Mobile Automation with Appium and Cucumber in Java

Desired Capabilities for Appium (Androig/iOS)

• Desired Capabilities are keys and values encoded in a JSON objecti sentby Appium clients to the server when a new automation session is requested
• Desired Capabilities can be scripted in the WebDriver test or set within the Appium Server GUI (via an Inspector Session)

Get the Device ID

• iOS From command line : $ xcrun simctl list

• Android From command line : $ adb devices

Appium Inspector in Appium Desktop

• Appium Desktop offers an Inspector that you can use to look up or locate elements of an application.
• It alsı lets you perform basic actions on these elements (such as tap and send keys)

Dependencies

• Appium Java Client

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.appium/java-client -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.appium</groupId>
            <artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
        </dependency>

• TestNG

        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
            <version>7.4.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

Identifying UI Elements

Appium supports a subset of the WebDriver locator strategies such as:

• find by "class"
• find by "xpath" Appium additionally supports some of the Mobile JSON Wire Protocol locator strategies.

Android and iOS Locator Strategies

Cucumber

• Cucumber was created to drive Behavior Driven Development (BDD) process.
• In Cucumber world, these files are called Feature files.
• Once development is ready, the developers and(or QA will write Step Definitions.

Dependencies

• Cucumber JUnit

        <!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/cucumber-junit -->
        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

• Cucumber Java

        <dependency>
            <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
            <artifactId>cucumber-java8</artifactId>
            <version>7.0.0</version>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>

• Gherkin

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/io.cucumber/gherkin -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>io.cucumber</groupId>
    <artifactId>gherkin</artifactId>
    <version>23.0.1</version>
</dependency>

Requirements for Windows

• Java JDK 8 Installation -> https://www.oracle.com/tr/java/technologies/javase-downloads.html
• Jetbrains IntelliJ IDEA Installation -> https://www.jetbrains.com/idea/
• Gherkin IntelliJ Plugin -> https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/9164-gherkin
• Cucumber for Java -> Cucumber for Java IntelliJ Plugin -> https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7212-cucumber-for-java
• Appium Server and Documentation -> https://appium.io/
• Android Mobile Devices