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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

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Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280168

Pages 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Application Testing

Author (1):

Nishant Verma

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Appium

2. Setting Up the Machine

3. Writing Your First Appium Test

4. Understanding Desired Capabilities

5. Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators

6. How to Synchronize Tests

7. How to Automate Gestures

8. Design Patterns in Test Automation

9. How to Run Appium Test on Devices and Emulators

10. Continuous Integration with Jenkins

11. Appium Tips and Tricks

12. Appium Desktop App

13. Appendix

Chapter 4. Understanding Desired Capabilities

In the last chapter, we saw that the boilerplate code generated by Appium Inspector had a bunch of lines that used the DesiredCapabilities class and passed a certain set of keys and values to the Appium server. In this chapter, we will take a detailed look at the following:

Appium server arguments
Desired capabilities for Android
Desired capabilities for iOS
iOS XCUITest related iOS capabilities

Before we take a dive in there, we will refactor the code written in the last chapter and introduce the concept of hooks before and after, which acts like setup and tear down and will take care of starting the Appium server programmatically and then stopping it.

In test automation with Appium, all the commands are executed in the context of a session. A session is initiated by a client with a server in ways either specific to Android or iOS and with a JSON object called desired capabilities.

Let's refactor the existing code to add handling the Appium server...

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Authors (1)

Nishant Verma

Nishant Verma is a co-founder of TestVagrant Technologies. Its a service start-up addressing testing solutions for B2C companies with a focus on mobile and web, and helps companies deliver faster and reliably. Nishant has 11 years of experience in software development and testing. He has worked with IT companies such as ThoughtWorks Inc., Aditi Technologies, and Altisource. He has extensive experience in setting up agile testing practices, functional and non-functional test automation, mentoring, and coaching. In the past, he has worked on web UIs and specializes in building test solutions in the mobile domain. He has hands-on experience with test automation tools such as WebDriver (Selenium2), Calabash, Frank, Appium, Watin, Sikuli, QTP, and DeviceAnywhere. He actively maintains his own website on testing techniques, agile testing, automation techniques, and general learning. He has contributed to leading testing journals such as Testing Circus and Software Developer's Journal, and has been an active speaker at vodQA (testing event of Thoughtworks). Nishant has authored a reference book on how to use Appium for automating Android apps using Java, which is available on Gitbook. It has received close to 200,000 views, 40,000 readers online, and has been downloaded around 3,000 times.

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