Locator strategies and finding elements: Theory

- [Instructor] Once you have an Appium session running, … you can use it to automate your mobile app … for the purpose of testing. … Of course, you'll want to have an idea … of what you want to test first. … For example, let's say you want to test … the login functionality of your app works. … How would you do this manually? … Well, you'd navigate to the point in your app … where there are text input fields … for usernmae and password entry … and enter appropriate text in those fields. … Then you'd look for a login button of some kind and tap it. … Finally, you'd look at the resulting screen … and make sure the login was successful, … that there were no error messages, et cetera. … When writing Appium tests, we follow … exactly the same process. … We just turn each of these manual steps into code. … The manual step often goes unnoticed … by us as humans, but is extremely important. … We have to actually locate the UI element … we want to interact with. … In this case, we have to find the username field …