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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

Creating an Appium Java project (using gradle)


Let's create a sample Appium Java project in IntelliJ. This forms the foundation of all the code-related and Appium-related discussions we will have in the subsequent chapters. The following steps help you to achieve this:

  1. Launch IntelliJ and click on Create New Projecton the welcome screen.
  2. On the New Project screen, select Gradle from the left pane. Project SDK should get populated with the Java version.
  3. Click on Next, enter the GroupId as com.test and ArtifactId as HelloAppium. The version will already be populated; click on Next.
  4. Check the Use auto-import option and ensure that Gradle JVM is populated. Click on Next. In case the Gradle JVM is not populated, please follow the below steps:
    1. Click on Configure > Project Defaults > Project Structure:

    1. Choose Project under Project Settings as shown below:
    1. Click on New... button.
    2. Point it to the JDK installed on your machine.
    1. Click on OK to close the pop up and go to the new Project creation screen...