You'll find many written sources which assert that AccessibilityId is the preferred selector to use for finding elements, but why is this the case? What's wrong with XPath?

In this talk, we will discuss Accessibility Id's in depth. How Appium uses them to find elements on iOS, Android, and web, and how developers add these Id's to apps. We will specifically focus on the performance impact of using XPath selectors instead of Accessibility Id's.

We will demonstrate techniques we can use to improve the performance of XPath selectors if accessibility Id's are missing, and discuss strategies for convincing managers and app developers to add accessibility Id's to the apps we automate.

Appium has so many desired capabilities! How many exactly? Let's count!

Join Appium contributor Jonah Stiennon as he iterates through every desired capability supported by Appium.

Many special behaviors and specific workarounds are made available only through desired capabilities. Often the key to selecting an element reliably, launching an app, or avoiding a timeout, is picking the right set of desired capabilities. There's so many that testers don't get the chance to sit down and become acquainted with them all.

There's too many to easily memorize and documentation can be sparse. Jonah will introduce novel ways to classify, visualize, and organize all of the desired capabilities, making it easier to find ones which can be useful.