Mobile testing is different than desktop web testing. It needs the right tool for the job. In this case, we need robots. Lots of them. Lots of little robot fingers touching lots of little mobile device screens. In this talk, Jason Huggins will bring out some robots from his lab and demonstrate how you, too, can join in the robot revolution that will destroy civilization… and make a decent living testing mobile apps in the process.

1. Teaching a Robot
to Play Angry Birds
Jason Huggins, Sauce Labs Inc

2. Jason Huggins
Co-creator, The Selenium Project
Co-founder, CTO, Sauce Labs Inc
twitter: @hugs
email: hugs@saucelabs.com

3. @hugs

4. bitbeam.org

8. Motorized Pin Art

9. pinthing.com

10. Maker Faire

12. Gridbeam

15. The “Clicker”

17. LEGO Technic
Compatibility
• Beam width: 5/16 inches
• Distance between holes: 8mm
• Hole diameter: 4.8 mm

19. Hypothesis:
• Selenium is a software-based robot.
• Selenium’s mission is to mimic and
automate how users interact with an
application.
• For mobile, this means handling real
devices.
• To test mobile, could I take Selenium out of
the screen and into the real world?

20. My unscientific method:
• Electronics: Arduino
• Mechanics: Bitbeam
- Lego Technic compatible building toy
- Made from Basswood
- Designed with 3D tool OpenSCAD
- Lasercut at TechShop San Francisco
• Software: Python, OpenCV

21. BitbeamBot I:
The Angry-Birds Playing
Functional Testing Robot

23. “Too Slow!”

24. “Delta!”

25. BitbeamBot II:
The Faster Angry-Birds Playing
Functional Testing Robot

28. Moar Demos!

29. Links
http://github.com/hugs/bitbeam
http://bitbeam.org
http://pinthing.com
http://gridbeam.biz/
http://saucelabs.com