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 |