Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS mobile, Android mobile, and Windows desktop platforms. Native apps are those written using iOS, Android, or Windows SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a "webview" -- a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like Apache Cordova or Phonegap make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app. Importantly, Appium is "cross-platform": it allows you to write tests against multiple platforms (iOS, Android, Windows), using the same API. This enables code reuse between iOS, Android, and Windows testsuites.

1. Abhishek Baranwal
Software Consultant
Knoldus Inc.
Automation with
Appium

2. Our Agenda
01 Mobile Testing
02 Automation Testing
03 Introduction To Appium
04 Appium Architecture
05
Demo
06 Capabilities
08
Why Appium
09 Bonus

3. Mobile Testing
● Mobile application testing is a process by which application software developed for
handheld mobile devices is tested for its functionality, usability and consistency.
● Mobile application testing can be an automated or manual type of testing.
Types Of Mobile Testing
● Hardware Testing
● Software or Application Testing

6. Automation Testing
Automation testing can be achieved by writing test scripts or using any automation testing tool.
Test automation is used to automate repetitive tasks and other testing tasks which are difficult to
perform manually.
Benefits:
● ROI
● RUNNING TESTS 24/7:
● REUSABILITY
● BUGS
● RELIABILITY , etc.

7. What is Appium?
Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web
apps.
It drives iOS, Android, and Windows apps using the WebDriver protocol.
Appium Clients
● client libraries (in Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and C#) which support Appium's
extensions
Appium Desktop
● GUI wrapper around the Appium server that can be downloaded for any platform.

8. Appium Architecture

9. Why Appium??

10. Desired Capabilities
Desired capabilities are a set of keys and values (i.e., a map or hash) sent to the Appium server to tell the
server what kind of automation session we're interested in starting up.
E.g.
{
"platformName": "iOS",
"platformVersion": "11.0",
"deviceName": "iPhone 7",
"automationName": "XCUITest",
"app": "/path/to/my.app"
}

11. Demo: Supportive Stacks Used
● JAVA 8
● ANDROID SDK
● ADB
● MAVEN
● ALLURE
● TESTNG

12. BONUS: AWS Device Farm
AWS Device Farm is an app testing
service that lets you test and interact with
your Android, iOS, and web apps on many
devices at once, or reproduce issues on a
device in real time.
● View video
● Screenshots
● Logs
● Performance data

13. How it Works

14. References
● http://appium.io/docs/en/about-appium/intro/
● https://aws.amazon.com/device-farm/
● https://medium.com/@kokodede/running-automation-tests-on-aws-
device-farm-using-appium-and-testng-ae0445689c26

15. Thank You!