Mobile apps are often designed around complex touch actions or gestures. Appium supports building any kind of touch action you can imagine.
[Instructor] One of the big differences between mobile apps … and traditional desktop apps is the input style. … Desktop apps typically use a mouse and a keyboard. … Whereas mobile apps are driven almost entirely … by one or two fingers. … What this means is that automating mobile app test scenarios … might involve simulating the input of a human finger … or two or three. … Luckily the Appium API supports a totally general way … of describing touch actions. … Here's my test app again. … This time, on a view which has a scrollable list. … A scrollable list is a great example … of a mobile app component … that a user would interact with, using their finger. … Lets say I wanted to automate this list of cloud types, … but the particular cloud type I want to tap … is not present on the screen. … What would I do as a human user? … Well, I'd first place one of my fingers … near the lower half of the screen. … Then I'd drag up, … then I'd release my finger. … All together the app interprets this as a scroll …
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Released
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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