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Run tests using Marathon Cloud

1.0.15 Latest version

Run tests using Marathon Cloud

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Run tests using Marathon Cloud

Run tests using Marathon Cloud

Installation

Copy and paste the following snippet into your .yml file.

              

- name: Run tests using Marathon Cloud

uses: MarathonLabs/action-test@1.0.15

Learn more about this action in MarathonLabs/action-test

Choose a version

Marathon Cloud GitHub Action

With this action you can easily run your Android instrumentation tests.

Marathon Cloud is designed to run all your automated tests in just 15 minutes, no matter how many tests you have.

Quick example

A really basic example building an app apk, test apk and running tests:

name: Run tests
on: push
jobs:
  run-tests:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
  steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
    - name: Build app
      run: ./gradlew assembleDebug assembleAndroidTest
    - name: Run tests
      uses: MarathonLabs/action-test@1.0.14
      with:
        apiKey: ${{ secrets.MARATHON_CLOUD_API_TOKEN }}
        application: app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
        testApplication: app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/debug/app-debug-androidTest.apk
        platform: android
        output: "./results"
        version: "1.0.38"

Inputs

Name Description Default Example
apiKey (required) Marathon Cloud API key cafebabe
version (required) marathon-cloud cli version to use 1.0.0
application (required) Application binary path.
Android: application should point to the APK file.
iOS: application should point to an ARM compatible Simulator build packaged in an ipa format or a zip archive.
Android: app/build/outputs/apk/debug/app-debug.apk
iOS: /home/user/workspace/sample.zip or /home/user/workspace/sample.ipa
testApplication (required) Test application binary path.
Android: test_application should point to the test .apk file for your app.
iOS: test_application should point to an ARM compatible iOS Test Runner app packaged in an ipa format or a zip archive.
Android: app/build/outputs/apk/androidTest/debug/app-debug-androidTest.apk
iOS: /home/user/workspace/sampleUITests-Runner.zip or /home/user/workspace/sampleUITests-Runner.ipa
platform (required) Testing platform `` Android or iOS
osVersion (optional) Android or iOS OS version. For Android one of [10, 11, 12, 13, 14]. For iOS one of [16.4, 17.2] Android: 11; iOS: 16.4 12, 17.2, etc.
systemImage (optional) OS-specific system image. For Android only `` default, google_apis, etc.
output (optional) Output folder for test run results `` output
outputGlob (optional) Only files matching this glob will be downloaded, i.e. 'tests/**' will download only the JUnit xml files `` tests/**
link (optional) Link to commit `` ``
isolated (optional) Run each test in isolation, i.e. isolated batching false true, false
flavor (optional) Type of tests to run native native, js-test-appium, python-robotframework-appium
filterFile (optional) File containing test filters in YAML format, following the schema described at https://docs.marathonlabs.io/runner/configuration/filtering/#filtering-logic. For iOS see also https://docs.marathonlabs.io/runner/next/ios#test-plans. `` ``
wait (optional) Wait for test run to finish if true, exits after triggering a run if false. `` true
name (optional) Name for run, for example it could be description of commit. `` AmazingRun
device (optional) Device type. For Android one of [phone, tv, watch]. For iOS one of [iPhone-14, iPhone-15] Android: phone; iOS: iPhone-14 phone, tv, watch, iPhone-14, iPhone-15
xcodeVersion (optional) Xcode version. Only for iOS. Possible values: [14.3.1, 15.2] 14.3.1 14.3.1, 15.2
xctestplanFilterFile (optional) Test filters supplied as .xctestplan file `` ``
xctestplanTargetName (optional) Target name to use for test filtering in .xctestplan `` ``
xctestrunEnv (optional) Xctestrun environment variables, format: 'VAR1=VALUE1,VAR2=VALUE2' `` VAR1=VALUE1,VAR2=VALUE2
xctestrunTestEnv (optional) Xctestrun testing environment variables, format: 'VAR1=VALUE1,VAR2=VALUE2' `` VAR1=VALUE1,VAR2=VALUE2
ignoreTestFailures (optional) When tests fail and this option is true then GHA will exit with code 0. By default, GHA will exit with code 1 in case of test failures and 0 for passing tests [possible values: true, false] false true, false
pullFiles (optional) Pull files from devices after the test run. The format is ROOT1:PATH1,ROOT2:PATH2 where ROOT is one of [EXTERNAL_STORAGE, APP_DATA] and PATH is a relative path to the target file or directory. Note: Files with the same name and path from different devices may overwrite each other. `` EXTERNAL_STORAGE:Documents/some-results,APP_DATA:files/my_folder/some_file.txt
resultFile (optional) Result file path in a machine-readable format. You can specify the format via extension [yaml,json] result.json some_result.json
branch (optional) Branch for run, for example it could be git branch like develop or feature/about-screen `` develop
project (optional) The unique identifier (slug) for the project `` ``
grantedPermission (optional) Grant permission to application. Important: Granting is conducted before each test batch (not each test). If you need to grant before each test, please use --isolated mode. Available permissions: calendar, contacts-limited, contacts, location, location-always, photos-add, photos, media-library, microphone, motion, reminders, siri `` motion,siri,calendar

marathon-cloud version

For action version 0 the latest supported version is 0.3.11. Any version starting with 1.0.0 will require action version 1 to work.

Support matrix:

action version cli version supported latest version
1 1.0.0<=..<2.0.0 not supported
0 <1.0.0 0.3.11

Developing

The action source is located at /src. The action is written in TypeScript and compiled to a single javascript file with ncc. It's expected to checkin lib/index.js to the repository.

To setup the development environment, run the following commands:

$ npm install

To build the action script, run the following command:

$ npm run build

To test the action, we can use the workflow Test workflow to trigger a build.

LICENSE

MIT