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Nishant Verma
BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI
Mobile Test Automation with Appium
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Nishant Verma is a co-founder of TestVagrant Technologies. It’s 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
Preface
1
Chapter 1: Introduction to Appium
8
Native app 9
Mobile Web app 11
Hybrid app 13
Appium architecture 15
XCUITest 17
UiAutomator 2 18
Pros of using Appium 19
Summary 19
Chapter 2: Setting Up the Machine
20
Machine setup for macOS 21
Installing Java 21
Installing Android SDK (using the Android command-line tool) 22
Installing Android SDK (using Homebrew) (Optional) 23
Creating Android Virtual Device (Optional) 23
Genymotion emulator 25
Debug help 29
Installing Appium 30
Installing Appium server (From Source) (Optional) 32
Selecting IDE 32
App under test 32
Machine setup for Windows 32
Installing Java 33
Installing Android SDK (using Android command-line tool) 33
Installing Node JS 36
Installing Appium 36
Installing Appium server (via npm) 37
Installing Genymotion 37
Selecting IDE 38
Appium GUI app 38
Summary 44
Chapter 3: Writing Your First Appium Test
45
Creating an Appium Java project (using gradle) 46
Introduction to Cucumber 50
Writing our first Appium test 51
Running the feature file 64
Refactoring 66
Implementing the remaining steps 66
Running the scenario 72
Automating a mobile web app using Appium 73
Implementing the remaining steps 74
Automating the iOS app using Appium 77
Build the app 78
Deploying the app on the iOS Simulator 79
Via xcrun command 79
Using Appium 79
Generating Boilerplate code for iOS 82
Summary 88
Chapter 4: Understanding Desired Capabilities
89
Refactoring -1 90
Server argument 92
Refactoring -2 93
Server capabilities 97
Refactoring -3 99
Android-only capabilities 100
Refactoring -4 103
iOS-only capabilities 105
Summary 110
Chapter 5: Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators
111
Appium inspector 111
Implementing the other steps 115
UI Automator Viewer 118
Debugging mobile web apps using Chrome Inspect 121
Summary 123
Chapter 6: How to Synchronize Tests
124
AppiumDriver 124
Implicit wait 126
Explicit wait 126
Fluent wait 129
Summary 131
Chapter 7: How to Automate Gestures
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