Appium plugin that provides complete test logs, video recording of test and device logs(logcat and syslogs) for easy debugging of tests.

Features

Complete Session Log: (IOS and Android)

Monitor all webdriver session api calls made by the test will full request and response details.

text.logs.mov

Live video stream: (IOS and Android)

Watch the live video of the test execution

video_stream.mp4

Device Logs: (IOS and Android)

View device logs from android(logcat) and Ios(syslogs) devices/emulators.

App Profiling: (Android)

Get insignts on the performance of the application by analysing the CPU and Memory usage during the test execution.

Network Logs: (Android)

Monitor the network requests made by native/hybrid appilcation(inside WebView) and web based tests that runs on chrome browser

http_log.1.mov

Execute webdriver.io scripts: (Android & IOS)

Ability to run webdriver.io script on a running session for better debugging.

editor.mp4

And lot more yet to come....

Installation

This plugin requires Appium version 2.0. Once appium 2.0 is installed, run the bellow command to install the plugin

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-dashboard

Plugin Activation

Once the installion is done, the plugin needs to be activated each time when the appium server is started using below command

appium --use-plugin=appium-dashboard

Now navigate to http://localhost:4723/dashboard to open the web app which will show the complete list of tests and its details that are being executed.

NOTE: This plugin is still in beta phase and heavy testing is being done to eliminate all possible issues along with lot other new features.