Appium Essentials

Table of Contents

Appium Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Appium – Important Conceptual Background

Appium architecture

Appium on iOS

Appium on Android

The Selenium JSON wire protocol

Appium session

Desired capabilities

Android capabilities

iOS capabilities

The Appium server and its client libraries

Summary

2. Getting Started with Appium

Appium – pros and cons

System requirements for Android/iOS

Android requirements on Windows and Mac

iOS requirements

Installing different software

Appium installation for Android

Installing JDK on Windows

Installing the Android SDK

Setting the system variables for Mac

Appium for iOS

Installing Xcode

Installing Homebrew

Node and npm

Appium for different OSes

Appium for Windows

Appium for Mac

Downloading the necessary JAR files

Creating emulators and simulators

An iOS simulator

An Android emulator

Setting up an Eclipse Java project

Summary

3. The Appium GUI

The Appium server

The Appium GUI for Windows

Android Settings

Application

Launch Device

Capabilities

Advanced

General Settings

Server

Logging

Developer settings

About

Inspector

The Launch/Stop button

The Clear button

The Appium GUI for Mac

Android Settings

iOS Settings

Application

Device Settings

Advanced

Robot Settings

Save/Open configuration

Appium doctor

Inspector

The Recording panel

Summary

4. Finding Elements with Different Locators

Finding elements for Android web-based apps using the Chrome ADB plugin

Finding elements for iOS web-based apps using Safari's Develop option

Finding elements by ID

Finding elements by name

Finding elements by linkText

Finding elements by Xpath

Finding elements by cssSelector

Finding elements for native and hybrid apps

Finding elements with UIAutomatorviewer

Finding elements by ID

Finding elements by name

Finding elements by className

Finding elements by AccessibilityId

Finding elements by AndroidUIAutomator

Finding elements with Appium Inspector

Finding elements by Xpath

Finding elements by name

Finding elements by IosUIAutomation

Summary

5. Working with Appium

Important initial points

Necessary desired capabilities for Android and initiating the Android driver

Desired capabilities for native and hybrid apps

Desired capabilities for web apps

Necessary desired capabilities for iOS and initiating the iOS driver

Desired capabilities for native and hybrid apps

Desired capabilities for web apps

Automating native apps

Native Android apps

Native iOS apps

Working with web-apps

Web apps on Android

Web apps on iOS

Hybrid apps' automation

Android hybrid apps

iOS hybrid apps

Summary

6. Driving Appium on Real Devices

Important initial points

Desired capabilities for Android and initiating the Android driver

Desired capabilities for native and hybrid apps

Desired capabilities for web apps

Installing provisional profile, SafariLauncher, and ios-webkit-debug-proxy

Provisional profile

SafariLauncher app and ios-webkit-debug-proxy

Desired capabilities for iOS and initiating theiOS driver

Desired capabilities for native and hybrid Apps

Desired capabilities for web apps

Automating native apps

Android native apps

iOS native apps

Working with web apps

Web apps on Android

Web apps on iOS

Automating hybrid apps

Android hybrid apps

iOS hybrid apps

Summary

7. Advanced User Interactions

Exploring advanced user interactions

Long press

Scroll and swipe

Drag and drop

Pinch and zoom

Alerts

Spinners

The switch button

The slide SeekBar

Capturing screenshots

Capturing screenshots on test failure

Summary

Index

Appium Essentials

Appium Essentials

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Credits

Author

Manoj Hans

Reviewers

Shankar Garg

Petro Podrezo

Yalçın Yenigün

Commissioning Editor

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Acquisition Editor

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Content Development Editor

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Cover Work

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About the Author

Manoj Hans is a senior QA engineer who has rich experience in software testing. Apart from testing, he has worked in other areas of IT such as web hosting, development, and software configuration.

He was interviewed for the September 2013 edition of Software Developer's JOURNAL magazine for Selenium training in India. Manoj is passionate about automation testing and loves to automate things.

I would like to thank my family for their continued support while I spent evenings and weekends on the computer. I also want to thank Ujjawal Kumar, Nishank Jangra, and the Packt Publishing team for their support during the writing of this book.

About the Reviewers

Shankar Garg is an agile enthusiast, with expertise in automation testing. Currently, he works as a senior consultant with Xebia IT Architects India Pvt. Ltd.

He started his career as a Java developer, but his love for breaking things got him into testing. He has worked on the automation of many projects for web, mobile, and SOA technologies. Right now, he is in love with Cucumber, Selenium, Appium, and Groovy.

Prior to working with Xebia, he has worked for Jabong.com, Honeywell, and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS).

He is a Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), certified tester (ISTQB), as well as a certified programmer for Java (SCJP 5.0) and Oracle9i (OCA).

I would like to thank my family for supporting me when I was reviewing this book and making sure that I completed things on time.

Petro Podrezo is a software consultant from Toronto, Canada. He holds an HBSc degree from the University of Toronto in computer science and has specialized in software engineering. His work is mostly based on web development, but occasionally, it stretches into the realm of mobile applications development. Apart from work, Petro enjoys contributing to various open source projects and developing web apps as side projects.

Yalçın Yenigün has been working in the IT industry since 2009. He earned his bachelor's degree in computer engineering from the University of Galatasaray, Istanbul. He has experience in object-oriented design, analysis, agile, test-driven development, and Java/J2EE, in the full life cycle of the software design process. He has worked for ZeroBuffer and Vodafone as a software engineer and implemented various large-scale projects.

Yalçın currently works as a software development unit manager in BilgeAdam, where he is responsible for people management, for a division of more than 10 software engineers. He is a trainer of Java programming, Effective Java programming, Java Enterprise Edition, Java Web Services, Android programming, and the Professional SCRUM Developer courses for corporates. He has been sponsored by The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey for open source research projects as well.

I would like to thank my friend, Abdullah Aydeğer; my mathematician brother, Orçun Yenigün; and my best friend, Cansın Aldanmaz, for their support throughout the reviewing of this book. I also owe thanks to my father, Ünal Yenigün, and mother, Hanife Yenigün, for their unconditional love.

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