appium-dashboard

Appium plugin that provides complete test logs, video recording of test and device logs(logcat and syslogs) for easy debugging of tests.

Features

Complete Session Log: (IOS and Android)

Monitor all webdriver session api calls made by the test will full request and response details.

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Live video stream: (IOS and Android)

Watch the live video of the test execution

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Device Logs: (IOS and Android)

View device logs from android(logcat) and Ios(syslogs) devices/emulators.

App Profiling: (Android)

Get insignts on the performance of the application by analysing the CPU and Memory usage during the test execution.

Network Logs: (Android)

Monitor the network requests made by native/hybrid appilcation(inside WebView) and web based tests that runs on chrome browser

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Execute webdriver.io scripts: (Android & IOS)

Ability to run webdriver.io script on a running session for better debugging.

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And lot more yet to come....

Installation

This plugin requires Appium version 2.0. Once appium 2.0 is installed, run the bellow command to install the plugin

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-dashboard

Plugin Activation

Once the installion is done, the plugin needs to be activated each time when the appium server is started using below command

appium --use-plugin=appium-dashboard

Now navigate to http://localhost:4723/dashboard to open the web app which will show the complete list of tests and its details that are being executed.

NOTE: This plugin is still in beta phase and heavy testing is being done to eliminate all possible issues along with lot other new features.

Custom capabilitis:

Name	Type	Description	Example
dashboard:name	string	Custom name for the session	{"dashboard:name" : Sample login test }
dashboard:enableLiveVideo	boolean	if true live video of the execution will be streamed from the dashboard	defaults to true
dashboard:enableVideoRecording	boolean	if true, video recording of the session can be viewd from the dashboard after the session is killed	defaults to true