The slides cover the introduction to Appium, why is Appium used, Basic concepts, and terminologies used in Appium, Drivers supported by Appium.

1. Automation testing
with Appium
Presented By:
Ankur Thakur
QA Consultant
&
Vandana Yadav
Sr. QA Consultant

2. Our Agenda
01 Introduction of Appium
02 Basic Appium Concepts
03 Appium supported drivers
04 Demo

3. Introduction
What is Appium
Appium is an open-source automation tool or we can call it an open-source
automation framework which allows us to automate the different type of mobile
applications, it could be a web application, it could be a native or hybrid
application.

4. Why Appium
● Appium is an open source tool.
● Appium is cross-platform.
● It supports multiple programming languages(java, python, ruby, c#
and many more).
● Appium can work on the emulator as well as on the real devices.

5. Basic Appium concepts
Architecture:

6. Session
● The session is a communication medium between client and Appium
server
● The client can create a session by sending the post/session request to the
server.
● This session req contains desired capabilities.

7. Desired Capabilities
Desired capabilities are a list of keys and values sent to the Appium server for
creating a new session.
For example:
If we want to create an android session for testing an android app, we will be
required to provide these fields in the desired capabilities file.

8. ● platformName : Which defines on which platform we are performing
testing.
● platformVersion : Operating system version is defined in this field.
● deviceName : Name of the device which we are using to run our tests on.
● app : Defines the path to the installation file i.e. APK or .IPA file from
where the driver can get and install the application to the device.

9. Example:
{ "platformName": "Android",
"platformVersion": "9",
"deviceName": "Note 9",
"app": "/path/to/my.app"
}

10. Appium supported drivers
● Apple's XCUITest
● Apple's UI Automation
● UI Automator/UI Automator2

11. Apple's XCUITest
● It is used for testing iOS applications for version 9.3 and above.
● It is used to create and run unit test cases, performance tests, and UI tests for
Xcode.
● It can be also used for automating applications on iPad and tvOS as well.

12. Apple UI automator
● It is used for testing iOS applications for version 9.3 and lower.
● JavaScript is used to write test scripts which uses app's interface to execute the
tests while the app in running in the iOS device.
● Mac OS installed system and iOS device are required for writing code and
using Appium.

13. UI Automator/UI Automator2 for Android
● UI Automator is a UI testing framework suitable for functional UI testing
across system and installed apps.
● It provides a framework for testing UI elements of the applications.
● It can be used to automate the all aspects of android applications.

14. Appium Installation
Prerequisite:
● Java
● Android SDK
● Node

15. ADB
● ADB stands for Android Debug Bridge.
● It is a versatile command-line tool that lets you communicate with any
connected device.
● It is used for installing and debugging apps in emulator and real devices as
well.

16. Command for installing APPIUM:
npm install -g appium
Check whether appium is installed or not:
appium
Verifying the Installation
appium-doctor --android

17. appium-doctor
● Attempts to diagnose and fix common Node, iOS and Android configuration
issues before starting Appium.

18. References
● http://appium.io/docs/en/about-appium/intro/
● http://appium.io/
● https://www.udemy.com/course/appium-selenium-for-mobile-
automation-testing/

19. Thank You !