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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 chapter, we learned how to set up Genymotion emulators and how to configure them. We learned how to alter the desired capabilities to run the test on emulators. We learned how to set up Android devices for development and testing by turning on the developer options. We also learned how to turn on USB debugging and run the test on an Android device by passing the udid. We explored different libraries to install (via Homebrew) for running the Appium test on an actual iOS device. We also discussed how to get the UDID of iOS devices. We went through the steps to start ios-webkit-debug-proxy and the desired capabilities to use for an iOS test. In the next chapter, we will learn how to run the Appium test via the continuous integration tool, Jenkins. We will go through the detailed process of setting up Jenkins and running the test.