In this presentation, she will present some tips, tricks, and gotchas for mobile testing using Appium which she has learned through experience. There are many differences and things to be aware of when developing tests on Android vs. iOS, locally vs. on a remote platform such as SauceLabs, and on simulators vs. real devices. In addition, she will talk about some of the limitations of mobile testing and will show some custom code that can be used to circumvent some of these issues.

Takeaways from the topic:

Attendees will learn tips, tricks, and gotchas with regard to mobile testing including but not limited to the following:

• Testing locally vs. testing on SauceLabs (simulator, vs real devices)
• Testing on iOS vs testing on Android
• Limitations of iOS simulator and real device testing, such as camera sim and CORS cross-frame
• Custom AppiumLibrary and other code for RF/Python