Appium App Automation Study. Study. Version: 1.0 Date: 4/14/2015 5:38:00 PM Status: Erstellt Author: Kai Höher, MSc

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1 Appium App Automation Study Study Version: 1.0 Date: 4/14/2015 5:38:00 PM Status: Erstellt Author: Kai Höher, MSc Document-ID: Classification: Intern Software Quality Lab. Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Druckdatum:

2 Table of Content DOCUMENT INFORMATION... III General... III Document-History... III Document-Quality assurance... III Purpose and contents of this document... III 1. GENERAL About the Company Product Portfolio Program Parts System Requirements OBJECT DETECTION XPath Appium Inspector SPECIFICATION IDE Test Case Creation Reusability Robustness EXECUTION Setup Recording Test Case Creation Test Execution ADMINISTRATION Installation on Mac OS X Appium.app Appium Server Client Documentation CONCLUSION Version: 1.0 Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt I / III

3 APPENDIX Table of Pictures Version: 1.0 Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt II / III

4 Document Information General Connections to other documents: This analysis is a part of test automation study by Software Quality Lab. Receivers: - Document-History Version Status Date Responsible person Reason for changes/ Comments 0.1 Document-Quality assurance Rolle Name Reachable (Place+Tel.+ ) Action Date Signature Author Kai Höher Created Reviewer Releaser Reviewed Released Purpose and contents of this document This document contains an objective analysis of a test automation tool and it should be available as a decision base for the people interested in the selection of a new tool. Version: 1.0 Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt III / III

5 1. General 1.1. About the Company Appium is an open source test tool powered by Sauce Labs, which has been founded by Jason Huggins, the creator of Selenium and John Dunham. Sauce Labs is a company from San Francisco, which is specialized on cloud-hosted, web and mobile application testing. Their features reach from automated cross-browser to manual testing Product Portfolio Sauce Labs covers a variety of features in the area of web and mobile testing: Automated cross-browser testing using Selenium Testing and JavaScript Unit Testing Automated mobile testing using Appium Manual Testing Sauce mobile testing is based on the Appium open source project. Appium interfaces directly with native ios and Android automation frameworks Program Parts The Appium concept consist of a client/server architecture. This also makes it possible to test via the cloud. Server: Appium Server is a server written in Node.js. It can be built and installed from source or installed directly from NPM (Node Packaged Modules). Appium.app (Mac OS X) and Appium.exe (Windows) are servers, which already include GUI wrappers. These come bundled with everything required to run the Appium server and also contain an Inspector, which enables you to check out the hierarchy of your app. Clients: There are client libraries available in Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and C#, which support Appium's extensions to the WebDriver protocol. All server and clients can be downloaded for free at appium.io. Version: 1.0 vom Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt 1 / 20

6 1.4. System Requirements Basically Appium is running on all major OS, but ios Apps can only be tested via Mac OS X. Details are shown in the following table. ios Mac OS X XCode 4.5+ w/ Command Line Tools Android Mac OS X or Windows 7+ or Linux Android SDK 16 (SDK < 16 in Selendroid mode) Version: 1.0 vom Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt 2 / 20

7 2. Object Detection Appium supports a subset of the WebDriver locator strategies to detect and find objects. GUI elements can be found by name (i.e. button title) or by XPath (i.e., an abstract representation of a path to an element, with certain constraints) XPath XPath (XML Path Language) is used to describe GUI elements, for example: //UIAApplication[1]/UIAWindow[1]/UIATextField[2] As a result of hierarchically structure it also shows the actual position of the element. Another benefit of these strings is that you can work later with placeholder and/or regular expressions in your code, which makes it robust and maintainable Appium Inspector The Appium Inspector is part of the Appium.app and is used to analyse the GUI of an app. Figure 1 shows a screenshot of the Appium Inspector under Mac OS X. Figure 1 Appium Inspector On the left side the UI elements are shown, structured like a file system. You can either click on an element within the current screen of the app, which is shown on the right side, or go through the hierarchical structure, like going into folders and subfolders of a file system, to get the information of an element. Version: 1.0 vom Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt 3 / 20

8 Once one element is selected you see all necessary technical information of it in the Details box in the middle. Besides some general information, you can also see the useful XPath, which has already been explained in the previous chapter. Via checkboxes at the filters section (shown at the top) it s possible to activate and deactivate disabled and invisible objects. The record and refresh buttons as well as the other options at the bottom are used to record user interaction and create code, which can be used for tests. Details of this feature will be covered within an upcoming chapter. Version: 1.0 vom Author: Kai Höher, MSc Status: Erstellt 4 / 20

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