mobile app automation

Why We Need Desired Capabilities in Appium

Reading Time: 5 minutes Hi friends, initially, In this blog, we learn about “why we need Desired Capabilities in Appium“, so as we discussed earlier, Appium is a tool used for mobile testing. It also required a connection between mobile and Appium server that things which help to make a proper bond in between are “Desire Capabilities.” Appium tool is an open-source, cross-platform automation testing tool, and therefore the Continue Reading

APPIUM Tool: Get Started,Setup and run your First test

Reading Time: 4 minutes  Appium tool is an open source, cross-platform automation testing tool and therefore we use appium tool in testing native applications, mobile-web applications and hybrid applications using a webDriver. The tool majorly focus on both Android and ios apps and only restricted to the mobile application testing domain. So we will start with getting the environment set up, Appium tool installed and running it on your machine.  Pre-requisties Downloading Continue Reading

Launching any application using Appium

Reading Time: 2 minutes In the last blog we learned how to identify different elements using Appium (https://blog.knoldus.com/finding-elements-using-appium-inspector/) . In this blog we will see how we can launch any application using Appium. It is not always possible to get the APK of the application that you want to test using Appium. For example, if we want to test any system application such as the messages app of any Continue Reading

Finding elements using Appium Inspector

Reading Time: 4 minutes In the previous blog, we had seen how we can install Appium on our local system. So in this blog, we will see how we can use Appium inspector and find different types of elements in them. So lets first see why we require Appium inspector? Why Appium Inspector? Testing a mobile application and a web application is different from one another. The main difference Continue Reading

Sessions In Appium

Reading Time: 3 minutes Hello everyone, I hope you all are doing well. As we have already discussed what is Appium, what are the advantages of Appium over other automation tools in our previous blog, in this blog we will discuss sessions in Appium, how important it is in testing your application. Sessions in Appium are mainly used for communicating with Appium server. Let’s get started: Session: As in Continue Reading

Introduction to Appium and it’s Drivers – 2

Reading Time: 3 minutes In the previous blog we discussed different drivers which are supported by Appium. https://blog.knoldus.com/introduction-to-appium-and-its-drivers/ . In this blog we will learn about emulator, and installing GUI version of on Ubuntu. Emulator Setup An emulator is a software which uses computer resources to behave like another computer system. Using emulator we can emulate any android device on our local computer system. We can use AVD (Android Continue Reading

Introduction to Appium and it’s Drivers

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this blog we will see what is Appium and what are all the requirements for installing and running Appium on your system. Appium is an open source tool used for testing android, web, iOS and windows application as well. Appium is supporting native and hybrid applications as well where application is developed for on native platform such as for android or iOS. It also Continue Reading

Protractor: One stop for Web/Mobile Application Testing

Reading Time: 2 minutes Automation testing processes are gaining popularity in order to have a degree of excellence in terms of speed quality and accuracy. A strategy to adopt Automation Testing should clearly define the scope of the tool selected for execution. In contrast with the past, Angular has been a boost with the provision of the next generation framework and uses HTML to define the application’s user interface. Continue Reading

Nuts and Bolts Of Appium

Reading Time: 4 minutes Hello everyone, in this blog, I will be sharing some basic concept and installation process of Appium on your Linux system. In a job profile like QA you should be open to work on any kind of technology stack based on your project. You should not limit yourself to a specific skill set. In short as a QA you should be able to assure the Continue Reading

Appium-Mobile App Automation [configuration and Installation] Part-1

Reading Time: 2 minutes In this blog, we will describe Installation and configuration of Appium on Ubuntu machine. This is the first part of Mobile App Automation using Appium. Appium is open source test automation framework which is used for testing the hybrid app,native app and mobile web app on Android and iOS using webdriver. Appium work on distributed open source mobile UI testing framework. It run the automation Continue Reading