element-x-android/.maestro

Maestro

Maestro is a framework that we are using to test navigation across the application. To setup, please refer at https://maestro.mobile.dev

• Run test
  • Output
• Write test
• CI
• iOS
• Future

Run test

From root dir of the project

Note: Since ElementX does not allow account creation nor room creation, we have to use an existing account with an existing room to run maestro test suite. So to run locally, please replace user and 123 with your test matrix.org account credentials, and my room with one of a room this account has join. Note that the test will send messages to this room.

maestro test \
    -e APP_ID=io.element.android.x.debug \
    -e USERNAME=user \
    -e PASSWORD=123 \
    -e ROOM_NAME="my room" \
    .maestro/allTests.yaml

Output

Test result will be printed on the console, and screenshots will be generated at ./build/maestro

Write test

Tests are yaml files. Generally each yaml file should leave the app in the same screen than at the beginning.

Start the ElementX app and run this command to help writing test.

maestro studio

Note that sometimes, this prevent running the test. So kill the maestro studio process to be able to run the test again.

Also, if updating the application code, do not forget to deploy again the application before running the maestro tests.

CI

The CI is running maestro using the workflow .github/worflow/maestro.yaml and maestro cloud. For now we are limited to 100 runs a month. Some GitHub secrets are used to be able to do that: MAESTRO_CLOUD_API_KEY, for now api key from benoitm@element.io maestro cloud account, and MATRIX_MAESTRO_ACCOUNT_PASSWORD which is the password of the account @maestroelement:matrix.org. This account contains a room MyRoom to be able to run the maestro test suite.

iOS

Need to install idb-companion first

brew install idb-companion

Also: https://github.com/mobile-dev-inc/maestro/issues/146 https://github.com/mobile-dev-inc/maestro/issues/107 So you have to change your input keyboard to QWERTY for it to work properly.

Future

• run on Element X iOS. This is already working but it need some change on the test to make it works. Could pass a PLATFORM parameter to have unique test and use conditional test.
• run specific test on both iOS and Android devices to make them communicate together. Could be possible to test room invite and join, verification, call, etc. To be done when Element X will be able to create account and create room. A main script would be able to detect the Android device and the iOS device, and run several maestro tests sequentially, using --device parameter to perform a global test.