

11. HOW DOES IT WORK? UIAutomation /
UIAutomator
Appium
Server
Test Script
JSON-Wire Protocol Request
JSON-Wire Protocol Response
HTTP

12. BY THE NUMBERS
In the last 3 years
• Over 3,000 Stars, 2,000 Forks on GitHub
• Over 150 Contributors and 5,000 commits
• Over 150,000 downloads of Appium 1.0
• Over 3,000 issues closed

13. @Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
// set up appium
File app = new File("/path/to/your/TestApp.app");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", ”9.1");
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "iPhone 6");
capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
driver = new IOSDriver<WebElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
}
THE CODE – IOS SETUP

14. @Before
public void setUp() throws Exception {
// set up appium
File app = new File(”/path/to/my/test-app.apk");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Android Emulator");
capabilities.setCapability("automationName",”Android");
capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", ”com.yourcompany.testapp");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", ".HomeScreenActivity");
driver = new AndroidDriver<WebElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"),
capabilities);
}
THE CODE – ANDROID SETUP

15. WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.className("UIAButton"));
WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//UIATextField[1]"));
WebElement el = driver.findElement(MobileBy.AccessibilityId("Done"));
THE CODE – FINDING ELEMENTS

16. el.click();
el.sendKeys("Hello World");
driver.swipe(sliderLocation.getX(), sliderLocation.getY(),
sliderLocation.getX()-100, sliderLocation.getY(), 1000);
THE CODE – ACTIONS

17. Each webview in your app is a context. Change context and automate as
you would a webpage using regular selenium syntax.
driver.context(contextName);
WebElement el = driver.findElement(By.cssSelector(".awesome"));
el.click();
AUTOMATING WEB-VIEWS

18. WHAT’S NEW IN APPIUM 1.5?
• Complete rewrite of the entire codebase
• Continuous Integration and Unit Tests
• Command line arguments are mostly capabilities now
• Code of Conduct and Governance

19. WHY REWRITE?
• 3 years of patches and organic growth
• Many complaints about instability
• Code was not modular enough
• Old and confusing ES5 code
• Callback Hell
• Poorly Tested

23. WHAT’S COMING NEXT
• Windows Phone and Windows 10 application support
• New GUIs
• Multiple New iOS Back-ends
• Android backend rewrite using UIAutomator 2
• Better docs and onboarding material
• Appium Foundation

24. WINDOWS SUPPORT

25. https://github.com/2gis/Winium

28. NEW IOS BACK-ENDS
• WebDriverAgent
• https://github.com/facebook/WebDriverAgent
• Multiple Simulators
• All Applications
• XCUITest
• Created by Apple
• Better support for future versions of iOS

30. ROBOTS

31. HOW DOES IT WORK?
• Calibrate the robot to map points in the physical world to points on a
device screen
• Run an app on the device with Appium that can tell you what
coordinates are being touched
• Touch three places on the device and record the physical and device-
centric coordinates
• Build a matrix to translate any point between the two systems
• Intercept touch actions with the Appium Server and send them to
the robot

32. THE MATH

33. PERSONAL TAKEAWAY
“Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact:
Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that
were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it,
you can build your own things that other people can use.
Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.”
-Steve Jobs

34. MORE INFO
• Website: http://www.appium.io
• Slack: appium.slack.com
• Forum: discuss.appium.io
• GitHub: http://www.github.com/appium/appium