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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

<p>Selenium WebDriver is a popular automated testing tool for web applications. Python is one of the top programming languages and when used with Selenium it can automate and test web applications. Using Python's unittest module, you can write test cases in Selenium. Over the years, Selenium has become a very powerful testing platform and many organizations are adopting Selenium WebDriver for creating automated user interface tests.</p> <p>The book's main aim is to cover the fundamentals related to Python Selenium testing. You will learn how the Selenium WebDriver Python API can be integrated with CI and Build tools to allow tests to be run while building applications. This book will guide you through using the Selenium WebDriver Python client library as well as other tools from the Selenium project. Towards the end of this book, you'll get to grips with Selenium Grid, which is used for running tests in parallel using nodes for cross-browser testing. It will also give you a basic overview of the concepts, while helping you improve your practical testing skills with Python and Selenium.</p>
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Learning Selenium Testing Tools with Python
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Testing on Android


Appium drives the automation of Android applications using the UI Automator bundled with Android SDK. The process is quite similar to testing on iOS.

Appium works as an HTTP server and receives the commands from test scripts over JSON wire protocol. Appium sends these commands to the UI Automator so that they can be executed on the app launched in an emulator or real device. While doing so, Appium translates the JSON commands into the UI Automator Java commands that are understood by Android SDK. This process is shown in the following diagram:

When a command is executed against the app on the emulator or device, the target app sends the response back to the UI Automator, which sends it back to Appium. It translates the UI Automator responses into Selenium WebDriver JSON wire protocol responses and sends them back to the test script.

Writing a test for Android

Testing apps on Android is pretty much similar to what we did for iOS. For Android, we will use a real device instead...