Research on Appnium Mobile automation framework

Cryanimal qq:164166060 This article briefly introduces the architecture of the Appnium Automation framework, the loading process, supported languages, related configurations, and element positioning tools. Official website:

Http://appium.io

Appnium is supported by Saucelabs, an industry-leading Test product company with proven enterprise testing solutions

Platforms supported by Appium

• Android uses instrumentation and uiautomator two sets of technologies
• iOS using UIAutomation
• Firefox is also supported and can be extended to other platforms

Advantages of Appium

• Cross-architecture, native hybrid WebView
• Cross device, Android Iosfirefoxos
• Cross-language, Java python ruby nodejsphp
• Cross app to interact with multiple apps
• Do not rely on source code
• Unlimited test frameworks and platforms

Appium Architecture on Android

Appium Architecture on iOS

Installation of Appium

See: http://blog.csdn.net/kaka1121/article/details/51698700

The start of the Appium, the above also has the explanation

By command: Appium–help can see some optional parameters

Open port 4723 to accept Webdriver requests by default
Default on 4724 for Android communication

Video Demo: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNjM0ODIxNTUy.html

Appium Automation required tools and Android development environment installation

Dependent tools include Uiautomatorviewer, Abd, DDMS, etc.

See: http://blog.csdn.net/kaka1121/article/details/51698745

Loading process for Appium

Appium support for mainstream languages

Appium Webdriver's capabilities configuration

Capabilities is a set of key-value pairs that the client sends to the Appium server to tell the server what kind of session we want to start. There are also key-value pairs that are used to modify the behavior of the server side during automation.

Required Items :

devicename: I can run the test on my machine regardless of what value I fill, but this is mandatory. The Appium version I used was V1.2.2.

app : If you fill out, Appium will install the test target app on the target machine, and if not, will find the target app based on Appactivity and Apppackage to the target machine.

apppackage : Can be obtained by using the SDK's own tool AAPT

appactivity: Also available through the tools above.

One thing to note is that the value can be packagename or not attached.

In other words, the following two types of filling methods are all right. Noteslist "and" Com.example.android.notepad.NotesList "

General configuration:

Android only:

IOS only

Configuration text See: http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_700be1c00102vgha.html

Java Demo sample

For more information, see my other blog post

Element positioning

• Native controls for Android and iOS and WebView controls are mapped to specific names, such as mapping buttons for all platforms to button elements
• Map the current tree to an HTML document
• Selecting Elements through XPath

Three ways to locate

• Name:id,label text
• Tag_name:component type
• Xpath

View the attributes of an element and the XPath, using Uiautomatorview

Element interaction

Webdriver has supported

• Click
• Input
• Key events

Mobile Related:

• Drag
• Scrub
• Long Press

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Research on Appnium Mobile automation framework