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Test Automation Engineering Handbook

You're reading from   Test Automation Engineering Handbook Learn and implement techniques for building robust test automation frameworks

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804615492
Length 276 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Manikandan Sambamurthy Manikandan Sambamurthy
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Table of Contents (18) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1: The Basics
2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Test Automation FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Test Automation Strategy 4. Chapter 3: Common Tools and Frameworks 5. Part 2: Practical Affairs
6. Chapter 4: Getting Started with the Basics 7. Chapter 5: Test Automation for Web 8. Chapter 6: Test Automation for Mobile 9. Chapter 7: Test Automation for APIs 10. Chapter 8: Test Automation for Performance 11. Part 3: Continuous Learning
12. Chapter 9: CI/CD and Test Automation 13. Chapter 10: Common Issues and Pitfalls 14. Assessments 15. Index 16. Other Books You May Enjoy Appendix A:Mocking API Calls

Getting to know Appium

Appium is one of the most popular test automation frameworks on the market. It has several salient features that help automate iOS and Android applications. Let us start with knowing its fundamentals.

What is Appium?

Appium is an open source tool for automating native, hybrid, and mobile web applications. Appium primarily operates on iOS/Android mobile applications and can support Windows desktop applications as well. Appium uses vendor-provided frameworks under the hood—namely, XCUITest and UIAutomator for iOS and Android platforms, respectively.

Appium wraps these vendor-provided frameworks into the WebDriver API. As we have seen in Chapter 2, Appium uses a client-server architecture and extends the existing WebDriver protocol by adding additional API methods to support mobile automation. For engineers who have previously worked with WebDriver for web automation, this should be quite familiar and should not be brand new. It supports multiple...

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