Robot Framework - How to connect to Amazon Device Farm - mobile

Question

Currently Amazon device farm does not have support for Robot framework with Appium. Is there a work around or a tool that can allow me to run my robot scripts on Amazon device farm?

Answer 1

Using the custom environment it is possible to use the robotframework. For example, here are the steps I used to run a robotframework test in Device Farm.
git clone https://github.com/serhatbolsu/robotframework-appiumlibrary.git
cd robotframework-appiumlibrary
Next I made modifications to the resource file for the Device Farm execution by referencing the environment variables.
./demo/test_android_contact_resource.txt
*** Settings ***
Library AppiumLibrary
*** Variables ***
${REMOTE_URL} http://localhost:4723/wd/hub
${PLATFORM_NAME} %{DEVICEFARM_DEVICE_PLATFORM_NAME}
${DEVICE_NAME} %{DEVICEFARM_DEVICE_NAME}
${APP} %{DEVICEFARM_APP_PATH}
*** Keywords ***
add new contact
[Arguments] ${contact_name} ${contact_phone} ${contact_email}
Open Application ${REMOTE_URL} platformName=${PLATFORM_NAME} deviceName=${DEVICE_NAME} app=${APP} automationName=UIAutomator2
Click Element accessibility_id=Add Contact
Input Text id=com.example.android.contactmanager:id/contactNameEditText ${contact_name}
Input Text id=com.example.android.contactmanager:id/contactPhoneEditText ${contact_phone}
Input Text id=com.example.android.contactmanager:id/contactEmailEditText ${contact_email}
Click Element accessibility_id=Save
I then created the test package to upload to Device Farm using the following steps:
# assumes we're still in the same directory as local execution
# create a virtual directory
/usr/local/bin/python2 /Users/$(whoami)/Library/Python/2.7/lib/python/site-packages/virtualenv.py workspace
cd workspace/
source bin/activate
pip install pytest
pip install Appium-Python-Client
pip install robotframework
pip install robotframework-appiumlibrary
mkdir tests
cp ../demo/*.txt ./tests/
pip freeze > requirements.txt
pip wheel --wheel-dir wheelhouse -r requirements.txt
echo "# This is a dummy file to appease the parser in Device Farm" > ./tests/dummy_test.py
# mv command might be required on mac to appease the Device Farm parser
mv wheelhouse/scandir-1.10.0-cp27-cp27m-macosx_10_12_x86_64.whl wheelhouse/scandir-1.10.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
# changed ./bin/robot to use #!/bin/python instead of absolute path to workspace
zip -r test_bundle.zip tests/ wheelhouse/ requirements.txt
Next I used the following command in the testspec.yml file to execute the tests in Device Farm.
bin/robot --outputdir $DEVICEFARM_LOG_DIR/robotresults tests/test_android_contacts.txt

Answer 2

AWS Device Farm supports frameworks like Robotium that have record and playback scripting tools. If you wish to use TestNG or JUnit You can insert language into your script that captures screen shots:
public boolean takeScreenshot(final String name) {
String screenshotDirectory = System.getProperty("appium.screenshots.dir", System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir", ""));
File screenshot = ((TakesScreenshot) driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);
return screenshot.renameTo(new File(screenshotDirectory, String.format("%s.png", name)));
}
This is an important feature for reporting. You can put this method on your Abstract BasePage or Abstract TestBase.