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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

Testing mobile web applications on Android using Appium


Appium drives the automation of Android applications using a UI Automator bundled with Andorid SDK. The process is pretty much the same as testing on iOS.

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

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

Getting Ready

Testing apps on Android is similar to testing on iOS. For Android, we will use a real...