Mobile Automation State in 2019
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Overview of mobile automation in 2019: Appium added an Espresso Driver (about 20% faster by leveraging Espresso synchronization), moved to the W3C protocol, added image-based element lookup and a plugin API (image-recognition starts ~70% accurate and improves with more runs). Google released AndroidX Test to unify Android test APIs, Xcode 10 introduced distributed parallel runs, and cloud providers offer XCUITest on real devices — recommendation is to use Appium for cross-platform integration and native tools (Espresso/XCUITest) for best speed and stability.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:11Existing mobile tools
- 4:26Espresso driver updates
- 10:12Appium plugins
- 13:43Android native automation
- 17:59iOS distributed runs
- 20:55Appium vs native tools
- 26:10Appium weaknesses and fixes
- 31:28Native tools future
- 33:12Tool selection
- 35:47Q&A
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