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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

Machine setup for Windows


Machine setup for Windows will be a little different from that of Mac as we don't have the concept of a package manager. We will need to download the individual installers and run them to install the software we need. Let's start with installing Java, Android SDK, and then appium.

Installing Java

Following are the steps to install Java:

  1. Visit the JDK download page and download the (jdk-8uversion-windows-xxx.exe) package based on your machine configuration (either the amd64 or x64).
  2. Install Java from the downloaded package.
  3. Once installed, bring up the search box and type advanced system setting. Click on the View advanced system settings search result.
  4. On the system properties window, click on the Advanced tab and click on Environment Variables.
  5. Under the System variables section, click on New and add a variable name--JAVA_HOME--and check for the installed location of the JDK. It will be similar to C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.8.xxx.
  6. Under the System variables section, scroll...