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Appium Overview

Appium is an free, open source test automation tool for mobile applications. It is a cross-platform mobile UI automation framework. It allows you to write UI tests for your mobile apps, for Android iOS, and some other OS’s. It allows you to test all the three types of mobile applications: native, hybrid and mobile web.

Three types of Mobile Software Applications

i) Native Applications
(Native Apps live on the device and are accessed through icons on the device home screen, they are installed through an application store(such as Google Play, Apple's App Store)

ii) Mobile Web Applications
(Web Apps are not real apps, they are web sites stored on a remote server and delivered over the Internet through a web browser)

iii) Hybrid Applications
(Hybrid apps are like native apps, run on the device, they have integration with device's file system and integration with web services.)2) Appium supports Android and iOs devices, it drives iOS and Android apps using WebDriver protocol.

1) Android
(Android is an Open source Operating System for mobile devices such as smart phones, tablet computers. It owned by Google, offering users access to Google's own services like Search, YouTube, Maps, Gmail etc...

2) iOS
(iPhone Operating System is a mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc, and distributed exclusively for Apple hardware, it presently powers many of the company's mobile devices including the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch)

3) Appium enables Android and iOS automation using Selenium Webdriver. The same WebDriver binding can be used across web and mobile.

4) It is Cross-platform, single API works for both Android and iOS platform.

5) Appium supports all languages that have Selenium client libraries like,
Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, C# etc...

to create Test Scripts
6) Appium supports Software Test Automation on Emulators or Simulators and Physical devices too. Emulator or Simulator (Testing on real devices is expensive; Emulators or Simulators are virtual environments, not only expand our Testing coverage to more devices, but also quick and easy way to test.)

7) Prerequisite to use Appiumi) Android SDK
ii) JDK (Java Development Kit)
iii) TestNG
iv) Eclipse
v) Selenium Server JAR
vi) WebDriver Language binding library
vii) Appium for Windows.

Importantly, Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites.

It also allows you to run the automated tests on actual devices, emulators and simulators.

Today when every mobile app is made in at least two platform iOS and Android, you for sure need a tool, which allows testing cross platform. Having two different frameworks for the same app increases the cost of the product and time to maintain it as well.

The basic philosophy of Appium is that you should be able to reuse code between iOS and Android, and that’s why when you see the API they are same across iOS and android. Another important thing to highlight here is that unlike Calabash, Appium doesn’t modify your app or need you to even recompile the app.

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Introduction to Appium

• Appium features comparing to other tools
• Appium internal architecture
• Android SDK installation
• Setting up system variables
• Installing Appium server
• Configuring selenium jars
• What is xcode and xcode installation
• Validating iOS simulator and downloading java
• Installing eclipse ide for java
• Desired capabilities concepts
• Invoking Android virtue device
• First program explaining Mobile Capabilities
• Android Driver Invocation
• UI Automaton Too to identify objects
• Automating app UI using of ID, Xpath, Class names
• Appium API’s for UI interaction
• Mobile Gestures Automation-1
• Mobile Gestures Automation-2
• Mobile Gestures Automation-3
• UI Selector CSS in Handing Advanced API’s
• Android Key Events Handing
• Procedure for Downloading App in Emulator (Virtua Devices)
• Automation on Rea devices

Live Examples on Device Apps:

• Music App-Test cases to Automate
• Practice Exercise-1.1(Covers Mobile Gestures)
• Practice Exercise-1.2(Covers core Appium API)
• languages App- Test cases to automate
• Practice Exercise-2.1 (Appium + WebDriver Logic)
• Practice Exercise-2.2 (Android key events)
• Ecommerce App- Installing app into device
• Practice Exercise-3.1 Handing Image Banners
• Practice Exercise-3.2 Handling Scrollable Menu, Popups
• Practice Exercise-3.3 Handing Checkboxes, Radio Buttons, Dynamic Texts

Web Apps Automation:

• Chrome Browser configuration setup in Mobile
• Automating the chrome mobile browser
• User Agent-Identifying objects in Mobile browser
• Automating Mobile specific websites
• Exercise on rea device- Movie browser automation
• Trouble shooting the rea device to make recognize
• Exercise-1.1- Chrome Remote Debugging Technique
• Exercise-1.2- Getting Xpaths from mobile browser
• Executing in rea device-video

iOS Automation with Appium on MAC:

• iOS Testing Introduction
• iOS app download
• Desired Capabilities for invoking iOS Apps
• iOS Driver invocation
• Running iOS first Automation test case
• Desired capabilities code
• How to identify objects in iOS App-Appium Inspector
• Magic of Appium Inspector on iOS Apps
• Handing iOS Controls with Appium
• Practice Exercise on Switches-1
• Practice Exercise on Scrolling circes-2
• Handing iOS Alerts Buttons with Appium
• Practice Exercise on Alerts -3
• iOS Apps Exercises code download
• Safari Mobile Browser Automation configuration
• User agent to get safari browser objects
• Practice exercise on safari mobile browser
• Safari program code download

Mobile Cloud Testing with Appium:

• Sauce abs cloud testing introduction
• Registering Sauce and Account for running iOS Apps on cloud
• Automating Safari browser in IPhone with Sauce Cloud
• Exercise-1.1 Getting safari browser objects with User agents
• Desired capabilities for safari on iOS
• Safari browser code
• Desired capabilities and cloud connectivity to run iOS Apps in IPhone
• iOS App code
• Following up Appium test updates
• Good to Go

Appium Framework – Part 1 Learn TestNG Basics

• Framework pan- why Testng and its advantages for Appium
• TestNG Installation and setup in eclipse
• TestNG Basic annotations roe in designing framework
• TestNG annotations in depth
• Importance of TestNG prerequisite annotations
• Annotations code dump download
• Importance of TestNG xml fie in framework
• Including and excluding the test cases from Execution with TesNG xml fie

Appium Framework – Part 2 Maven (Build Management tool)

• Introduction to Maven
• Configuration of Maven
• Creating basic Maven Project
• Importance of Maven POM.xml fie
• Creating Appium-Maven project
• Importing Appium maven dependencies
• Running Appium scripts in maven

Appium Framework – Part 3 Integrating TestNG with MAVEN

• Creating Testng Xml fie for Appium maven project
• Creating Multiple test suites and configuring them in xml files
• Running Appium server programmatically
• Creating Bat fie and commands to trigger Appium server
• Creating multiple TestNG profiles and triggering from Maven
• Running end to end framework on single click with Maven

Appium Framework – Part 4 Scheduling in Jenkins CI too

• Why Jenkins? Jenkins Advantages
• Installing & configuring Jenkins for Appium project
• Deploying Framework in Jenkins and Triggering the build
• Scheduling the framework to run with Jenkins
• Jenkins Commands