Distribute test cases on multiple mobile devices

[kitoymonster]

Hi guys.

Is it possible to distribute test case execution on multiple android devices? So far, I have already configured the test to run on multiple devices but it's testing the same test cases so my 7 test will generate 14 workers. What I wanted to achieve is to distribute the test to multiple devices so the overall execution time will be less. This same behavior is available in webdriverio on browser based test.

When I set maxInstances = 2 in conf and I only have 1 device in caps, I am able to see the desired behavior but because I only have one device then the test will fail since both test will be using the same device at the same time.

config.capabilities = [
  {
    platformName: 'Android',
    acceptInsecureCerts: true,
    autoGrantPermissions: true,
    platformVersion: '11.0',
    automationName: 'UiAutomator2',
    appPackage: 'com.test.app',
    appActivity: 'com.test.app.MainActivity',
    noReset: false
  }
]

Execution of 7 workers started at 2022-03-03T06:14:55.827Z
[0-1] RUNNING in com.test.app - /test/regression/profile/Test1.e2e.js
[0-0] RUNNING in com.test.app - /test/regression/profile/Test2.e2e.js

But when I set maxInstances = 2 and set 2 devices, it just test the same test in both devices.

let commonCaps = {
  platformName: 'Android',
  autoGrantPermissions: true,
  orientation: 'PORTRAIT',
  automationName: 'UiAutomator2',
  // The path to the app
  app: join(process.cwd(), './apps/app-debug.apk'),
  appPackage: 'com.test.app',
  appActivity: 'com.test.app.MainActivity',
  noReset: false
}

config.capabilities = [
  {
    ...commonCaps,
    udid: '192.168.56.102:5555'
  },{
    ...commonCaps,
    udid: '192.168.56.104:5555'
  },
]

exports.config = config

Execution of 14 workers started at 2022-03-03T06:06:33.438Z
[0-0] RUNNING in com.test.app - /test/regression/profile/Test1.e2e.js
[0-1] RUNNING in com.test.app - /test/regression/profile/Test1.e2e.js

[sivalive123]

Any update on this feature

[christian-bromann]

I recommend to use a Selenium Grid to allow WebdriverIO to spin up tests on multiple devices in parallel.

[M-Hammad-Faisal]

can you elaborate a bit more? how can we split test cases onto multiple devices?

[M-Hammad-Faisal]

Can you elaborate how can i split test cases on all capabilities rather than running all of them on all availble capabilities?

It would be a great help. Thank you.

[christian-bromann]

I don't have any examples but you can register multiple Appium nodes to a Selenium Grid as described here: https://appium.io/docs/en/2.1/guides/grid/