Appium is slow

[bootstraponline]

I have a simple seven line test that logs in and then out of an app. It takes 53 seconds to run. One step iterates through almost 36 elements to find the appropriate value.

Is the best practice to discover elements via text and then save index numbers so subsequent runs are not slow?

[jlipps]

Your snippet was a little opaque to me; would you mind pasting your whole test including helper functions?

For Appium tests, we "remember" indexes and treat them as part of the page source (i.e., they don't change), but if there's a faster way to do what you want (which sounds like it's "find an element by its text") we certainly want to add it instead of relying on brittle indexes.

[bootstraponline]

This is the whole test. The strings have been altered slightly. The need to manually invoke wait every time will go away once I work on it a bit more. I just got the test passing today.

  start = Time.now
  wait { button('Sign In') }.click
  wait { textfield('Email') }.send_keys 'my@email'
  wait { secure_textfield('Password') }.send_keys 'password'
  wait { button('Sign In', 2) }.click
  wait { button('details') }.click
  wait { text_include('my account') }.click
  wait { button('Sign Out') }.click
  alert_accept
  puts "Finished in #{Time.now - start} seconds"

The helper functions are defined in appium/ruby_console.

[bootstraponline]

I think the problem is text_include('my account'). There are about 30 static text elements and the one I have to click on is dynamically generated. The label text changes so I can only do a partial match. Enumerating the name attribute of each static text is slow.

> text_include('my account')
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/elements
{"using":"tag name","value":"text"}
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/88/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/89/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/90/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/91/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/92/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/93/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/94/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/95/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/96/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/97/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/98/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/99/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/100/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/101/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/102/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/103/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/104/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/105/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/106/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/107/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/108/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/109/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/110/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/111/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/112/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/113/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/114/attribute/name
null
get
session/f128e37b-ef35-4802-86f1-0a6addcfa9e1/element/115/attribute/name
null

[bootstraponline]

I got this working using UIAutomation directly. This example taps the first button that has a name containing 'Sign'. UIAutomation is instant compared to 28 seconds for this feature using WebDriver.

@driver.execute_script %( UIATarget.localTarget().frontMostApp().mainWindow().buttons().firstWithPredicate("name contains[c] 'Sign'").tap() )

[jlipps]

Closing this for now, but keep your eyes peeled for future enhancements that allow for greater speed while sticking within the WebDriver paradigm.

[bootstraponline]

The xpath feature fixed the slowness. It's almost instant now.

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