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Appium is a tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. It supports iOS native apps written in Objective-C or Swift and Android native apps written in Java or Kotlin. It also supports mobile web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Perform Appium automation tests on LambdaTest's online cloud.
Learn the basics of Appium testing on the LambdaTest platform.
Before you can start performing App automation testing with Appium, you would need to follow these steps:
- Install the latest Python build from the official website. We recommend using the latest version.
- Make sure pip is installed in your system. You can install pip from here.
Clone the LambdaTest’s LT-appium-python and navigate to the code directory as shown below:
git clone https://github.com/ritamganguli/proxy_server_parallel/
cd proxy_server_parallel
Install the required dependencies by using the following command:
pip install mitm proxy
pip install selenium==3.12.0
pip install -r requirements.txt
- Basically, first you need to set up the MITM proxy and accept all the certificates for it ( By default it allows only HTTP request)
Download Link: https://mitmproxy.org/
- Mitm Proxy runs on port 8080 so please make sure that you stop all the activities like Jenkins which are running on port 8080
.\jenkins.exe stop
And to start back the Jenkins once testing is done
.\jenkins.exe start
-
Start the proxy server script that you made in order to mock up the api's
mitmproxy -s proxy.py
-
Start up the tunnel and pass up the proxy host and the proxy port over there
./LT --user {acoount_id} --key {acees_key} --proxy-port 8080 -v --shared-tunnel --proxy-host localhost --ingress-only --mitm
-
Start testing your testcase over lambdatest
python proxy2.py
Code Logic
import os
from mitmproxy import http
import json
def request(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
script_name = os.getenv("SCRIPT_NAME", "ritam3") # Use the passed script name or default
mock_data_map = {
"ritam1": [{"name": "Orange", "id": 1}],
"ritam2": [{"name": "Banana", "id": 2}],
"ritam3": [{"name": "Mango", "id": 3}],
}
if flow.request.pretty_url == "https://demo.playwright.dev/api-mocking/api/v1/fruits":
mock_data = mock_data_map.get(script_name, []) #basically we pass this test name over the script name and the data comes accordingly
mock_response = json.dumps(mock_data).encode("utf-8")
flow.response = http.Response.make(200, mock_response, {"Content-Type": "application/json"})
For eg how we call the name
- Basically, first you need to set up the MITM proxy and accept all the certificates for it ( By default it allows only HTTP request)
Download Link: https://mitmproxy.org/
- Mitm Proxy runs on port 8080 so please make sure that you stop all the activities like Jenkins which are running on port 8080
.\jenkins.exe stop
And to start back the Jenkins once testing is done
.\jenkins.exe start
-
Start the proxy server script that you made in order to mock up the api's
mitmproxy -s response.py
-
Start up the tunnel and pass up the proxy host and the proxy port over there
./LT --user {acoount_id} --key {acees_key} --proxy-port 8080 -v --shared-tunnel --proxy-host localhost --ingress-only --mitm
-
Start testing your testcase over lambdatest
python proxy2.py
Code Logic
import os
import json
from mitmproxy import http
# Initialize dictionaries to hold responses
original_responses = {}
mocked_responses = {}
def set_script_name(name):
os.environ["SCRIPT_NAME"] = name
def response(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
# Check for domain of interest
if "demo.playwright.dev/api-mocking" in flow.request.pretty_url:
# Save original response
original_responses[flow.request.pretty_url] = json.loads(flow.response.content)
save_responses(original_responses, 'api_original_responses.json') #---> Name of the file where original api response will be saved
# Mock specific responses
mock_data = get_mock_data(flow.request.pretty_url)
# If mock data exists for the URL, proceed to mock response
if mock_data is not None:
mock_response = json.dumps(mock_data).encode("utf-8")
flow.response = http.Response.make(200, mock_response, {"Content-Type": "application/json"})
# Save mocked response
mocked_responses[flow.request.pretty_url] = mock_data
save_responses(mocked_responses, 'api_mocked_responses.json') #---> Name of the file where mocked api response will be saved
def get_mock_data(pretty_url):
# Environment variable for script name
script_name = os.getenv("SCRIPT_NAME", "ritam2")
mock_data_map = {
"ritam1": [{"name": "Orange", "id": 1}],
"ritam2": [{"name": "Banana", "id": 2}],
"ritam3": [{"name": "Mango", "id": 3}],
}
if pretty_url == "https://demo.playwright.dev/api-mocking/api/v1/fruits":
return mock_data_map.get(script_name)
else:
return None
def save_responses(data, filename):
try:
with open(filename, 'w') as file:
json.dump(data, file, indent=4)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error saving the responses to {filename}: {e}")
- Basically, first you need to set up the MITM proxy and accept all the certificates for it ( By default it allows only HTTP request)
Download Link: https://mitmproxy.org/
- Mitm Proxy runs on port 8080 so please make sure that you stop all the activities like Jenkins which are running on port 8080
.\jenkins.exe stop
And to start back the Jenkins once testing is done
.\jenkins.exe start
-
Start the proxy server script that you made in order to mock up the api's
mitmproxy -s mock_fetch.py
-
Start up the tunnel and pass up the proxy host and the proxy port over there
./LT --user {acoount_id} --key {acees_key} --proxy-port 8080 -v --shared-tunnel --proxy-host localhost --ingress-only --mitm
-
Start testing your testcase over lambdatest
python proxy4.py
Code Logic
def write_script(script_name, filename='ritam.py'):
script_content = f"""
import os
import json
from mitmproxy import http
# Initialize dictionaries to hold responses
original_responses = {{}}
mocked_responses = {{}}
def set_script_name(name):
os.environ["SCRIPT_NAME"] = name
def response(flow: http.HTTPFlow) -> None:
# Check for domain of interest
if "demo.playwright.dev/api-mocking" in flow.request.pretty_url:
# Save original response
original_responses[flow.request.pretty_url] = json.loads(flow.response.content)
save_responses(original_responses, 'api_original_responses.json')
# Mock specific responses
mock_data = get_mock_data(flow.request.pretty_url)
# If mock data exists for the URL, proceed to mock response
if mock_data is not None:
mock_response = json.dumps(mock_data).encode("utf-8")
flow.response = http.Response.make(200, mock_response, {{"Content-Type": "application/json"}})
# Save mocked response
mocked_responses[flow.request.pretty_url] = mock_data
save_responses(mocked_responses, 'api_mocked_responses.json')
def get_mock_data(pretty_url):
# Environment variable for script name
script_name = os.getenv("SCRIPT_NAME", "{script_name}")
mock_data_map = {{
"ritam1": [{{"name": "Orange", "id": 1}}],
"ritam2": [{{"name": "Banana", "id": 2}}],
"ritam3": [{{"name": "Mango", "id": 3}}],
}}
if pretty_url == "https://demo.playwright.dev/api-mocking/api/v1/fruits":
return mock_data_map.get(script_name)
else:
return None
def save_responses(data, filename):
try:
with open(filename, 'w') as file:
json.dump(data, file, indent=4)
except Exception as e:
print(f"Error saving the responses to {{filename}}: {{e}}")
"""
# Write the formatted script content to the specified file
with open(filename, 'w') as file:
file.write(script_content)
How to use in other functions
from ritam3 import write_script
write_script('ritam3', 'mock_fetch.py')
Info Note: If you are unable to run the automation script with the above mentioned commands try 'python' command except for 'python3'.
Your test results would be displayed on the test console (or command-line interface if you are using terminal/cmd) and on the LambdaTest App Automation Dashboard.
If you fail to run the tests, try creating virtual env and installing the dependencies in that environment to run the tests. Creating and activating a virtual environment
pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate
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