Mobile testing w/ Appium + Java

Mobile automated testing using Appium and Java

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🧠You will learn to

What is Appium
Create an automated Android test
Create an automated iOS test
Find element locators using Appium Inspector
Run tests in Sauce Labs real devices
Run tests in parallel

Testing for Good

🌎Testing for Good enables great test automation engineering while shaping a more equitable society.👩‍💻

Today, we're asking for donations for Environmental Working Group

About Environmental Working Group

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Since 1993, we've worked tirelessly to protect public health. Whether it's spotlighting harmful industry standards, speaking out against outdated government legislation or empowering consumers with breakthrough education and research, we're in this fight.

And we're not going anywhere.

👉 While the event is free, Sauce Labs encourages all attendees to

👉 donate

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Your Instructor: Eyal Yovel

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Setup

Sauce Labs setup

Free Sauce account
Make sure you know how to find your Sauce Labs Username and Access Key by going to the Sauce Labs user settings page

Appium setup

We will run our automated tests on Sauce Labs devices; therefore, there is no need to install Appium Server.
Please install appium inspector. Appium Inspector is basically just an Appium client (like WebdriverIO, Appium's Java client, etc...) with a user interface.

Demo App(s)

The demo app that has been used for all these tests can be found here.
Be aware of the fact that and iOS simulator uses a different build then a iOS real device. So please check the file you download.

Gitpod setup

ℹ Gitpod lets you run an entire Dev environment from a browser! You can use this approach if you don't have time or you don't know how to setup a local Java environment.

Sign up for a free GitHub account
Fork this repository

Make sure you are logged into GitHub
Click the Fork in the upper right of the GitHub.
Give the repo a ⭐ while you're here 🤩

Click here

OR
In the browser address bar, add your GitHub url (https://github.com/USERNAME/this-repo-name) with https://gitpod.io/# * The resulting url should look as follows:

  > https://gitpod.io/#https://github.com/USERNAME/mobile-appium-java-workshop

Once the Gitpod.io URL is loaded, you will need to sign in with the GitHub account you created earlier
Once the development environment is loaded, you should see 'Ready to test!' in the Terminal window in the lower portion of the window, run the following commands in that Terminal to set your SAUCE_USERNAME, SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY:

eval $(gp env -e SAUCE_USERNAME=<sauce_username>)
eval $(gp env -e SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY=<sauce_access_key>)

Replace <sauce_username>, <sauce_access_key> with your credentials

Once you have run those 2 commands, you can run the following commands to test your environment variables:

echo $SAUCE_USERNAME
echo $SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY

Run sanity tests

mvn clean test -DtestngXmlFile=myDemoTests.xml

Click here to see an example console output.

[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO]  T E S T S
[INFO] -------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Running TestSuite
*** BeforeMethod hook. Running method demoTest ***
region is us
*** Start demoTest test ***
*** AfterMethod hook ***
[INFO] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0, Time elapsed: 0.488 s - in TestSuite
[INFO] 
[INFO] Results:
[INFO] 
[INFO] Tests run: 1, Failures: 0, Errors: 0, Skipped: 0
[INFO] 
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  3.579 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2022-07-04T12:05:35+01:00
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------

In the next video I demo how to fork the repo and connect to Gitpod:

mobile_workshop_prep.mp4

✅👏Environment setup is complete if tests passed

Local environment setup

Sign up for a free GitHub account
Fork this repository

Make sure you are logged into GitHub
Click the Fork in the upper right of the GitHub.
Give the repo a ⭐ while you're here 🤩

Clone your fork of the repository to your machine. Must have Git installed

git clone URL_OF_YOUR_FORK

Setup environment variables on your system