Introduction to Appium

Introduction to Appium

A background to Appium and its benefits. Overview of the Appium architecture. An overview of the technology stacks, terminology.

Installation

How to install the technology stack required, how to set up the tools ready to start testing. Configuring your Eclipse project ready to use Appium .

Testing Native Apps on Physical Android Devices

How to prepare the device for testing. Using ADB, how to specify the Desired Capabilities, Example Test Code.

Android Element Identification

Tools for identification, UI Automator Viewer, Appium Desktop Inspector, Locator strategies, best practices.

Android Interaction

Coding Tap, Touch, Multi-Touch, Gestures, interacting with the Mobile buttons, other useful methods

Mobile Web Testing on Android

Supported Browsers, Setting up Desired Capabilities, Example Test Code, Locator Strategies

Hybrid App Testing on Android

Changing Context, Element Identification, Sample Code

Android Emulator Testing

Creating AVDs with Android Studio, setting desired Capabilities to connect to the Emulator, Example Test Code, Element Identification, Installing apps onto the Emulator

Android Extra Topics

Installing & Uninstalling Apps programmatically, Appium & the Page Object Model, Connecting to devices wirelessly

Testing iOS Apps – Simulators

Architecture, Overview of setting up simulated devices, desired capabilities, Example Code.

Testing iOS Apps – Physical Devices

Architecture, Overview of setting up physical devices, desired capabilities, Example Code

iOS Extras

Element Identification, iOS Page Object Model

Testing Windows 10 Applications

Architecture, configuring the PC, desired Capabilities for UWP & standard Windows Apps, Element identification using UISpy, & Inspect