Appium Introduction

The introductory course that shows you how to use Appium to start testing mobile devices, emulators and Windows 10 Apps.

This comprehensive course covers all the essential principles to get you gain confidence in using Appium in your role – the essential tool for automating mobiles and Windows applications.

The course follows on from our Selenium WebDriver courses, extending WebDriver testing to Android, iOS and Windows.

Throughout the course practical examples are demonstrated, and the delegates get to practice what they have learned against physical devices & emulators.

The course uses the following technologies: Eclipse, Android Studio, Appium Java, Windows Application Manager and JUnit.

Please Note: The practical exercises on this course are against Android devices & emulators and Windows apps (iOS is not provided in practicals).

Who Should Attend?

  • Delegates who are looking to extend their Selenium knowledge to mobile testing

A basic understanding of writing Selenium WebDriver Scripts (we use Java bindings) is required. Some programming experience would be advantageous - the course is based on using Appium with Java & JUnit.

Exam Details

There is no exam as part of this course.

Objectives

  • Learn what to install and how to set up Appium ready for testing
  • Understand the differences between Android, iOS and Windows testing
  • Gain a full understanding of the Appium architecture and automation stacks
  • Understand Element locator strategies and tools to aid in identification of elements

Select a date

Please note: this course runs on demand so the price is TBC. It can be arranged to run on-site at your offices as Training for Teams or as a public course if there is sufficient interest.

Please contact us for more details.

Course Content and Agenda

Over two days, the following areas will be covered:

  • A background to Appium and its benefits
  • Overview of the Appium architecture
  • An overview of the technology stacks
  • Terminology
  • How to install the technology stack required
  • How to set up the tools ready to start testing
  • Configuring your Eclipse project ready to use Appium
  • How to prepare the device for testing
  • Using ADB
  • How to specify the desired capabilities
  • Example test code
  • Tools for identification
  • UI Automator Viewer
  • Appium Desktop Inspector
  • Locator strategies
  • Best practices
  • Coding tap
  • Touch
  • Multi-Touch
  • Gestures
  • Interacting with the mobile buttons
  • Other useful methods
  • Supported browsers
  • Setting up desired capabilities
  • Example test code
  • Locator strategies
  • Changing context
  • Element identification
  • Sample code
  • Creating AVDs with Android Studio
  • Setting desired capabilities to connect to the emulator
  • Example test code
  • Element identification
  • Installing apps onto the emulator
  • Installing & uninstalling apps programmatically
  • Appium & the Page Object Model
  • Connecting to devices wirelessly
  • Architecture
  • Overview of setting up simulated device
  • Desired capabilities
  • Example code
  • Element identification
  • iOS Page Object Model
  • Architecture
  • Configuring the PC
  • Desired Capabilities for UWP & standard Windows apps
  • Element identification using UISpy
  • Inspect
  • Mapping attributes from spy tools to Appium API 
  • Cross Platform POM
  • Appium desktop step recorder
  • Cloud services
  • Useful links
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