https://lwn.net/Articles/548910/
A summary of talks at a recent conference on test automation, with a bunch of links for people who want to follow up and watch videos.
A major theme was WebDriver, which is an API for automating web browsers. Mozilla presented its work on WebDriver support in Gecko and extensions to WebDriver to allow automated testing of FirefoxOS beyond just the Gecko-powered content layer. Google talked about WebDriver support in Chrome/Chromium, including Chrome on Android. Others demonstrated FOSS software that re-purposes the WebDriver API for testing native mobile applications on Android and iOS.
We use Selenium, which makes use of WebDriver. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/QA/Roadmap has more. I believe we are not currently using any of the technologies mentioned to specifically perform automated testing on mobile apps or mobile browsers, although I could be wrong.
Chris McMahon was at this conference and may have more specific "we should do foo" recommendations. :)
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 5:13 AM, Sumana Harihareswara <sumanah@wikimedia.org
wrote:
I believe we are not currently using any of the technologies mentioned to specifically perform automated testing on mobile apps or mobile browsers, although I could be wrong.
We do run Selenium tests on mobile browsers (iOS and Android). I think there could be some Calabash tests for mobile apps, mobile team would know more. We were talking about using Appium for testing mobile apps in the future.
Željko
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Sumana Harihareswara sumanah@wikimedia.orgwrote:
https://lwn.net/Articles/548910/
A summary of talks at a recent conference on test automation, with a bunch of links for people who want to follow up and watch videos.
Chris McMahon was at this conference and may have more specific "we should do foo" recommendations. :)
I was at GTAC in 2007 and 2009 as well. This year's conference seemed to me to indicate that this sort of test automation is in something of a holding pattern right now, with a strong emphasis on existing, accepted practice in mobile testing.
All of the videos of the GTAC talks are available here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLSIUOFhnxEiCODb8XQB-RUQ0RGNZ2yW7d
I found #5 and #16 the most interesting. #5 because it explains how Expedia chose exactly the same set of browser automation tools that we at WMF did, for very similar reasons, with similar results. It's always nice to find someone else thinking the same way. #16 talks about the architecture of Appium, the open source mobile test framework under development from Sauce Labs. To my mind, Appium is the most interesting approach to automated mobile testing right now. Sauce Labs intends to offer Appium tests as a service Real Soon Now, which we intend to take advantage of. And if you follow such things, in some distant future time I believe that Sauce intends to have Appium control actual physical robots with moving arms and such poking real devices in 3D space. But that is no time soon, and not part of GTAC...
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