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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

By : Nishant Verma
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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

By: Nishant Verma

Overview of this book

Appium is an open source test automation framework for mobile applications. It allows you to test all three types of mobile applications: native, hybrid, and mobile web. It allows you to run the automated tests on actual devices, emulators, and simulators. Today, when every mobile app is made on at least two platforms, iOS and Android, you need a tool that allows you to test across platforms. Having two different frameworks for the same app increases the cost of the product and time to maintain it as well. Appium helps save this cost. With mobile app growth exploding, mobile app automation is mainstream now. In this book, author Nishant Verma provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts of Appium while diving into how to set up appium & Cucumber-jvm test automation framework, implement page object design pattern, automate gestures, test execution on emulators and physical devices, and implement continuous integration with Jenkins. The mobile app we have referenced in this book is Quikr because of its relatively lower learning curve to understand the application. It's a local classifieds shopping app.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
5
Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators
7
How to Automate Gestures
9
How to Run Appium Test on Devices and Emulators

Summary


In this Appendix, we covered different topics for a deeper insight into Cucumber. We learned about how Cucumber works and the importance of BDD, and we gained a deep insight into Gherkin and the different keywords Gherkin exposes. We also learned what hooks are and how to use them. We learned the different ways of running Cucumber tests.

We also learned how to look up an Android package name and find out different activities for an app. This is needed when we want to launch the Appium session on a pre-existing app on an Android device. We also learned how we can find the package name and Launch Activity from Appium itself.

We learnt that the Genymotion emulator doesn't come with Google Play services installed. We learned how to flash the device with the Google apps installer file and to install Google Play services on the Genymotion emulator.