Mobile Test Bench for VS Code

Mirror and control Android and iOS devices in VS Code, inspect their UI, and get ready-to-use Mobilewright, Appium and WebdriverIO locators. This is the VS Code port of the Mobile Test Bench IntelliJ plugin.

Features

Mirror and control: Android emulators and phones, iOS simulators and iPhones. Click to tap, drag to swipe, hold for a long press, type with the keyboard.
Inspector: element tree, properties, highlight on the screen, locator suggestions with duplicate detection, scoped locators, accessibility audit, page object generator.
Recorder and player: record gestures, add assertions, replay, copy or insert as Mobilewright, Appium or WebdriverIO code.
Show Locator on Device: caret on a locator in your test code, Ctrl+Alt+Shift+M, highlights the matches on the device.
Device Tools tabs: Log, Apps (reset state, permissions), Open URL, Crashes, Location, Display and language, Input, Network, Battery, Biometrics, WebView, Files, Performance, Visual diff, Notifications.
Device power and reconnect: boot, shut down, reboot; reconnect automatically after a drop.

Requirements

mobilecli (npm install -g mobilecli): iOS, the Android 17 inspector and many tools.
adb from the Android SDK platform-tools for Android.
macOS with Xcode (simctl) for iOS simulators.

Setup per platform: docs/DEVICE-SETUP.md.

Privacy

No telemetry. The extension talks to your devices through adb, xcrun and mobilecli, to the local emulator gRPC port, and to a WebDriverAgent URL you configure. See PRIVACY.md.

Thank you

A big thank you to Gil Megidish, CEO of Mobile-Next, who created mobilecli and Mobilewright. Mirroring and controlling iPhones and simulators, reading the UI hierarchy on Android 17, and many of the Device Tools tabs run on mobilecli, and the locators follow Mobilewright's Inspector rules. Without his work, this extension would not be possible.

Development

npm install
npm run build && npm test

Press F5 to start an Extension Development Host. See docs/PORTING.md and docs/SYNC.md.

Staying in step with the IntelliJ plugin

npm run sync:check reports which Kotlin files changed since they were ported, npm run sync:fixtures shares the plugin's test fixtures, and docs/PARITY.md lists every Kotlin file with its TypeScript counterpart. Details in docs/SYNC.md.

Status

Ported from plugin version 1.0.1. The pure core has 769 unit tests ported from the plugin, and the extension has been tested on Android emulators and devices and iOS simulators and iPhones.

Mobile Test Bench

Marco Maes