📱 Appium for Mobile Testing

📱 Appium for Mobile Testing

🚀 What is Appium?

Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, hybrid, and mobile web applications on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms.

It uses the WebDriver protocol, similar to Selenium, and allows you to write tests in any language: Java, Python, JavaScript, C#, Ruby, etc.

✅ Why Use Appium?

• ✅ Cross-platform: Write once, run on Android and iOS

• ✅ Language-agnostic: Supports Java, Python, JavaScript, and more

• ✅ No app modification required: Test real apps without changing code

• ✅ Native, hybrid & web testing in one framework

• ✅ Integrates with CI/CD pipelines and cloud platforms (BrowserStack, Sauce Labs, etc.)
  
  

📦 Supported App Types

• 📱 Native (built with iOS/Android SDKs)

• 🌐 Mobile Web (accessed in a browser on the device)

• 🔁 Hybrid (e.g., Ionic, React Native)
  
  

🧪 Basic Appium Test Flow (Java + TestNG)

import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;

import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import org.testng.annotations.*;

import java.net.URL;

public class AppiumSampleTest {

    private AndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver;

    @BeforeClass

    public void setup() throws Exception {

        DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities();

        caps.setCapability("platformName", "Android");

        caps.setCapability("deviceName", "emulator-5554");

        caps.setCapability("app", "/path/to/app.apk");

        driver = new AndroidDriver<>(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), caps);

    }

    @Test

    public void loginTest() {

        driver.findElementById("com.example:id/username").sendKeys("admin");

        driver.findElementById("com.example:id/password").sendKeys("password");

        driver.findElementById("com.example:id/loginBtn").click();

    }

    @AfterClass

    public void tearDown() {

        driver.quit();

    }

}

🛠️ Tools You’ll Need

• Appium Server: Installed via npm (npm install -g appium)

• Android Studio: With emulators & SDK

• Java & Maven/TestNG/JUnit

• Appium Inspector (optional): For element inspection

• Real device or emulator/simulator
  
  

🔁 Typical Use Cases

• Test login/signup flows in a native app

• Validate form submission and navigation

• Automate smoke tests in mobile CI pipelines

• Perform cross-device compatibility tests

• Use Appium + Cucumber for BDD mobile testing

📚 Learning Resources

• 📘 Appium Official Docs

• 📦 GitHub – Appium Sample Java Projects
  
  

✅ Next Steps: Practice with This Framework

You can explore and extend Appium mobile automation using this framework:

📦 Repo:
🔗 K11TechLab Cucumber BDD Java Full Stack Framework

✅ What's Included:

• ✅ Appium support for Android & iOS

• ✅ Clean Page Object Model for mobile screen interactions

• ✅ Cucumber BDD integration with Gherkin steps

• ✅ Platform-specific driver setup (-Dplatform=android | ios)

• ✅ Flexible config support (env, browser, deviceName)

• ✅ Easy CLI execution & CI integration support

📌 Need Help Getting Started?

Reach out or raise an issue on GitHub — or contribute by adding new examples!

Happy Testing! 🚀