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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

Devices


To do any development and debugging activity on Android devices, the first thing we need to do is enable the developer options. Different phones have different navigations for enabling developer options; here, we list a few of them:

  • Samsung Phones:
    • Launch Settings > About Device > Build number
  • LG Phones:
    • Launch Settings > About Phone > Software Information > Build number
  • Stock Android Phone:
    • Launch Settings > About phone > Build number:

Once we reach the Build number, we need to tap on it seven times, and then it will show a message saying You are now a developer!. This will enable the developer options on the device under the Settings menu. Tap on Developer options and select USB debugging. Also, ensure that the option of Verify apps over USB is turned off. This option, when turned on, stops app deployment on the physical device:

This will show a popup (as illustrated), on which we need to press OK:

Once the preceding setups are done on the device, we can connect...