Anadea Inc. internal mini-conference on November 5th, 2015. Calabash Android + Calabash iOS | Kirill Machuhin | Slides A brief report about the conference: https://anadea.info/blog/november-5th-2015-mini-conference

1. Calabash Andoird + Calabash iOS
automated testing of mobile applications

2. Is it time to automate?

3. Tools
Android iOS
Calabash Android Calabash iOS
MonkeyTalk Frank
Robotium UIAutomation
Selendroid KeepItFunctional
UIAutomator ios-driver

4. Which tool to choose?

5. Which tool to choose?
The key factors
● Ruby on Rails server
● Cross-platform support (Android, iOS)
● framework updatability
● running on real devices

6. Calabash. Adavantages.
● Calabash Android
● Calabash iOS
● Ruby
● Gherkin Syntax (Cucumber style)
● Calabash Android last updated - 26 days ago
● Calabash iOS last updated - a month ago
● Testing on the real devices

7. Calabash iOS. Installation
# Install calabash ios gem
$ gem install calabash-cucumber
# Generate a features dir
$ bundle exec calabash-ios gen
# Install calabash.framework to .xcodeproj
$ calabash-ios setup

8. calabash-ios gen

9. calabash-ios setup
● Generates calabash scheme for iOS project.
● Connects calabash.framework to our project (testing
server)

10. Runnig tests. iOS
To run on physical device:
● BUNDLE_ID=com.anadea.***
● DEVICE_ENDPOINT=http://192.168.100.85:37265
The launch command:
$ bundle exec cucumber

11. Calabash Android. Installation
# Install calabash Android gem
$ gem install calabash-android
# Generate a features dir
$ bundle exec calabash-android gen

12. calabash-android gen

13. Running tests. Android
The launch command:
$ bundle exec calabash-android run <path_to_apk>

14. Duplicate ourselves
iOS
sign_up.feature
sign_up_steps.rb
sign_up_screen.rb
Android
sign_up.feature
sign_up_steps.rb
sign_up_screen.rb

15. Design of the applications
iOS Android

16. WTF...

17. What to do?
● install gems on the server side
● split PageObject into moduls
● stick together calabash-ios & calabash-android launchers

18. Stick

19. Split into moduls

20. Modified scheme
iOS + Android
sign_up.feature
sign_up_steps.rb
ios
sign_up_screen.rb
android
sign_up_screen.rb

21. The launch commands
iOS
cucumber CLIENT_PLATFORM=IOS
Android
calabash-android run <path_to_apk>
CLIENT_PLATFORM=Android

22. The advantages of implementation
● there is no duplicate code (*.feature, *_steps.rb)
● possibility of easy access to objects via ActiveRecord
● emulation of the second client working on the server side

23. The disadvantages of implementation
● different launch commands (cucumber, calabash-android run)
● it is not possible to work in the debug mode, provided by calabash (remedy is
binding.pry :) )

24. Getting rid of disadvantages
CALABASHER
(include calabash-ios & calabash-android)

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