Full disclosure: I contribute(d) to appium and worked for Sauce Labs, so I am pretty biased ;)
Calabash, unfortunately, is iOS and Android only and does not support Windows app, whereas Appium does via WinAppDriver [1]. I agree that appium, at least earlier on, was difficult to set up. These days it's a simple `npm install`. I think appium has a much more prolific committership to boot (MSFT contributes to it, for example). The github network stats for each project back that up as well. [1] https://github.com/microsoft/winappdriver On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 4:02 PM, Trevor Brindle <tabrin...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my experience with appium, it is troublesome to set up and maintain. We > may investigate other frameworks that have similar functionality. I have > had great luck with calabash. > > > On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 5:30 PM julio cesar sanchez <jcesarmob...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> +1 to appium >> >> >> >> 2016-12-05 23:33 GMT+01:00 Filip Maj <maj....@gmail.com>: >> >> >> >> > Hi, it's me again! >> >> > >> >> > How I'd like to contribute to Cordova is to help automate the stuff >> >> > that saves committers having to take the manual time to do themselves. >> >> > I think a good first goal would be to help automate as much of >> >> > platform release testing as possible [1]. The autotests seem to be >> >> > handled relatively well by the CI system so far (if anyone feels this >> >> > is not true, please speak up! I want to hear about what works and what >> >> > does not). The other part of mobile-spec-based platform release >> >> > testing is to "run the manual tests". After reading the >> >> > cordova-plugin-test-framework README [2], I thought this would be a >> >> > good place to give plugin developers some better tools to deal with >> >> > testing complex UI interactions that the autotests can't handle on >> >> > their own. I was thinking appium [3] would be a good tool to >> >> > complement that in this case. It gives us UI hooks into both web and >> >> > natives contexts within hybrid applications, plus it also allows us to >> >> > inject JavaScript into the web context. Wondering what others think? >> >> > >> >> > I could then foresee, with a little bit of scaffolding, a way to >> >> > string plugins' appium tests together to fully automate the 'manual' >> >> > testing of plugin tests during platform release testing. >> >> > >> >> > Let me know what y'all think! >> >> > >> >> > [1] https://github.com/apache/cordova-coho/blob/master/docs/ >> >> > platforms-release-process.md#what-to-test >> >> > [2] https://github.com/apache/cordova-plugin-test-framework# >> >> > defining-manual-tests >> >> > [3] appium.io >> >> > >> >> > --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org >> >> > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org >> >> > >> >> > >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@cordova.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@cordova.apache.org
