Overview

Appium is an HTTP based UI testing framework for web, mobile, and hybrid applications. Appium helps us confirm successful navigational functionality by allowing us to automate the navigation process.

Setup

1. npm install
2. npx pod-install
3. npm run appium-doctor-android  and troubleshoot any issues.
4. npm run appium-doctor-ios  and troubleshoot any issues.

Usage

Simply put, Appium is a server that can communicate with your iOS/Android emulator. As such, we must launch the Appium server and the desired emulator(s).

• In a separate terminal, run npm run appium-server
• In the original terminal, run npm run android  to launch the app in the Android emulator
• npm run ios  to launch the app in the iOS emulator.

To run the tests, simply enter:

• npm run appium-test -- --os=android   or   npm run appium-test -- --os=ios

By default, the Android tests will be run.

Issues/Troubleshooting

• Carthage can be installed with the command brew install carthage

• Your .bashrc or .zshrc file should contain the following environment variables to satisfy appium-doctor-android requirements.

export ANDROID_HOME=$HOME/Library/Android/sdk
export JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-8.jdk/Contents/Home
export PATH=$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin