Macaca
Macaca is an open-source automation solution for multi-platform.
Macaca Core
At its core, Macaca is an end-to-end test automation framework consisting of clients, servers and drivers.
Client
Macaca doesn't limit what languages you will use to write your tests. You can choose to write your tests in Node.js, Java or Python, using respective clients:
Server
Macaca's core is a REST API web server. It connects with clients, listens for requesting, and executes request commands on a mobile device, and a desktop browser, responses with results conforming HTTP response protocol.
The beauty of a client/server architecture is that REST API and W3C WebDriver Wire Protocol opens the opportunities that test codes can be written any common languages, as long as it has a http client API. On the other hand, the server can be on a different machine, or in cloud.
Driver
Macaca is "cross-platform". It means you can use the same API to write test scripts, and same test scripts to test your apps running on devices such as iOS, Android or desktops. To achieve this, we have drivers for different platforms:
- Macaca's iOS WebDriver is written in Swift and built in-house.
- Macaca's Android WebDriver is built in-house, and supports Android UIAutomator 2.0.
Macaca supports major browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Safari. It also supports electron environment.
Native, Mobile, Hybrid
- Native means apps written with iOS or android SDKs.
- Mobile web means apps written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript and displayed via a mobile device browser such as Safari, Chrome or Webview in iOS and android.
- Hybrid is apps created by webview in native app.
- Web means apps written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
Macaca Community Ecosystem
Macaca DataHub
Macaca DataHub is a continuous data provider for development, testing, staging and production.
Reliable
Reliable is a testing management suite with continuous delivery support.
NoSmoke
NoSmoke is a cross platform UI crawler which generate and execute UI test cases.
App Inspector
App-inspector is a mobile UI viewer in browser. View the UI in a tree view, and generate XPath automatically.
Macaca UITest
Macaca UITest runs mocha in a browser environment.
Macaca Reporter
Macaca Reporter is a reporter used for mocha and other frameworks.
Torchjs
Torchjs is an excellent unit testing framework for browser environment.
UI Recorder
UI Recorder is a zero cost UI test case recorder like Selenium IDE.
Source Code
Source code is maintained in different repos within macacajs.
It is recommended to get started from the official site, since there are many repos in macacajs.
Help and Support
License
The MIT License (MIT)