Minimal Pytest Appium setup

Running the tests on local device

This is written for Windows

1. Virtual environment

This is to create a project specific environment and make sure we don't get any unwanted global dependencies.

Create the virtual environment in the .virtualenv folder (only has to be done once);

virtualenv .virtualenv

Activate the virtual environment;

.virtualenv/bin/activate

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

npm install -g appium

3. Build Cordova app

cordova build android

4. Update script with device details

In tests/test_app.py theres a section which has to be updated with the details on the device you're using;

'platformName' : 'Android',
'platformVersion' : '6.0',
'deviceName' : 'Android',
'autoWebview': 'true',
'udid' : '0a30789d',

The udid can be found running adb devices.

5. Run tests

Start the appium server appium.
Run tests py.test tests.

Run on AWS Device Farm

Comment out the device details in tests/test_app.py first, otherwise it won't work.

Then follow this guide; https://docs.aws.amazon.com/devicefarm/latest/developerguide/test-types-android-appium-python.html

IMPORTANT:

AWS Device Farm does not support any dependencies with native C extensions. MarkupSafe, which is included in pytest-bdd, has that so replace the MarkupSafe .whl-file in wheelhouse folder with the following;

https://www.dropbox.com/s/218uca7n0nzxvce/MarkupSafe-1.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl?dl=0

oskarer/cordova-pytest-bdd