Inspection of page elements on mobile applications

For mobile applications, there are various tools that can be used for each mobile device, such as the iOS simulator and Android emulator. In this section, we will discuss the Inspector tool built into the Appium Client.

Appium inspector

When building page object classes for mobile applications, the Appium API is used to test the elements on each page. Appium has its own Inspector tool that allows users to inspect the application in an iOS simulator or Android emulator. Once the mobile application is loaded in the simulator or emulator, the user would then run the Inspector tool, which will embed it in a frame inside the tool. Users can then move to each element in the mobile application, and click them to display the locators.

The classes and attributes for the mobile applications may be different from the browser pages, but the page object classes should be built exactly the same using the Selenium Page Object Model. Elements should be defined...