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Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
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Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python

By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Appium


Before we start testing mobile apps with Appium, we need to download and install Appium. We will use the Appium GUI version. If you wish to run tests for iOS on iPhone or iPad, then you need to set up Appium on a Mac OS X machine. For testing Android applications, you can set up the environment on a Windows or Linux machine. Setting up Appium is fairly easy with the new Appium app for Mac OS X. You can download the latest Appium binaries from http://appium.io/. Follow the given steps to install Appium:

  1. Click on the Download Appium button on the front page and you will be directed to the download page.

  2. Select the version specific to the operating system you are using from the list as shown in the following screenshot:

    Note

    In the following examples, we will be using Appium on Mac OS X.

  3. You can install Appium on Mac by launching the installer and copying Appium to the Applications folder.

    When you launch Appium from the Applications menu for the first time, it will ask for authorization...