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.
Live video stream: (IOS and Android)
Watch the live video of the test execution
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
Execute webdriver.io scripts: (Android & IOS)
Ability to run webdriver.io script on a running session for better debugging.
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-dashboardPlugin 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-dashboardNow 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
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| dashboard:enableVideoRecording | boolean | if true, video recording of the session can be viewd from the dashboard after the session is killed |
defaults to true
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