Mobile Automation with Appium

At this workshop you will learn how to get started with automating Android with Appium. We’ll learn how to capture elements in Ruby using irb (interactive Ruby), writing a test with rspec. Once we have our tests established, we’ll then go into setting up a mobile device grid. Running the tests in parallel, distributed, and capturing critical report data (logs, screenshots, and video). We will also run some examples against a cloud testing service.

Outline/structure of the session

Getting Started

• Connecting android emulators to appium
• Finding elements needed to write tests.
• Creating solid tests
• Capturing critical test data. (logs, screenshots, video)

Reporting

• Generating Allure report with captured metadata.

Grid Setup

• Getting the needed information about devices
• Starting a selenium Grid Hub
• Connecting emulators (nodes) to the Hub

Running tests on the Grid

• Running tests in parallel
• Running tests distributed
• Running tests on a cloud service

Learning outcome

Attendees will come away with knowledge of how to automate android native apps with Appium. Getting started with setting up a Android mobile device grid. Running tests single threaded, in parallel, and distributed. Also capturing critical report data (logs, screenshots, and video), and running mobile tests on a cloud test service.