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Automation for Mobile Apps - Appium solution
Author:
Nael Abd Aljawad – QA Automation Technical Leader

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Mobile Automation Tools Comparison

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 Appium drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol.
 Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with
native, hybrid and mobile web apps.
Appium Solution

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What is it?
 Native App – A native app is an app which is built for a specific
platform using specific technologies like Xcode for iOS and Java for
Android.
 Hybrid App – A hybrid app is an app which uses native as well as
web technologies to bring best of both worlds.
 Html5 App – Html5 app is not installed on a phone. It runs on a
browser and built using web technologies such that it is fully
optimized for screen it runs on.

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Features Comparison
Feature Native Hybrid HTML5
Performance Fast Controlled Slow
Multi-touch/pinch Yes Yes No
Device Access All Almost all Very few
Secure storage Yes Yes Shared/No
Connectivity Online/Offline Online/Offline Mostly Online
Rollout Slow/painful Slow/painful Fast
Security High Low Low
Best for Games/low content Medium dynamic content High dynamic content
Tools Xcode, Eclipse Phonegap, Worklight Any web based
Distribution Downloaded to device
from AppStore
Hosted on a Web server and
accessed on a Web Browser
Downloaded to device from
AppStore
Integration Supports integration with
device features such as
camera and address book
Doesn’t support integration
with device components
Supports integration with
device features such as
camera and address book
Notifications Yes No Yes

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Market overview
 Facebook moved away from HTML5 apps
 Twitter uses hybrid app approach
 A lot of ecommerce sites have HTML5 based mobile websites
 LinkedIn also recently moved to native app

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HTML5 vs. Hybrid vs. Native

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Appium Philosophy
 Appium was designed to meet mobile automation needs according
to a philosophy outlined by the following four tenets:
1. You shouldn't have to recompile your app or modify it in any way in
order to automate it. you're testing the same app you're shipping
2. You shouldn't be locked into a specific language or framework to write
and run your tests
3. A mobile automation framework shouldn't reinvent the wheel when it
comes to automation APIs. extended the JSON protocol with extra
API methods useful for mobile automation
4. A mobile automation framework should be open source, in spirit and
practice as well as in name

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Client/Server Architecture
 Receives connections from a client
 Listens for commands
 Executes the commands on a mobile device
 Responds with an HTTP response representing the result of the
command execution

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Selenium
WebDriver
Script
(C#,Java,Perl,
Python,PHP)
Server written
in node.js
IDE
JSON WIRE
Protocol
via http

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Appium Architecture

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Session
Session Object
 Clients initiate a session with a server in ways specific to each
library
 All libraries end up sending a POST /session request to the server,
with a JSON object called the 'desired capabilities' object
 the server will start up the automation session and respond with a
session ID which is used for sending further commands

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JSON
 Desired capabilities tell the Appium server what kind of automation
session we're interested in starting up
 There are various capabilities which can modify the behavior of the
server during automation (e.g. tell Appium that we want an iOS session, rather than an Android one)
Desired Capabilities

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Appium
Server
Appium Server
 Appium is a server written in Node.js.
 It can be built and installed from source or installed directly from
NPM

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Appium Clients
 There are client libraries which support Appium's extensions to the
WebDriver protocol. When using Appium, you want to use these
client libraries instead of your regular WebDriver client.

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Language Clients
Github Repo and Installation InstructionsLanguage/Framework
https://github.com/appium/ruby_libRuby
https://github.com/appium/python-clientPython
https://github.com/appium/java-clientJava
https://github.com/admc/wdJavaScript (Node.js)
https://github.com/appium/selenium-objective-cObjective C
https://github.com/appium/php-clientPHP
https://github.com/appium/appium-dotnet-driverC# (.NET)
http://github.com/appium/perl-clientPerl
https://github.com/jollychang/robotframework-
appiumlibrary
RobotFramework

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Mobile Star Wars

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Appium GUI

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Inspectors
 Android UIautomatorviewer / IOS UIautomation - A GUI tool to scan
and analyze the UI components of an Android/IOS application.
 Web & Hybrid apps: Chrome://inspect/#devices

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IOS
 Versions: 6.0, 6.1, 7.0, 7.1, 8.0, and 8.1
 Devices: iPhone Simulator, iPad Simulator, and real iPhones and
iPads
 Native app support: Yes
 Mobile web support: Yes, via automation of mobile Safari.
 Hybrid support: Yes.
 Support for automating multiple apps in one session: No
 Support for automating multiple devices simultaneously: No

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Android
 Versions: 2.3 and up
 Devices: Android emulators and real Android devices
 Native app support: Yes
 Mobile web support: Yes
 Hybrid support: Yes
 Support for automating multiple apps in one session: Yes
 Support for automating multiple devices simultaneously: Yes

