Select a mobile device

Define the capabilities to select a device in the Continuous Quality Lab according to device attributes (instead of a specific device ID) and define the CQ Lab credentials.

Example

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities("mobileChrome", "", Platform.ANY);
String host = "mymobilecloud.perfectomobile.com";
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.4");
capabilities.setCapability("user", "myUser");
capabilities.setCapability("securityToken", "myToken");
URL url = new URL("https://" + host + "/nexperience/perfectomobile/wd/hub");
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(url, capabilities);

Auto-selection of leading devices

The limitation in using a specific device is that sometimes the device may be busy running a different script or may be disabled. The better option for scripts running automatically is to supply the necessary device characteristics and let Perfecto automatically select the device from the available devices. When the test script does not define a specific device, Perfecto selects a leading device for testing. This is the default configuration in public cloud instances. For private clouds, Perfecto Support can configure leading devices upon request.

The leading devices feature ensures that your tests always run again the most relevant, stable, popular devices with the highest possible OS version. If a leading device is not available, Perfecto selects the device with the highest OS version instead. In particular, Perfecto selects devices based on the following guidelines:

1. If model or manufacturer are selected, but no platformVersion is selected, Perfecto sets the platformVersion to latest.
2. If model and manufacturer are not selected and the Leading Device feature is enabled, Perfecto selects one of the leading devices with the highest OS version available.
3. In either case, if the platformVersion is not selected, Perfecto selects the highest available OS version. Prior to this enhancement, the OS selection was random.
4. If model is set to leading, Perfecto selects a random leading device with the highest OS version available. If a leading device is not available, the allocation fails.
5. If model is not selected, Perfecto selects a random leading device with the highest OS version available. If a leading device is not available, Perfecto selects a random device with the highest OS version available.

If you are an automation engineer, this means that when you use the Select device command to select a device based on attributes, you can:

• Set the model capability to leading to have the script test one of the leading devices. For example:

  capabilities.setCapability(”model", ”leading”);

• Set the platformVersion capability to Latest to make sure the script tests the latest OS version. For example:

  capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "Latest”);

The following table lists examples.

For the public cloud, the following devices are currently defined as leading devices. 

Mobile browser

Regular expressions

Regular expressions including wildcards can be used. The capability values are case sensitive.

• OR - e.g. "ATaT|T-Mob" for network means either ATaT (for AT&T) or a network beginning with 'T-Mob'.
• NOT - e.g. "(?!(Amazon|Apple)).*" for manufacturer means neither Amazon nor Apple.
• contains - e.g. ".*Galaxy.* for model means the model contains the string 'Galaxy' and would match any of {Galaxy S6, Galaxy S9, Galaxy 8+}.

Capabilities for development

Click here for a breakdown of supported Appium capabilities.

Desktop Web testing

Web VM configuration capabilities

Set the capabilities to define the VM to be used for your Web app testing.

Example

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities("mobileChrome", "", Platform.ANY);
String host = "mymobilecloud.perfectomobile.com";
capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Windows");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "10");
capabilities.setCapability("browserName", "Chrome");
capabilities.setCapability("browserVersion", "latest");
capabilities.setCapability("resolution", "1366x768");
capabilities.setCapability("location", "US East");
capabilities.setCapability("chromedriverVersion", "2.23");
capabilities.setCapability("seleniumVersion", "3.8.1");
URL url = new URL("https://" + host + "/nexperience/perfectomobile/wd/hub/fast");
RemoteWebDriver driver = new RemoteWebDriver(url, capabilities);

...

# localhost name resolution is handled within DNS itself.

#    127.0.0.1       localhost

#    ::1             localhost

ip1   url1

ip2   url2

Map<String, String> hostsRecords = new HashMap<>();
hostsRecords.put("ip1", "url1");
hostsRecords.put("ip2", "url2");

capabilities.setCapability("addHostsRecord", hostsRecords);

var hostsRecords={};
hostsRecords ["ip1"]="host1";
hostsRecords ["ip2"]="host2";

...
var capabilities = {
    ...
    'addHostsRecord': hostsRecords,
    ...
}

Web application capabilities

Example

capabilities.setCapability("takesScreenshot", true);
capabilities.setCapability("screenshotOnError", false);

Smart Reporting capabilities

Test analysis with Smart Reporting uses different test identifying parameters as flags associated with the test reports. These identifying items are used to filter, select, or just to easily identify the test report. These values may be associated to the test using the reporting SDK or alternatively using the following DesiredCapability fields:

Any values for the project or job information will be overwritten by settings using the SDK. Values provided for the tags and customFields will be merged, with priority given to values set by the SDK. See also scriptName capability above.

Example:

String browserName = "mobileOS";
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities(browserName, "", Platform.ANY );
String host = perfectoLabURL;
capabilities.setCapability("securityToken", myToken);
capabilities.setCapability("report.projectName", "test_fail_to_open");
capabilities.setCapability("report.projectVersion", "2.0");
capabilities.setCapability("report.tags", "spring,forward,tag1");
capabilities.setCapability("report.jobName", "myTestJob");
capabilities.setCapability("report.jobNumber", 8);
capabilities.setCapability("report.jobBranch", "master");
capabilities.setCapability("report.customFields", "cc=custom,mm=fewer");

Perfecto report and video

Faster test execution performance with the option to specify whether a report or video will be created during script execution. This means more tests can be run per hour.

Example

capabilities.setCapability("outputVideo", false);
capabilities.setCapability("outputVisibility", "public");

Wind Tunnel

* This is the device location to simulate. It is different from the location capability, used for selecting a mobile device, that identifies the actual device location.

Supported Appium capabilities

Learn more on Appium specific supported capabilities here.

Also in this section:

• Use capabilities to select a device
• Select a device based on supported features