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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787280168
Pages 256 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Author (1):
Nishant Verma Nishant Verma
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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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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
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 5. Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators

In the last chapter, we saw how to start Appium server programmatically and use the desired capabilities to set the context for test execution. We saw how to launch an emulator from code and invoke the test on an app that is preinstalled. We also took a look at detailed Android-specific capabilities and iOS-specific capabilities and refactored the test to use a few.

To write tests, we need to find the locators, and sometimes these locators are not easily available. We need to make our own locators using xPath in that case. In this chapter, we will take a look at the following:

  • How to use Appium inspector to find locators
  • How to use UI Automator Viewer
  • How to use Chrome browser to debug mobile web apps
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Profile icon Nishant Verma
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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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