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Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

By : UNMESH GUNDECHA
5 (1)
Book Image

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

5 (1)
By: UNMESH GUNDECHA

Overview of this book

This book is an incremental guide that will help you learn and use the advanced features of the Selenium toolset including the WebDriver API in various situations to build a reliable test automation. You start off by setting up the test development environment and gain tips on the advanced locater strategy and the effective use of the Selenium WebDriver API. After that, the use of design patterns such as data - driven tests and PageFactory are demonstrated. You will then be familiarised with extending Selenium WebDriver API by implementing custom tasks and setting up your own distributed environment to run tests in parallel for cross-browser testing. Finally, we give you some tips on integrating Selenium WebDriver with other popular tools and testing mobile applications. By the end of this book, you will have learned enough to solve complex testing issues on your own.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Setting up Appium for testing mobile applications


Before we start testing mobile apps with Appium, we need to download and install Appium. We will use the GUI version of Appium. If you wish to run tests for iOS on iPhone or iPad, you need to install and set up Appium on a Mac OS X machine. To test Android applications, you can set up the test environment on a Windows or Linux machine. Setting up Appium is fairly easy with the new Appium App for Mac OS X.

Note

In addition to the GUI version, you can also install the Appium server, which runs with Node.js.

How to do it...

You can download the latest Appium binaries from http://appium.io/. Click on the Download Appium button on the front page. It will download the version based on your choice of operating system:

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

  1. You can install Appium on a Mac by launching the installer and copying Appium to the applications folder.

    When you launch Appium from the applications for the first time, it...