Building an Advanced Automation Solution Based on Appium
summary
Describes an Appium-based framework that runs the same mobile tests on iOS and Android by using a custom mobile-element abstraction plus explicit adb and idevice commands to handle actions emulators cannot. Tests run in parallel via Selenium Grid and BrowserStack cloud, reducing a full suite from eight hours to about 1.5 hours; the talk also compares real devices (more reliable) versus emulators (wider configuration), and highlights hardware (SSDs, newer Mac minis) and signing/provisioning details as critical to successful device runs.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Mobile automation intro
- 5:18Mobile automation problems
- 11:42Unusual cases solutions
- 16:24Handling mobile elements
- 23:11Testing in development
- 32:22Real devices vs emulators
- 39:01Devices or emulators
- 45:05Cloud testing services
- 48:47Q&A
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