Setting up Appium for testing mobile applications
Before we start testing mobile apps with Appium, we need to download and install Appium. We will use the GUI version of Appium. If you wish to run tests for iOS on iPhone or iPad, you need to install and set up Appium on a Mac OS X machine. To test Android applications, you can set up the test environment on a Windows or Linux machine. Setting up Appium is fairly easy with the new Appium App for Mac OS X.
Note
In addition to the GUI version, you can also install the Appium server, which runs with Node.js.
How to do it...
You can download the latest Appium binaries from http://appium.io/. Click on the Download Appium button on the front page. It will download the version based on your choice of operating system:
In the following examples, we will be using Appium on Mac OS X:
- You can install Appium on a Mac by launching the installer and copying Appium to the applications folder.
When you launch Appium from the applications for the first time, it...
