[CB-12501] Don't use XPath selectors in Camera Appium tests for Android

• Type: Test
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Appium, cordova-plugin-camera
• Labels: triaged
• Assignee: Alexander Sorokin
• Reporter: Alexander Sorokin
• Created: 23/Feb/17 14:30
• Updated: 27/Feb/17 09:36
• Resolved: 27/Feb/17 09:36

Description

Currently Appium tests use XPath selectors, which are sloppy and buggy. For example, we are forced to select certain elements quite a few times in a row to get the one that we need:

return driver
    .waitForElementByXPath('//android.widget.TextView[@text="Gallery"]', 20000)
    .elementByXPath('//android.widget.TextView[@text="Gallery"]') // multiple calls here for an Android bug:
    .elementByXPath('//android.widget.TextView[@text="Gallery"]') // on Windows + Android emulator, element selection
    .elementByXPath('//android.widget.TextView[@text="Gallery"]') // is completely wonky. Unfortunately duplicating element()
    .elementByXPath('//android.widget.TextView[@text="Gallery"]') // calls is the only workaround identified thus far.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #255