A report from MobileOptimized by Sergey Komarov, Senior QA Automation Engineer at Oxagile

1. How to Master Mobile
Automation in QA

2. Sergey Komarov
I’m Senior QA Automation engineer at Oxagile
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 Former military radio engineer;
 Been in IT since 2008;
 4 years of manual testing experience;
 2 years of Web application
automation experience;
 Been specializing in mobile
automation testing since 2014.

3. QA automation works for:
 unit testing
 API testing
 mobile UI testing (hot topic these
days)
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4.  cross-platform testing
 frequent release cycles
 unattended testing
 multiple application versions
 manual testing had to be made fun
again 
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Why our mobile app needed it:

5. And let’s not forget:
…that’s what the customer
wanted, too 
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6. Enter Appium
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7. Devs can make future test automation easier:
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Android:
 contentDescription
 resource id
iOS:
 name (accessibility id)
 label
 value

8. We made test automation a part of CI:
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Build job Test job
Mac OS and devices

9. A lot of things can be tested:
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 any app type (native, hybrid, or web)
 any user action (dragging, multi-
touch, file upload, etc.)
 device actions (rotation, locking, etc.)

10. Feel the power:
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 all capabilities of Android adb
 JavaScript injections
 libimobiledevice library

11. Limited support or not yet possible to:
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 switch between apps
 emulate external events like sending an SMS
 monitor hardware parameters like battery charge
 test audio (except on real devices)
 test flashing or flickering elements due to Appium
slowness

12. So where do we go from here?
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I’m going out for
some beer 

13. Seriously though, automation helps with:
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 simulating user actions
 complex scenarios
 frequent repetitive tasks
 long tests
 eliminating human errors

14. A few beautiful charts
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Smoke test Regression test

15. Do not overload 
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UI testing has its limits:
API through UI
more unit testing
some things are
better left to manual
testers

16. Oxagile Automation Team
Oxagile core clients
Thanks for viewing!
Now, please look at the light, forget everything you heard,
and we’ll be the only wonder-working team out there 
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