Test app performance on App Automate

Identify and troubleshoot performance issues early in the development cycle.

The performance of your app directly impacts its user experience and adoption. Therefore, it is critical to identify and fix performance issues before the app is released. You can use the App Performance Testing capability to get a detailed insight into your app performance early in the development cycle.

The App Performance Testing capability (appProfiling) shows how your app performed against performance metrics such as app size, UI rendering performance, memory and CPU usage, and more during a test session. After you identify the performance issues, you can fix them and release a performant app, ensuring better user experience and adoption.

Supported OS versions

• Android: versions 10 to 16 Beta
• iOS: versions 14 to 18

Set the capability

Appium

In your Appium test scripts, set the appProfiling capability to true to capture detailed App Performance metrics.

Example

DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
HashMap<String, Object> browserstackOptions = new HashMap<String, Object>();
browserstackOptions.put("appProfiling", "true");

var capabilities = {
    'bstack:options' : {
        "appProfiling" : "true",
    },
}

desired_cap = {
	'bstack:options' : {
		"appProfiling" : "true",
	},
}

capabilities = {
    'bstack:options' => {
        "appProfiling" => "true",
    },
}

AppiumOptions capabilities = new AppiumOptions();
Dictionary<string, object> browserstackOptions = new Dictionary<string, object>();
browserstackOptions.Add("appProfiling", "true");

Espresso

To enable App Performance when running Espresso on App Automate, set the appProfiling parameter with a value of true in your cURL request for the Execute a Build API. The appProfiling parameter is a boolean, and setting it to true activates App Performance for your test.

For more information, refer to the Execute a Build API documentation.

XCUITest

To enable App Performance when running XCUITest on App Automate, set the appProfiling parameter to true in your cURL request when you execute XCUI tests. The appProfiling parameter is a boolean, and setting it to true activates App Performance for your test.

For more information, refer to the Execute XCUI tests documentation.

Next steps

• Access performance test reports for App Automate