Optimizing WebDriverAgent Startup Performance

Matthewallen06 Nov, 2024Technology

Most of the perceived speed of an Appium test can't be improved due to the base speed of booting simulators or the UI actions themselves. The slowest part, which users were asking me how to avoid, is the initial startup of a test: the time between sending the first POST /session command and the response indicating that your test script can begin sending commands. We'll call this time period the "session creation" time.