Appium vs Appium with Perfecto

Editor's Notes

• #3 Before we get started with the Agenda, just a quick housekeeping item…at the end we should have a few mins for questions and answers. There is a panel in the webinar named Q&A to submit questions during the webinar, so if you think of something, please ask. If we are unable to get to finish questions for any reason, then we will send out the info to all attendees.
• #6 The Perfecto CQ (Continuous Quality) Lab platform is a cloud architected quality platform. One lab for all digital platforms, from browsers, desktops to mobile to IoT We have capabilities to mimic the real user environment with our Wind Tunnel Including Location, orientation, network conditions like 3g 4g, and everything you need to reproduce your users environment While providing Quality visibility and trending with our reporting and analytics for fast feedback loops Completely accessible/embeddable in your SDLC process and tools Accessible from coding to customer support To integrated in Any test tool, CI server, test framework, IDE and location
• #7 Perfecto is committed to helping enterprises leverage existing practices, assets and expertise Perfecto Mobile strives integrate with popular tools used by enterprises. Customers can leverage existing assets and expertise . Our support for various tools is constantly expanding. Some customers also take advantage of our published API to create custom extensions to different frameworks.
• #9 We will focus on two testing environments in today’s webinar that are supported by Perfecto Mobile: Selenium RemoteWebDriver and Appium. (For you more advanced users, already familiar with the old WebDriver: RemoteWebDriver is an implementation class of the WebDriver interface that a test script developer can use to execute their test scripts via the RemoteWebDriver server on a remote machine.)
• #10 There are three types of mobile applications – Web (regular desktop/mobile browsers), Hybrid and Native. The standard Selenium RemoteWebDriver allows us to test desktop browsers; and Perfecto Mobile has extended this to include browsers running on mobile devices. Perfecto Mobile recommends using: Selenium RemoteWebDriver for testing web applications (regular desktop and mobile browsers) Appium for native applications, and Selenium RemoteWebDriver or Appium for hybrid applications
• #12 Identifying objects on the different types of websites and mobile applications can be done in multiple ways. We will just focus on using the following, according to Perfecto Mobile best practices: the DOM objects for testing web applications Appium framework for testing Native applications, and the Perfecto Mobile framework for testing hybrid applications The Framework and use of the Object Spy will enable us to find, view properties, and perform interactions on the application using objects (such as a clicking on something on the device screen, selecting an image or text element, and setting text in an edit field). (For beginner users, a little more about identifying objects: Application User Interfaces are drawn to the screen based on a definition (that’s provided by the application) of how and where to draw the different UI Elements. The definition is a hierarchy of available UI Elements that can be described as an Object Tree. The Object Tree for Web applications uses a standard set of UI Element types to describe how to draw the User Interface. This is the DOM tree and the UI Elements in the standard can be used to describe any website or web application.) The Perfecto Mobile and Appium Frameworks: When looking at the world of mobile applications, it is not as simple as just Desktop Browsers. Apple has its own proprietary set of UI Elements and this is different from the proprietary set used by Android. Perfecto Mobile created a framework that allows us to translate the competing UI Elements of the different application UI sets into a “more generic” set of UI Elements and describe the UI structure of an application using these generic UI Elements. This is the Perfecto Mobile framework Object Tree. The Perfecto Mobile framework identifies the objects in the application with the same standard. This means that the object tree representation of the elements will be the same on both iOS and Android applications. So this allow us to use the same objects for both Android and iOS applications, also referred to as ScriptOnce.) This will save time with not only creating automation scripts, but will provide easier and less time consuming maintenance of scripts. Appium, that we use to test native apps, references the UI Elements using the names provided by the proprietary description files. This is the Appium framework Object Tree. The Appium framework uses two different object tree representations – UI Automator for Android and UI Automation for iOS. This means that when we develop our automation test, according to this mode of work, we will need to create two separate tests (one for Android and another for iOS).
• #13 How does it work?
• #14 The first picture is inside one of Perfecto’s Secure Datacenters, with racks of servers and devices locked in cabinets. Notice in the second picture, that we have real devices connected, via a USB cable, to the Perfecto Handset Server (or HSS). The HSS, which is responsible for managing all device connectivity, gets its commands from the MobileCloud manager (MCM) – which is a server. The MCM is the component responsible for executing all of the scripts as well as storing within its repository and reports. Through this USB cable we get a live streaming from the device and are able to control the device (what we call system level control); including any device real user commands/gestures (such as tap, swipe, click etc.). We don’t jailbreak/root or take the devices apart. We purchase them directly from the manufacturer, or we can take devices from you or a customer and also put them in the cloud.
