How I Reduced Appium Tests Execution Time By 50%
summary
Started with 287 Appium tests taking ~240 minutes and achieves ~50% execution reduction by practical changes: replace XPath with accessibility ids (cuts iOS find times ~2x, ~10 minutes saved), replace Thread.sleep with waitUntil/retry loops (avoids fixed waits, saves 30–40 minutes), dynamic retry from DB (only re-run flaky tests, cuts rebuild time by hours), plus test count pruning and use deep links to skip navigation (saves 5–7 minutes); runs on BrowserStack cloud and reaches ~40–50 minutes with 800 cases.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:36Problem Statement
- 2:58Extensive Use Of Xpaths
- 4:47Using Thread.sleep Why we made this mistake
- 7:47Using Common Explicit Wait Time
- 11:154.Using Retry, Depends On & Priority Why we made this mistake
- 12:12Customizing Retry Failures To make it dyn
- 12:54Change In Retry Method Insider RetryAnal
- 13:37Focusing On Test Cases Count
- 15:44Doing Everything From Appium Comman
- 16:29Not Using In Memory Caching
- 17:19Not Using Deep Links
- 18:05Optimizing Cloud Device Vendor Capabil
- 18:55Using Analytics to drive test execution
- 19:36Results Comparison
- 20:06References
- 20:24Questions
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