GTAC 2015: The Uber Challenge of Cross-Application/Cross-Device Testing

http://g.co/gtac Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vYXhkvgLKun72Ix91LQDDWZQdcY5VOBqKVvI1Y6riYo/pub Apple Chow (Uber) and Bian Jiang (Uber) Soon after joining Uber in March 2015, we encountered an Uber-unique challenge while investigating UI testing tools for our mobile applications. Many of our sanity tests require our rider application and driver application communicating/coordinating their actions with each other in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario. In this talk, we will present our platform agnostic solution, called Octopus, and discuss how it coordinates communication across different apps running on different devices. This solution can be adopted for any tests that require coordination/communication across different apps or devices (e.g. a multi-user game, multi-user messaging/communication app, etc.)