Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-07 Thread Filip Maj
As Alex Sorokin kindly pointed out to me on Slack, we have Appium UI automation already existing for the contacts [1] and camera [2] plugins. Our CI system also executes on this to automate the UI end-to-end and guard against further errors [3]. The CI tosses this job over to Sauce Labs to do the h

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-07 Thread Filip Maj
I am planning on putting a proof of concept together for a few plugins, and having something like mobile spec be able to string multiple plugins' UI automation tests together and assert pass/failure (via its defineAutoTests / defineManualTests-like functions). I'll post more when I have something

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-07 Thread julio cesar sanchez
I was the other way around, I got Appium working easily, but I was never able to make calabash work in iOS because it always failed to instrument my app. Both worked fine for Android though. 2016-12-07 12:48 GMT+01:00 Trevor Brindle : > As little market share as windows has, it's hard to say how

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-07 Thread Trevor Brindle
As little market share as windows has, it's hard to say how much effort should be dedicated to additional testing for it. That said, if windows testing is deemed necessary, I don't think we have much choice. Just keep in mind the new windows support and new iOS driver are all appium 1.6, only rele

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-06 Thread Filip Maj
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

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-06 Thread Trevor Brindle
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 wrote: > +1 to appium > > > > 2016-12-05 23:33 GMT+01:00 Filip Maj

Re: An idea for manually testing plugins

2016-12-06 Thread julio cesar sanchez
+1 to appium 2016-12-05 23:33 GMT+01:00 Filip Maj : > 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 rel