e2e framework benchmark — ios 2026-10-25
Run eas-ios-tester-army, started 2026-10-25T12:16:14.841Z
Fairness rules
- Same
.appfor every framework (sha256 recorded above) - Zero LLM calls
- Same assertions per canonical test id
- Same retry helpers (dropped first tap, dropped deep link, system alerts)
- Fresh app launch per test
retries=0- Frameworks run sequentially
caffeinate -dimsheld for the run- Warm medians exclude rep 1 (cold)
- Machine-readable reporters only
- Host otherwise idle; load average recorded
- Android
simcounts the app and every framework's on-device helpers (uiautomator, instrumentation runners, agent-device, Argent, warden-uiad), matched case-insensitively - Host processes are tracked by pid and start time, so a reused pid is never counted
- Android animation scales are reset to the device's original values before every framework and restored at the end
Summary
| Framework | Status | Version | Suite median (warm) | p95 | Ratio | Cold rep 1 | Cold-start cost | Prepare | Teardown | Overhead | Pass rate | Flake | Residue | Footprint (LOC / deps) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tester-army | ✓ ok | e2e 0.20.0 | 132.34 s | 133.43 s | 1.00× | 151.03 s | 18.69 s | 0 ms | 523 ms | 2.21 s | 100% | 0% | 0 proc / 1 app / 1 path | 307 LOC / 0 B |
Warm suite wall time
- tester-army
Bar = warm median. Whisker = p95. Dot = cold rep 1. Lower is faster; ratios are against the fastest framework.
Per-test medians (ms)
| Test | tester-army |
|---|---|
| onboarding steps through to sign-in | 6032 (1.00×) |
| invalid email and short password show field errors | 20867 (1.00×) |
| a locked account shows the form alert | 12799 (1.00×) |
| valid credentials land on todos | 14889 (1.00×) |
| add, complete and filter todos | 21196 (1.00×) |
| open a todo, mark it done, then delete it | 18171 (1.00×) |
| deep link opens a todo by id | 18056 (1.00×) |
| settings shows the account, toggles switches and signs out | 18070 (1.00×) |
Median per test
- tester-army
Spread across warm reps
Whisker = min to max. Shaded box = min to p95. Tick = median. A distribution carries no quartiles, so the box is not an interquartile range.
Per-step latency
- tester-army
Whisker = min to max. Shaded box = min to p95. Tick = median. Only frameworks that report steps appear.
| Framework | Steps | Median | p95 | Max |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| tester-army | 592 | 494 ms | 3.18 s | 3.98 s |
Resources
- tester-army
CPU
Memory
| Framework | Scope | CPU-s / rep | CPU avg | CPU peak | RSS avg | RSS peak |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| tester-army | host | 17.01 s | 13.9% | 508.1% | 599.5 MB | 2.0 GB |
| tester-army | sim | — | 118.9% | 560.4% | 36.8 GB | 37.0 GB |
CPU-s / rep is the host CPU time of the timed run (warm median) and the headline. CPU avg and peak are ps %cpu, a decaying average on macOS: they move with suite length, do not judge on them.
Where the CPU goes
One table per framework, from the warm-median rep's timed run (the rep whose host CPU-seconds is the lower median). Rows are processes grouped by label (top 12 per scope, the rest in other); host is the framework's own process tree, sim the simulator's launchd_sim tree (iOS only). Share is of the scope's CPU-seconds. RSS is the label's summed RSS per 500 ms tick (0 where it had no process). Spawns counts distinct pids a tick saw: a process that lives between two ticks is only seen through the (exit charge) rows (CPU of a child the bench ran, booked at its exit), so many short-lived xcrun simctl calls read low in Spawns and in CPU.
tester-army
| Process | Scope | CPU-s | Share | RSS avg | RSS peak | Spawns |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| xcodebuild | host | 14.26 s | 84.0% | 217.0 MB | 218.2 MB | 1 |
| node entry.js | host | 1.05 s | 6.2% | 84.9 MB | 92.8 MB | 1 |
| snapshot-bridge | host | 0.63 s | 3.7% | 116.2 MB | 116.3 MB | 1 |
| (node) (exit charge) | host | 0.62 s | 3.7% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| node e2e | host | 0.35 s | 2.1% | 109.4 MB | 132.3 MB | 1 |
| (node) | host | 0.03 s | 0.2% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| other (exit charge) | host | 0.03 s | 0.2% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| (ps) | host | 0.01 s | 0.1% | 27.9 KB | 1.7 MB | 5 |
| simctl | host | 0.00 s | 0.0% | 20.5 MB | 20.5 MB | 1 |
| DTServiceHub | host | 0.00 s | 0.0% | 16.8 MB | 16.8 MB | 1 |
| (pgrep) | host | 0.00 s | 0.0% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| (simctl) | host | 0.00 s | 0.0% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| other | host | 0.00 s | 0.0% | 0 B | 0 B | 0 |
| iOS | sim | 107.48 s | 60.4% | 35.1 GB | 35.2 GB | 289 |
| wardenexample | sim | 49.85 s | 28.0% | 380.4 MB | 441.8 MB | 9 |
| AgentDeviceRunnerUITests-Runner | sim | 15.86 s | 8.9% | 271.0 MB | 271.2 MB | 1 |
| bun cli.ts | sim | 2.56 s | 1.4% | 254.0 MB | 264.4 MB | 1 |
| CoreSimulatorBridge | sim | 0.57 s | 0.3% | 80.6 MB | 80.6 MB | 1 |
| simctl | sim | 0.54 s | 0.3% | 534.1 KB | 20.8 MB | 8 |
| launchd_sim | sim | 0.46 s | 0.3% | 51.8 MB | 51.8 MB | 1 |
| mlhostd | sim | 0.24 s | 0.1% | 135.3 KB | 14.3 MB | 3 |
| triald | sim | 0.16 s | 0.1% | 96.6 MB | 96.7 MB | 1 |
| storekitd | sim | 0.15 s | 0.1% | 128.2 MB | 128.2 MB | 1 |
| launchctl | sim | 0.10 s | 0.1% | 36.7 KB | 9.4 MB | 1 |
| ps | sim | 0.06 s | 0.0% | 1.9 MB | 1.9 MB | 263 |
| other | sim | 0.07 s | 0.0% | 446.4 MB | 870.8 MB | 8 |
Residue
- tester-army: driver apps: com.callstack.agentdevice.runner.uitests.xctrunner; paths: /Users/expo/.agent-device-bench/tester-army (4.9 MB)
Unsupported / failed
None.