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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

You're reading from Mobile Test Automation with Appium Mobile application testing made easy

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280168

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Appium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

Verma

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Introduction to Appium FREE CHAPTER

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

Emulator

An emulator is an application that emulates a real mobile device, which lets you prototype the app under development or allows you to test out the app without actually buying a physical device. When we install Android SDK, we can create emulators based on the available API level, CPU, and RAM. We learned how to set up an Android Virtual Device using Android SDK in Chapter 2, Setting Up the Machine. We also briefly learned about the emulator and how to download one virtual device.

In this chapter, let's take a detailed look into Genymotion, which provides Android emulators that are faster and better performing compared to Android SDK:

To install app on the Genymotion emulator, the normal adb commands will work fine, as shown:

adb install /path/to/app/<app_name>.apk

If the app under test is dependent on Google Play, we need to perform these steps:

Look for the Google Play Store APK, com.android.vending-x.x.xx.apk, for the device API level and install it.
Flash the emulator with the...

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Authors (1)

Verma

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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