Mobile Test Automation Made Awesome With Appium

Editor's Notes

• #3: Mobile technology has impacted our day to day lives to a very great extent. Mobile is no more just a communication media, but it’s a multipurpose person gadget Organizations rely more on mobile Apps to drive their business. Most of the web traffic is now through mobile devices. Mobile technology has impacted almost every industry The success of a mobile app, is not just on the cool features and capabilities it provides, but also on how accurately, quickly and consistently it performs
• #4: Native apps : Built using the platform specific SDK’s Mobile apps : Server side apps accessed through browsers Hybrid apps : Combination of Native and Web apps
• #8: Device diversity : Varying screens sizes, resolution & rendering differences Varieties of mobile devices - Apple, Samsung, Nokia etc Hardware configurations – Processing speed, memory size Platform & Network : Mobile operating system : IOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry Versions of the Operating systems Network connections : 2G, 3G, 4G, Wifi
• #9: Some basic factors to consider while approaching mobile testing
• #11: Test the same app you submit to market : Appium uses uses vendor-provided automation frameworks to interact with the app, hence there is no need to compile in any Appium-specific or third-party code or frameworks to your app Write your tests in any language Appium is based on the webdriver’s JSON Wire Protocol and extends the WebDriver API. Because of this client-server architecture, a client written in any language can be used to send the appropriate HTTP requests to the server. Use a standard automation specification WebDriver has set the standard for automating web applications and Appium has extended the same protocol with extra API methods useful for mobile automation. A thriving open source project Appium is open source and it has active community of people
• #14: Appium is a client-server based architecture. Appium server component is written in node JS and it exposes a set of REST API methods. Appium client component could be written in any language and can be used to send the appropriate HTTP requests to the server. Appium server uses vendor-provided automation frameworks (UIAutomation in case of IOS and UIAutomator in case of Android) to interact with the IOS/Android application either on real device or on emulator/simulators
• #15: Appium inspector is a wrapper around Appium server which could be used to show the elements and their attributes on the app. It also enables to record and play back user actions
• #16: The R1. R2, R3, R4 corresponds to the four philosophy’s of Appium and here is a comparison chart of various tools w.r.t these philosophies.
• #17: GitHub reference of sample code : https://github.com/saikrishna321/VodQa_MobileAutomationWorkShop