The presentation for the Colombo Selenium Meetup conducted on March 2nd, 2016. The link to sample code/project demonstrated as well as the link to the video on how to setup Appium in a Visual Studio test project.

1. Automating Hybrid Apps w/
Appium
Ruzaik Refai
Software Quality Assurance Engineer – Automation
99X Technology
https://lk.linkedin.com/in/ruzaik

2. Hybrid App? What the heck’s that?
Native elements + Web elements = Hybrid Application
 Web elements are held within WebViews

3. Mobile Automation Tools
And more....

4. So... Why Appium?
 Free and open source
 Active community
 Similar to Selenium
 Supports multiple languages; e.g.- C#, Java, Ruby
 Supports Android and iOS (but not Windows Phone!)
 Supports native and hybrid applications
 Support mobile web (browser) automation

5. Let’s Get Started!
Coming up :
 Pre-Requisites
 Test Scripting
 Test Execution

6. Pre-Requisites
 IDE/text editor
 Android SDK/XCode for Android/iOS automation
 Physical devices or emulators
 Google Chrome
 Appium!!! (along with the language specific Appium driver)
 Node.js
 Download from http://appium.io/downloads.html

7. Scripting Time!!!!!
 Setting up Appium in Visual Studio – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aeby7_P8pKg
 Sample code - https://github.com/zaurik/HybridAppAutomation.git
 Visual Studio Emulator for Android - https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/msft-android-
emulator-vs.aspx

8. Tips
 To find connected devices:
adb devices
 To extract APK info (such package name, main activity):
<android SDK directory>build-tools<android version>aapt dump badging <path to
apk>
 To manually install an APK to an emulator:
adb install <path to apk>
 Android UI Automator directory:
<android SDK directory>toolsuiautomatorviewer.bat
 Getting a “Status 200” error with Appium? Try updating ChromeDriver in the following directories:
<Appium installation dir>node_modulesappiumbuildchromedriver
and
<Appium installation dir>node_modulesappiumnode_modulesappium-
chromedriverchromedriver