Mobile Test Automation with Appium

Key Features

• How to automate testing with Appium
• Apply techniques for creating comprehensive tests
• How to test on physical devices or emulators

Book Description

Appium is an open source test automation framework for mobile applications. It allows you to test all three types of mobile applications: native, hybrid, and mobile web. It allows you to run the automated tests on actual devices, emulators, and simulators. When every mobile app is made on at least two platforms, iOS and Android, you need a tool that allows you to test across platforms.

Having two different frameworks for the same app increases the cost of the product and time to maintain it as well. Appium helps save this cost.

With mobile app growth exploding, mobile app automation is mainstream now. In this book, author Nishant Verma provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts of Appium while diving into how to set up appium & Cucumber-jvm test automation framework, implement page object design pattern, automate gestures, test execution on emulators and physical devices, and implement continuous integration with Jenkins. The mobile app we have referenced in this book is Quikr because of its relatively lower learning curve to understand the application. It’s a local classifieds shopping app.

What you will learn

• Discover Appium and how to set up a automation framework
• Understand desired capabilities and learn to find element locators
• Learn to automate gestures and synchronize tests
• Take an incremental approach to implement page object pattern
• Run tests on emulators or physical devices
• Set up Jenkins to run mobile automation tests
• Discover tricks to record video of test execution, inter app automation concepts
• Learn to run Appium tests in parallel on multiple devices

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction to Appium
Chapter 2. Setting Up the Machine
Chapter 3. Writing Your First Appium Test
Chapter 4. Understanding Desired Capabilities
Chapter 5. Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators
Chapter 6. How to Synchronize Tests
Chapter 7. How to Automate Gestures
Chapter 8. Design Patterns in Test Automation
Chapter 9. How to Run Appium Test on Devices and Emulators
Chapter 10. Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Chapter 11. Appium Tips and Tricks
Chapter 12. Appium Desktop App
Chapter 13. Appendix