Appium 1.13.0 is a minor release. General Appium 1.13 will be the last minor version to use UiAutomator1 as the default Android automation. As of Appium 1.14, the default Android driver will be UiAutomator2. If you don't set the automationName for an Android session a big...
Up until now we have looked into basic Appium automation, such as finding and clicking on a button or typing text into a text field. However, “real world” mobile applications are more sophisticated and contain many complex UI elements that require user interactions such as...
We’ve covered a lot up until this point. If you’ve stuck with us, you should hopefully feel far more knowledgeable about Appium. Don’t worry if you feel it hasn’t all quite “come together” yet. Start small and write some simple test cases. You don’t need...
It’s hard to believe how far we’ve come … from our first chapter on installing Appium to becoming a full-fledged automation tester! Congratulations on sticking with it. You know the important terminologies of Appium and ready to work with any appium project. Of course, your...
The mass advancement in machine learning and artificial intelligence is affecting every sector of every industry, and test automation is no exception AI is being used in multiple areas of software testing, including: Visually automated testing: Drive testing through the UI by using Image Comparison Automated API Testing:...
You’ve made it this far! By now you’re a full-fledged Appium ninja. It’s time to round out some of your new skills with additional tips and tricks. Appium is a sophisticated and ever updating testing platform, and with a growing user base forming, you’re bound to...
Design patterns are used extensively when programming and they generally offer a reusable solution to a known occurring problem. In many respects, the introduce a set of best practices into your code and usually result in more flexible and maintainable code. Strictly speaking, design patterns are...
Up until now, you’ve learned the basics of using Appium and testing against emulators and simulators. However, for production apps it is imperative to test on real devices to ensure the behavior is as expected for your end-users. The mobile ecosystem is particularly fragmented given...
Up until now we’ve learned all the Appium basics, including how to extract elements and executing the tests on devices and emulators. Although automation is great, in today’s fast moving world there is a constant demand to execute tests faster and on more devices. So the...
In the last chapter we explored the Page Object Model in some detail. If you recall, we touched on the wait method and its significance and we promised to get back to it. So in this chapter we will understand how wait (or Synchronization) performs...