x-platform-appium-boilerplate

Cross platform example testing codebase for Appium

This is an example of how Appium can be used to test a cross platform application, albeit in this case a very very simple one.

Prerequisites

The following dependencies will need to be installed first. Please follow their installation and set up guides.

• Ruby and RubyGems
• Node and npm
• Carthage brew install carthage

Android

• Android Studio
• JDK
• Android SDK

iOS

• Xcode 8+
• Xcode Command Line Tools
• iOS Simulators

You do not need both Android and iOS but will need which ever is relevant to the tests you are running.

Once above dependencies are added please run:

$ gem install bundler
$ bundle install
$ npm install

Configuration

In the config folder you will find two additional folders: android & ios. These contain appium.txt capabilities files. Within these you wil need to edit the fields based up the configuration you have.

Example iOS:

[caps]
platformName="iOS"
deviceName="iPhone SE"
platformVersion="10.3"
automationName="XCUITest"
app="ios/HelloWorld.app.zip"

deviceName is the name of the simulator that you want to run on, to determine which ones you have installed you can run: $ instruments -s devices or open Xcode > Window > Devices which will list the available simulators.

platformVersion is the version of iOS that will be running. This needs to be the same as the simulators on which you are running.

automationName this is only really applicable to iOS and newer flavours of iOS (Xcode 8+) it needs to be set to: XCUITest.

app is just a reference to where the app under test is located. You just need to make sure this points to the iOS app not an Android one.

Running the tests

The first step needed is to build the example applications. Please follow the below steps for iOS:

• From the terminal run: xcodebuild -showsdks This should list the sdk's you currently have available to build to. Select one with simulator in the name and note / copy this part: -sdk iphonesimulator10.3
• Now from terminal run: xcodebuild -sdk iphonesimulator10.3 This should build the project files to the following directory /ios/build, update your appium.txt to reflect the location of where the now build .app file is.

This project uses rake tasks to run the tests for iOS and Android. A list of available tasks can be seen by running: rake --tasks.

To run iOS tests:

$ rake ios_cucumber

This will first spin up an Appium server and then launch Cucumber. This test can take an additional argument passed by: rake ios_cucumber[profile]. Profiles can be set up for cucumber in the regular way by using the cucumber.yml file.

To run Android tests:

$ rake android_cucumber

This works exactly the same as the iOS tests above.

Android Caveats

• An Android Virtual Device must be running before tests are started.