Ranorex Appium Calabash UI Automation Tools Ranorex Appium Calabash

Tool Evaluation

Ranorex - Advantages Cross platform support Test Automation Library for .Net Standard programming langauges C# and VB.Net for scripting Test development environment (Ranorex Studio) features recorder, debugger, object spy and repository Flexible Test Automation Library Interface Test suites with Ranorex results in .EXE files for simple integration with test management, behaviour driven development and continuous integration server tools Customizable Test report engine.

How does it work? Gherkin Device/Simulator Android + Run Tests 4. Specflow reads bdd (formatted in Gherkin) Device/Simulator 3. Team city runs Visual Studio project 6. Test Scripts runs on RT App. 5. Connects to device through WiFi Android Run Tests (TeamCity Server) + Visual Studio RT App (Our Build) SpecFlow Ranorex Library iOS 2. .Exe is stored in repository 1.BDD Stories are turned into Visual studio projects 3333 Windows BDD Stories SVN

Ranorex-Disadvantages Xamarin related automation Issues Support takes more time for Xamarin related issues Ranorex agent compatibility with Application is poor and causes crashing as new features are introduced in app Instrumented application is slower than original Application Some Touch gestures/Drag and drop operation not supported In case of crashing/hanging, Automatic launching of closed Application is not supported Need to provide long waiting times for object identification.

Appium - Advantages Active community No extra code into application Open source – we can make our own fixes and ask for pull requests on github Easier to learn and implement than Calabash Element inspector in Appium app

Appium - Disadvantages Over 50 open bugs with iOS Unable to get hooks on certain elements in complicated apps(programme detail page). https://github.com/appium/appium/issues/537 Inconsistent with outcomes(due to no wait/delay) Currently cannot drag – known logged bug

Appium - Demo

Calabash - Advantages Now owned by Xamarin Wait/sleep functionality Can swipe BDD Layer easily configurable

Calabash - Disadvantages Not tested enough? No updates in months – maybe due to takeover from xamarin so may become closed source. Must be written in Ruby and cucumber - Can be tricky

Calabash - Demo

Conclusion Best tool to use is Calabash: Owned and supported by Xamarin More stable and reliable, testing is more consistent. Easier to setup the BDD layer for QA’s

(formatted in Gherkin) How does it work? Gherkin 1. Team city runs Cucumber scripts. 2. Cucumber reads BDD (formatted in Gherkin) Android Run Tests (TeamCity Server) Cucumber Calabash Xamarin (Our Build) iOS 3. From the parsed Gherkin files, Cucumber runs the retrieved Ruby files and methods. WP 4. Ruby talks to calabash to run commands on the platforms. Ruby