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TouchActions

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MultiTouchActions

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Hybrid Apps Views Switching

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Requirements - Java
 JAVA IDE (Eclipse)
 Java JDK
 Maven Plugin for Eclipse
 Selenium WebDriver Dependencies/Appium Java-Client
Dependency (Maven)
 Android SDK
 TestNG/Junit
 Emulator/ Real Device
 Appium Server
 Node.js (If running appium from source)
 Mac OS X 10.7 or higher
 XCode >= 4.6.3
 Apple Developer Tools (iPhone simulator SDK, command line tools)
 Homebrew

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Java JDK
 Download java JDK :
www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk7-downloads-1880260.html
to add new variable and edit the path.
right click on computer - > properties -> Advanced system settings
-> Environment variables
Add new variable :
New : variable name : JAVA_HOME
variable value : C:Program FilesJavajdk1.7.0_79
Edit Path : ;C:Program FilesJavajdk1.7.0_79bin
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Download Eclipse ( with TestNG & Maven)
 www.eclipse.org
 Add TestNG plugin :
Help -> install new software -> Add ->
Name : TestNG
Location : http://beust.com/eclipse
 Add Maven :
Help -> install new software -> Add ->
Name : Maven
Location : http://download.eclipse.org/technology/m2e/releases
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ADT Plugin
 ADT Plugin ( Android Developer Tools) :
Help -> install new software -> Add ->
Name : ADT Plugin
Location : https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/
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Android SDK
Android SDK ( Software Developer Kit) :
developer.android.com/sdk/index.html
To add the location of the android sdk folder to eclipse :
Window -> Preferences -> Android
SDK Location : the path of the android-sdks
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ANDROID_HOME
To add new variable and edit the path.
right click on computer - > properties -> Advanced system settings
-> Environment variables
Add new variable :
New : variable name : ANDROID_HOME
variable value : pathandroid -sdks
Edit Path : ; pathandroid –sdksplatform-tools
Edit Path : ; pathandroid –sdkstools
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Appium
 Install Appium server :
http://appium.io/downloads.html
 Download Appium and Selenium jars from Maven repositories
Selenium : http://www.seleniumhq.org/download/
Java-client : https://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7Cjava-
client
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Test Script Development
 Create a maven project in Eclipse
 Add dependency
<dependency>
<groupId> io.appium </groupId>
<artifactId> java-client </artifactId>
<version> 1.1.0 </version>
</dependency>

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Test Script Development
public void setUp() throws Exception
{
File classpathRoot = new File(System.getProperty("user.dir"));
File appDir = new File(classpathRoot, "../../../apps/");
File app = new File(appDir, "App_Name.apk");
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setCapability("deviceName","Android");
capabilities.setCapability("browserName", "");
capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "4.4");
capabilities.setCapability("app", app.getAbsolutePath());
capabilities.setCapability("appPackage", “package_name ");
capabilities.setCapability("appActivity", ".activity_name");
}
AndroidDriver driver=new AndroidDriver(new
URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);
AppiumDriver driver = new AppiumDriver(new
URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), capabilities);

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SauceLabs
 Automated testing in the cloud for CI.
 Provides the world’s largest cross-browser grid for executing
Selenium & Appium WebDriver tests

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SauceLabs – Username & Access Key

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SauceLabs - Setup
public class AppiumDriverTest {
private AppiumDriver driver;
@Parameters({"username", "key", "os", "browser", "browserVersion"})
@BeforeMethod
public void setUp(@Optional("nael_sl") String username,
@Optional("e8ea754d-c8a0-488f-993c-15f583ab2179") String key,
@Optional("mac") String os,
@Optional("iphone") String browser,
@Optional("5.0") String browserVersion,
Method method) throws Exception {
// Choose the browser, version, and platform to test
DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();
capabilities.setBrowserName(browser);
capabilities.setCapability("version", browserVersion);
capabilities.setCapability("platform", Platform.valueOf(os));
capabilities.setCapability("name", method.getName());
// Create the connection to Sauce Labs to run the tests
this.driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://" + username + ":" + key +
"@ondemand.saucelabs.com:80/wd/hub"),capabilities);
}
@Test
public void webDriver() throws Exception {
// Make the browser get the page and check its title
driver.get("http://www.amazon.com/");
assertEquals("Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more",
driver.getTitle());
}
}

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AUTOMATED TEST CONFIGURATOR

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Android is the Winner

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Drivers Relationship

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Web driver FW Design

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Appium Design

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Current FW

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Report

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Thank You 
Nael Abd Aljawad – QA Automation Technical Leader