An Introduction

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Project uses the Selenium WebDriver protocol and is at version 0.6 with a stable API and backward-compatible tests, implementing native, hybrid and mobile Safari automation via UIAutomation/instruments and the WebKit remote debug protocol. Built an on-device inspector that shows element trees, attributes and localization keys so locators use resource keys instead of strings. Tests scale with Selenium Grid. Roadmap for 0.7 replaces instruments with libimobiledevice so real devices run on Linux (proof‑of‑concept) though native on real devices is still limited.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 5:33Technical choices
3. 8:11The project
4. 8:40The committers
5. 10:00Writing tests
6. 11:29Challenge 1 - content
7. 13:41Challenge 2 - inspector
8. 17:02Hybrid - UIWebView
9. 17:49WebKit Remote Debug Protocol
10. 18:33integration
11. 21:28Scaling using Selenium Grid
12. 24:04What's next?
13. 26:37Multi mobile Safari on real devices

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