Appium is slooow.

[pulsarinfor...@gmail.com]

Anything I can do to increase the speed of Appium?  It takes a full second just to perform a tap operation.  Why is it so slow? 

[pulsarinfor...@gmail.com]

I should add this is on a real IOS device - Ipad 2

[bootstrap online]

Apple helpfully adds a one second delay. The work around for the
simulator fails on real devices.
https://github.com/facebook/instruments-without-delay

> --
> http://appium.io
> ---
> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups
> "Appium-discuss" group.
> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an
> email to appium-discus...@googlegroups.com.
> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/appium-discuss.
> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
>
>

[David Luu]

I came upon this post recently where the author recommends another tool over Appium for Android automation with one factor being Appium is slow:

http://dnlkntt.wordpress.com/2013/08/07/its-like-10000-knives-when-all-you-need-is-a-spoon/#comment-396

I wonder how slow...

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:49:57 PM UTC-7, pulsarinfor...@gmail.com wrote:

[bootstrap online]

Appium uses uiautomator or selendroid (instrumentation) for Android
automation. I'm not aware of any framework that's faster than the
automation APIs provided by Google.

Spoon is a test runner, not a test framework. It allows you to run
existing instrumentation tests.

[Jonathan Lipps]

I'd be curious what the author found to be slow exactly. There is a little bit of overhead for each command that the WebDriver frontend adds, but it's the overhead of local HTTP which is negligent.

Jonathan

[Andrew Rymar]

Hmm, it a bit strange because I've just tried to write a simple script with Apple's Automation and it works extremely fast. Even if there are some delay in command execution, it is much less than a second.

среда, 7 августа 2013 г., 1:09:45 UTC+3 пользователь bootstrap online написал:

[David Luu]

FYI, this was the blog author's response when I asked for details about Appium slowness:

Appium runs in the cloud on an emulator. Spoon is running locally on real devices, that is a big different. Another thing is, that Appium has only Android 4 as a version for the simulator, no Android 2.3, Android 4.1, 4,2 , 4.3. You can’t choose different screen resolutions and so on. The benchmark I used was my gut feeling :).

[Jonathan Lipps]

Seems like the author has confused Appium with Sauce Labs

[bootstrap online]

Appium runs locally on real devices also. Appium in Selendroid mode
supports API 10+.

[pulsarinfor...@gmail.com]

So... Nothing can be done to increase the Appium speed on an actual device.  We all just have to live with the 1 second delay introduced by Apple.  And this is by (Apples) design?

On Tuesday, August 6, 2013 2:49:57 PM UTC-7, pulsarinfor...@gmail.com wrote:

[bootstrap online]

Ask Apple to improve their testing technology? If there's a better way
then it'll apply to everyone doing iOS testing with UI Automation.

[David Luu]

I wonder, there might already be such a bug (or enhancement request) filed to Apple for this. But it would be hard to look up or check status of it until Apple announces the fix/feature. Since Apple has such a secretive closed bug tracking system. Their design actually encourages filing duplicate bugs for them to triage, they must have a lot of time on their hands...

Best place to track Applie bugs, etc. that I know of is here: http://openradar.appspot.com, but it only works well when people who file the bugs file a clone on this other site, and keep the status in sync with the Apple version.