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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


This chapter completes our journey learning mobile test automation with Appium. It took us on a tour where we understood the importance of mobile app testing and automation. We learned about the mobile testing ecosystem, how to set up a machine, and how to install the respective software and tools. We learned how to use the Appium app, find locators, and author tests. We also learned how to automate gestures and how to introduce synchronization in tests. We saw how to run these tests on devices and emulators, including setting up Genymotion emulators. We also discussed how to set up Jenkins and have tests automated when the source code is checked in Github.

Lastly, in this chapter, we learned some Appium tricks for switching between WebView and Native, taking screenshots, and embedding them in the report. We explored how to record the test execution device screen and also how to vary the quality of the recording. We learned how to interact with other apps and traverse back to the...