L&D series: OpenSTF in 2023

2 min readSep 22, 2023

--

Learning and Development chapter 25.

DISCLAIMER: I’m using MacBook Pro M1.

INSTALLATION

You can install the requirements here. I’m using nodejs ≥ 16.x.x and it’s fine (for now).

Instant command:

brew install rethinkdb graphicsmagick zeromq protobuf yasm pkg-config cmake
npm install -g @devicefarmer/stf

rethinkdb --bind all --http-port 1234
stf local

We can use https://github.com/tmux/tmux to detach the screen view and then close it.

Make sure to check the installation is success by stf doctor.

By default, we can run both real device and simulator from OpenSTF.

Since I don’t own any iOS devices, but it also seems easy to start the iOS device farm.

See the requirements here.

Clone the repo with this method.

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/DeviceFarmer/ios-minicap.git
cd ios-minicap
git submodule init
git submodule update

Do not forget to connect your device before run command ./build.sh. After that then run ./run.sh also continue with this

cd example
npm install
node app.js

Open http://localhost:9002 in browser to see the iOS STF UI.

Reference: