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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

Appium inspector


We read about Appium inspector briefly in Chapter 3, Writing Your First Appium Test, to find out the element we want to click on. It's a handy tool for element discovery and understating the hierarchy. Let's take a thorough look at Appium inspector and the possibilities it opens for us. Let's launch the Appium inspector by following these steps:

  1. Launch the emulator.
  2. Ensure that the Quikr app is installed on the emulator.

  1. Click on the Android Settings icon in the Appium app, select the Package as com.quikr, and select the Launch Activity as com.quikr.old.SplashActivity. (Refer Appendix to learn to find out Package Name and Launch Activity)
  2. Select the Platform Name as Android, Automation Name as Appium, and the Platform Version as 5.1 Lollipop (API Level 22).
  3. Check the Device Name box and enter Nexus.
  4. Click on the Launch button.
  5. Once the Appium console shows the following output, click on the Appium Inspector icon:
[HTTP] --> GET /wd/hub/status {}
[MJSONWP] Calling AppiumDriver...