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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

Installing Google Play services in the Genymotion emulator


Genymotion is one of the fastest Android emulators available for use. One drawback of using Genymotion is that it comes without the Google Play Store and Google apps. This means that some of the apps for testing that require the Google Play services framework may not work on the emulator.

However, the good news is that we can install Google Play services by following these steps:

  • Start the Genymotion emulator
  • Based on the Android version configured for the emulator, we need to download the flash-able Google Play services gapps-lp-yyyymmdd-signed.zip file from

    This installs Google Play services on the Genymotion emulator.

  • Click on OK and reboot the emulator
  • Once the device is rebooted, you will notice that the Google Apps will start showing in the emulator
  • To install Google Play Store on the device, we need to download the Play Store installer com.android.vending-Major.Minor.Hotfix APK file and install it on the emulator
  • Once done, launch...