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Posted February 6, 2013

Announcing Appium on Sauce: Native & amp; Hybrid iOS App Testing in the Cloud

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Today we are passing stimulate to announce the initial release of, a new way to automatically test your aboriginal and mobile web hybrid iOS apps in the cloud.

Appium on Sauce has its beginning inAppium, an open seed project written in Node.js that line fromDan Cuellar & # x27; semployment on iOS Auto. Appium currently supports iOS testing with Android support in the works. Using the WebDriver JSON Wire Protocol to drive Apple ’ s UIAutomation, Appium lead Selenium commands from your app and translates those into a readable formatting for UIAutomation. With this seamless transition happening under the hoodlum, Appium requiresno recompiling or modificationsto your app, and allows you to write tests in yourpreferent programming language and testing frameworks using the Selenium APIand language-specific libraries.

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Support for mobile web hybrid and native app testing has be on our radar screen for a piece now, specially since theMobile Testing Summit, where we were first introduced to the project now known as Appium. Given its out-of-the-box compatibility with Selenium, goal of cross-platform support across iOS and Android, and flexible attack to mechanization, pairing Appium with our cloud to supply a turnkey service for automatically testing native and intercrossed apps make pure sense. And the best component? Appium on Sauce requiresno setup or maintenanceof iOS infrastructure. Tests can run inparallel across scads of machines, allowing them to complete much faster than if they were running serially. Additionally, you can plug Appium on Sauce into yoursurvive CI setupand let the cloud serve as your build server. To get a quick of thought of how Appium on Sauce works, ascertain out the demo video below boastEverest, an iPhone app that facilitate you achieve personal goals.For the adjacent few weeks, Appium on Sauce will be usable by invitation-only as we turn our power to endorse more exploiter. We expect to open up Appium on Sauce to everyone in the upcoming weeks so stay tuned to and for an declaration on that. And in the meantime, if you & # x27; re a Node developer working on a mobile app development or testing, please studycontributing to Appiumto help do it better! Felicitous examination!

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