Create First Appium Test

Appium Tutorial

How To Create First Test Using Appium ?

To create a test in appium, follow these steps :

Create a Maven Project.

Add dependencies in pom.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

<name>AndroidProject</name>

<url>http://maven.apache.org</url>

<groupId>org.example</groupId>

<artifactId>AndroidProject</artifactId>

<version>1.0-SNAPSHOT</version>

<properties>

<maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>

<maven.compiler.target>8</maven.compiler.target>

</properties>

<dependencies>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.beust</groupId>

<artifactId>jcommander</artifactId>

<version>1.48</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>io.appium</groupId>

<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>

<version>7.4.1</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.testng</groupId>

<artifactId>testng</artifactId>

<version>6.14.3</version>

<scope>test</scope>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>

<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>

<version>3.14.0</version>

</dependency>

<dependency>

<groupId>com.google.guava</groupId>

<artifactId>guava</artifactId>

<version>23.0</version>

</dependency>

</dependencies>

</project>

Create a package in src/test/java as 'appiumexamples'.

Create a testng class within this package.

To inspect a web element :

Launch the emulator.
Go to the desired mobile page.
Now, start Appium Server.
Click on Search icon.
It will open a session window.
Add Desired capabilites as shown in the image :

Start session.
A window will be opened that contains the mobile screen view of the emulator.
Right-click on this mobile screen view and click on Inspect Element.
Locate the webelement.

To know the udid of device :

Run command 'adb devices' on command prompt.
It will show a list of attached emulator.
The integers written next to emulator is its udid.

Add below lines of code in testng class :

package appiumexamples; import org.testng.annotations.Test; import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement; import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver; import org.testng.annotations.BeforeClass; import java.net.MalformedURLException; import java.net.URL; import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement; import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities; import org.openqa.selenium.support.FindBy; import org.testng.annotations.AfterClass; public class FirstAppiumTest { AndroidDriver<MobileElement> driver; @FindBy(xpath = "//*[@text='AUTHENTICATE']") WebElement authenticationButton; @Test public void firstAppiumTest() { authenticationButton.click(); driver.findElementByAccessibilityId("Start").click(); } @BeforeClass public void startSession() throws MalformedURLException { DesiredCapabilities caps = new DesiredCapabilities(); caps.setCapability("deviceName", "Pixel 3 API 28"); // device Name caps.setCapability("udid", 5554); // DeviceId from "adb devices" command caps.setCapability("platformName", "Android"); caps.setCapability("skipUnlock", "true"); caps.setCapability("app","C:\\Users\\Dell\\appiumProject\\AndroidAppium\\src\\main\\resources\\apk\\cleardil_sdk_android_example_1.0.0.apk");caps.setCapability("noReset", "false"); driver = new AndroidDriver<MobileElement>(new URL("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub"), caps); } @AfterClass public void closeSession() { driver.closeApp(); } }