📱Mobile Automation with Appium

Prepared by: Yana

​What is Appium

• Open source test automation framework

  • Native, Hybrid & Mobile Web Apps

  • iOS, Android & Windows apps

• Cross-platform compatibility

• Uses vendor provided frameworks

  • iOS: XCUITest

  • Android: UIAutomator2

  • Windows: WinAppDriver

• Wraps vendor provided frameworks into Webdriver API

  • Supports popular programming languages

• Free to use any test runner and test framework

What is WebDriverIO?

• JavaScript E2E automation framework, lets you automate modern web applications in different browsers & OS.

• supports automating mobile applications in iOS & Android

• Used by major companies such as Google, Netflix, Microsoft, Mozilla, etc…

Why WebDriverIO is popular?

• Really easy to get started

• Easy readable code

• Front-end friendly

  • Write tests using JavaScript

• Huge community support & actively maintained

• Open Source

  • Free to use for anyone

Setup & Installation (Windows)

• Node.js (node v16) (latest version of Node is not compatible with WebdriverIO and Appium.

• Jav a JDK

  • set JAVA_HOME variable ( when it is set you’ll be recognize that JAVA is installed in your machine

  • to confirm just key in

    java --version

  • Verify java_home path in system Environment variables and Path

• Android Studio

  • Make sure to select Android Virtual Device

  • Set ANDROID_HOME path

    • type in your command prompt

    where android

• Setup Emulator

  • Create Android Virtual Device

  • Create 2 virtual device with different android version

• Appium Inspector Setup

  • This will allow us to find elements

• Appium Global Installation

  npm install -g appium@next

  Run appium doctor command to make sure all pre-requisite are installed

  npm i -g appium-doctor

  This will diagnose if all the require package and path are correct

  appium-doctor --android