vodQA 2012

1. Raman Kansal & Kriti Mehta
BDT goes Mobile!!!

2. Evolution of test frameworks
Core Frameworks
Record & Playback
Optimized scripts
Behavior Driven Testing(BDT)

3. Lets start with an example
USER ATM MONEY

4. Test cases:
Valid card,
Invalid card,
Valid amount,
Invalid amount etc
Methods:
validate_card()
verify_cash()
debit_cash()
*Validating card
*Verifying the
account
*Debit cash
*Ensure correct
balance in account
4
User
QA
BA
Developer
BUT
I wanted to withdraw cash
from atm !!!

5. Let's do it BDT way!
5
UserQABA Dev
Functionality
Test Cases
Behavior
Implementation

6. Why is BDT an advantage?
Usable domain language for team as well as domain experts/clients
Never have to rewrite specs, since the behavior does not change.
Fixing context implementations , less painful than to rewrite tests
Supports multiple languages
Example: Cucumber supports 30 different languages.

7. So the future is mobile!!

8. BDT mobile testing tools
Calabash-iOS
Calabash
-Android
Frank
(iOS)
Robotium
(Android)
FoneMonkey
(iOS)
Appium
SikuliEggPlant

9. Calabash- iOS
Automated testing technology
For iOS native and hybrid applications
Cucumber based

10. How it works?

11. DEMO
Pre-Requisite – MacOS with xcode and Ruby
DEMO
Setup
Features
Execution
Steps
Query

12. Useful calabash commands
cd path-to-my-ios-project (i.e. directory containing .xcodeproj file)
gem install calabash-cucumber
calabash-ios gen
calabash-ios setup
Cucumber /NO_LAUNCH=1 DEVICE=iphone OS=ios5
DEVICE_ENDPOINT=http://192.168.1.37:37265 cucumber
calabash-ios console

13. Custom steps
(.feature and .rb file)

14. Pros
➢ Uniform interface across
platforms
➢ Supports complex gestures
➢ Authenticity
➢ Cucumber
➢ Extensibility and community

15. Useful links
➢ Calabash ios setup: https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios
➢ Calabash android setup:https://github.com/calabash/calabash-android
➢ IOS - Application used in Demo:
https://github.com/Frahaan/2012-Olympics-iOS--iPad-and-iPhone--source-code
➢ Calabash cucumber doc:
https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios/blob/0.9.x/calabash-cucumber/doc/x-platform-te
sting.md
➢ Calabash tests execution:
https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios/wiki/07-Testing-on-physical-iDevices
➢ Calabash landing page:
http://calaba.sh/
➢ Less-Painful -Automated App testing:
https://www.lesspainful.com/
➢ Pre-defined steps:https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios/wiki/02-Predefined-steps
➢ Calabash iOS ruby API:
https://github.com/calabash/calabash-ios/wiki/03.5-Calabash-iOS-Ruby-API

16. Questions ??