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You're reading from Mobile Test Automation with Appium Mobile application testing made easy

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787280168

Length 256 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Appium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

Nishant Verma

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction to Appium FREE CHAPTER

2. Setting Up the Machine

3. Writing Your First Appium Test

4. Understanding Desired Capabilities

5. Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators

6. How to Synchronize Tests

7. How to Automate Gestures

8. Design Patterns in Test Automation

9. How to Run Appium Test on Devices and Emulators

10. Continuous Integration with Jenkins

11. Appium Tips and Tricks

12. Appium Desktop App

Appendix

Installing the new Appium app

Appium has recently released a new open source GUI app for Mac/Windows/Ubuntu users. It's an app with a new UI and doesn't require node or NPM to be installed. It's built using electron (for more information visit: https://electron.atom.io/) and comes bundled with node runtime. It can be downloaded and installed from the specified location (for more information visit: https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases/tag/v1.0.0). Based on your machine OS, you can choose to download the respective installer file and install the Appium app. The latest released version is 1.6.4.

Here's how the new Appium app looks when you launch it after install:

At the first glance, it allows you to do the following:

Start a simple server (version 1.6.4) with the default configuration
Explore some additional settings under the Advanced tab, and...

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Authors (1)

Verma

Anshul Verma has been working on the Salesforce platform since 2006. Prior to that, he has done extensive development using MS technologies on web, desktop, and mobile applications. He possesses a tremendous understanding of enterprise-scale systems and has worked in designing intricate systems with high scalability, performance, and robustness. He has been a Dreamforce speaker and is a regular contributor to Stack Exchange and other developer communities. He has four Salesforce certifications and is currently working as a project manager and technical architect where he is responsible for managing customer success and delivering high-quality solutions to his clients. He has conducted various training sessions in his current organization and trained over 50 new hires. He is very popular with his training batches and can be often found sharing his knowledge with his team and peers. He owns and maintains his blog (http://mightycoder.blogspot.com/), and you can follow him on Twitter at @toanshulverma.

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