Appium-desktop Installation and use

what is Appium-desktop?

Project Description:

Appium Server and Inspector in Desktop GUIs for Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Appium There's a very re-component in the mobile test. Appium-server , it is mainly used to monitor our mobile devices (real or simulator), and then write different programming languages Appium The test script parses and then drives the mobile device to run the test.

Appium-server:https://bitbucket.org/appium/appium.app/downloads/

But Appium-server has not been updated for a year or two. Window version at the end of 2015 Appiumforwindows_1_4_16_1.zip

So, the new tool appium-desktop come! It comes to continuing the mission of Appium-server, of course, Appium-server is still available at the moment.

Download and install:

Appium-desktop Project Address:https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop

:https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases

Select the relevant package for download according to your platform. This article takes windows as an example, so select the Appium-desktop-setup-1.2.4.exe file to download.

The installation process is too simple, double-click the exe file, and then wait for the installation finished, there is no need for you to set any options. So, this is not a map.

Run and use:

the desktop will generate a purple appium icon and double-click to open the installation.

The default is to display the monitored host and port, which is consistent with the appium-server. Click the "start Server V 1.7.1" button to start the service.

start now Start your mobile device (real machine or simulator), write Appium Automated test scripts that can be run by appium-desktop .

The following is a test script written by the Python + appium-python-client library.

#Coding=utf-8 fromAppiumImportWebdriverdesired_caps={}desired_caps['PlatformName'] ='Android'desired_caps['platformversion'] ='6.0'desired_caps['devicename'] ='Android Emulator'desired_caps['Apppackage'] ='Com.android.calculator2'desired_caps['appactivity'] ='. Calculator'Driver= Webdriver. Remote ('Http://localhost:4723/wd/hub', Desired_caps) driver.find_element_by_name ("1"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("5"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("9"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("Delete"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("9"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("5"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("+"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("6"). Click () driver.find_element_by_name ("="). Click () driver.quit ()

The run effect is the right half.

If you don't understand this article, please refer to my "appium beginners "

http://www.testclass.net/appium/

Appium-desktop Installation and use