Before you can automate a particular UI component during an Appium session, you have to find the component to register it with Appium. There are different strategies for doing so.
- [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 …
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6/24/2019- Appium server, clients, and drivers
- Appium setup
- Starting and stopping sessions
- Finding and using elements
- Intermediate Appium scripting
- Touch actions
- Mobile web testing
Skill Level Intermediate
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Introduction
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What can you do with Appium?1m 10s
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What you should already know1m 17s
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1. Appium
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The Appium drivers4m 41s
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2. Appium Setup
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System setup for iOS5m 1s
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System setup for Android7m 53s
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Installing Appium3m 49s
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3. Appium Sessions
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Session capabilities6m 22s
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4. Finding and Using Elements
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Waiting for elements: Theory3m 24s
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Basic element interaction10m 15s
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Solution: Find a new element7m 30s
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5. Intermediate Appium Scripting
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XPath: Its uses and caveats5m 52s
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Touch actions: Theory4m 41s
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Touch actions: Practice6m 57s
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