• #15 Perfecto operates 14 global data centers, including North America, South America, Canada, Israel, Europe, India (Gujarat - Guu Ju Rat) , Australia, and China. Photos: Top Left & Right – WiFi paddles/repeaters enabling increased device density | Top Right – Another Picture inside one of our Datacenters Bottom Left, FCC approved cellular tower repeater | Bottom Right, GPS signal repeater Center: Global NOC located in Wakefield, MA
• #16 How is our perfecto hosted cq lab different? There are six key capabilities that make our lab uniquely capable to satisfy all four pillars of success They are: Cloud is not hosting devices. It’s much more than that. We connect differently to platforms than anyone else. This removes instability and barriers to high automation. One lab for responsive web is an example, multiple screen sizes can be tested using the same script across both mobile and desktop browsers. Our solution is architected to allows us to detach our lab from the interface – allowing the lab to be embedded across tools We are the only vendor with the ability to perform persona based testing, defined as a parameter in you test scripts. We decouple the persona conditions form the test case, allowing the same test to be run across different personas (with different network, location, background apps, etc). It is unique in that no reporting tool on the market provides a comprehensive digital view with the flexibility to see digital platform in one view, and zoom in to the point of failure, by platform/and step in the flow.
• #17 Our platform connectivity layer provides a many benefits over standard open source. Same day support was a big pain encountered in 2017 for those not using Perfecto. lack of support for latest iOS platform (iOS 10, iPhone7) - It took 4 months for Appium to support iOS 10 in a GA release. iOS10 adoptions was at 54% of the market within the first 6 months. With Perfecto, our customer saw 0 interruption. You can even test on beta platforms the day they are released. Open source has no beta platform support. This can be the difference between testing on new platforms a month or more before they are released to the public. The Perfecto hosted cloud has a built in implementation of Remote Web Driver. So you are able to use Selenium and Appium through Perfecto’s Server. So for example, instead of having to set up an Appium Server locally, and then tether devices (1 iOS device per mac or a couple of Android devices to a windows machine), you can just connect to Perfecto’s server instance through the cloud and interact with the devices like you had them in your hand. So the benefit there is you or your team not having to deal with a local server instance, plus not having to manage physical devices or plugging them into machines locally. A few other benefits with using Perfecto’s instance, is being able to interact with objects using visual, setting end user conditions (like GPS location, phone calls and sms messages), network virtualization (3G 4G), and capturing device vitals (CPU, Memory and Bytes in/Bytes out). The bottom line is that it’s the same Selenium/Appium that users are used to working with, plus the additional Perfecto functionalities that we bring to the table. This setup allows you and your teams to be more productive, test on real devices with those all important real end user conditions PCL (platform connectivity layer) provides control over how we interact with the device, without modifying the interface or the jailbreaking or rooting the device itself, while providing system level control to the device. It is this capability, the PCL, that enables complex flows to be automated, enabling you to get to 80- 90% automation.
• #20 Notes: Let’s review a sample test.
• #21 Here is some additional information on Perfecto Reporting, 1 –Execution of tests from your favorite IDE, language, testing framework 2 – Can see reports in the Reporting Tab – In Perfecto Cloud 3 - Legacy Test Report - Can be Exported out and saved in different formats (example html, pdf). Can also be coded for in script, so maybe you are using Selenium/Appium for your testing and want to save script as a pdf format. 4 - Single Test Report – Link in Legacy Report or can be coded for in script (URL) 5 - Grid View/Dashboard – New Reporting Area – can see tests in Dashboard format, filter and drill down Just a quick note, Perfecto doesn’t limit you to just these reports/dashboards. You could also use an Open Source reporting framework like Allure or a dashboard/business intelligence tool like Splunk.
• #23 Let’s take a few minutes for Q&A. Remember, there is a panel in the webinar named Q&A to submit questions (if you have already done that, great) if not, please take a minute or so now to type out your questions, We’ll go on mute for a minute, and then come back and answer the questions.