Building a scalable device lab with Ansible
summary
Claim: a working in‑house iPhone simulator lab that hits a 20 minute target for pull‑request UI checks. Built with Ansible + Selenium Grid + Appium, pulling CI builds from a GCP bucket, auto‑configuring simulators and node JSON, and restarting flaky Appium instances. Runs a subset of ~20 UI tests in parallel, reuses old MacBooks (optimal density ~8 simulators per 16GB Mac), queues up to ~500 jobs, and integrates video capture and TestRail reporting.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50What is a good way to test mobile apps
- 2:15Test framework
- 5:00Challenges
- 7:50Solutions
- 10:00The plan
- 10:45How we built it
- 18:40Next steps
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