- Mar 18, 2018
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Introduction to Appium
Appium is an open-source tool for mobile automation. It allows automation of native,mobile web and hybrid mobile applications. Using Appium, we can automate iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps on both emulator/simulator and on physical mobile devices.
Native apps are those written using the iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in ‘Browser’ app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” — a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like Phonegap, make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.
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 test suites.
Here are some of the challenges automating the mobile applications..
- Never ending screen size and form factors
- Apps hosted in a sand boxed environment and very limited inter process communication
- Network Challenges
- Usability aspect of mobile and the complexity in terms of navigation
- Lack of easy to use API
Before going further, let’s throw some light on why we have chosen Appium as the automation tool for mobile app testing:
- Appium supports for both platforms iOS and android.
- You can write and run your tests using any language or test framework. (JAVA,Python,Ruby,JavaScript, php ,C#)
- It allows you to write tests against multiple mobile platforms using the same API.
- It is an open-source tool that you can easily contribute to.
- Doesn’t require access to your source code or library. You are testing with which you will actually ship.
- Able to run on selenium grid.
- Selenium Webdriver compatible.
Appium Supports Multi-Languages:
- JAVA
- Python
- Ruby
- JavaScript
- php
- C#
Types of Application which Appium automates includes the following
- Native
- Hybrid
- Mobile web apps
1 Comment
Varun Kumar
Great work author!!!! keep up the good work and happy learning!!!!!