Why Automation Testing Require.
1)Automate your testing procedure when you have lot of regression work.
2)Automate your load testing work for creating virtual users to check load
capacity of your application.
3)Automate your testing work when your GUI is almost frozen but you have lot
of frequently functional changes.
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Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid
applications on iOS and Android platforms. Native apps are those written
using the iOS or Android SDKs. Mobile web apps are web apps accessed using
a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in
‘Browser’ app on Android). Hybrid apps have a wrapper around a “webview” –
a native control that enables interaction with web content. Projects like
Phonegap, make it easy to build apps using web technologies that are then
bundled into a native wrapper, creating a hybrid app.
Importantly, Appium is “cross-platform”: it allows you to write tests against
multiple platforms (iOS, Android), using the same API. This enables code reuse
between iOS and Android testsuites.
Appium is an open source, cross-platform test automation tool for native,
hybrid and mobile web apps, tested on simulators (iOS, FirefoxOS), emulators
(Android), and real devices (iOS, Android, FirefoxOS).
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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.
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.
4)A mobile automation framework should be open source, in spirit and practice
as well as in name!
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Appium Design
We don’t need to compile in any Appium-specific or third-party code or frameworks
to your app. This means you’re testing the same app you’re shipping. The vendor-provided
frameworks we use are:
1)iOS: Apple’s UIAutomation
2)Android 4.2+: Google’s UiAutomator
3)Android 2.3+: Google’s Instrumentation. (Instrumentation support is provided by
bundling a separate project, Selendroid)
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Reference Links for APPIUM :-
software-testing-tutorials-automation
software-testing-tutorials-automation
3pillarglobal
guru99
seleniumhq
appium.io