Appium Toolbox for VSCode

A set of tools for Appium servers

Features

• Easily run local Appium servers
• Monitor server status
• Save and load server configurations
• Good feels

Project Goals

The point of this project is to provide an interface to Appium for developers. Developers live in their IDEs, and VS Code is certainly a popular one. We want to make it as easy as possible for a developer to leverage Appium's automation capabilities--especially for the mobile web. I hear we all could stand to do a bit more testing in Safari iOS...

Requirements

Appium is bundled with this extension. However, its prerequisites are not. Please see Appium's getting started guide for more information.

Extension Settings

This extension contributes two sets of settings, which are described in detail via the UI:

• appium.serverDefaults.*: Defaults to use when running a local Appium server.
• appium.sessionDefaults.*: Defaults to use when creating saved sessions (.appiumserver files).

Known Issues

This extension should be considered an early alpha. It is not feature-complete, nor is it well-tested. It probably won't hose your filesystem, but we make no promises.

Roadmap

There's a lot to do, and a lot we could do. What's the most useful thing this extension doesn't do? Let's discuss.

• Implement server configuration like Appium Inspector (including cloud vendors, etc.)
• Provide an example .appiumserver file
• Where it makes sense, provide commands for various Appium API endpoints.
• Greater focus on mobile web. What can we do here?
• Selenium Grid integration?
• Greater control over server monitoring behavior
• Interaction with the appium v2 CLI -- driver and plugin management
• More more more

Anti-Roadmap

• Appium Inspector provides a high level of interaction which we don't need to implement.
• This isn't the place to make installing Appium's prerequisites easier, either.
• Other IDEs could use Appium plugins! Xcode and Android Studio (Jetbrains) might make a lot of sense! But not here.

License

Authored by Christopher Hiller. Copyright 2021 Sauce Labs. Licensed Apache-2.0