study-appium

My study notes for appium

Installation

Since we are using appium python, we need to install pip

sudo easy_install pip

Install from PyPi, as 'Appium-Python-Client'.

sudo chown -R `whoami` /Library/Python/2.7/
pip install Appium-Python-Client

Install xcode command line tool

1. open xcode
2. click on xcode on the top left corner navigation bar->Open Developer Tool -> More Developer Tool
3. Find correct commend-line tool
4. download and install

Install brew

ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

Install Ideviceinstaller

brew install ideviceinstaller

How to run appium?

I like to open two terminal, 1 for Appium, and 1 for running appium

/Users/chenchenzheng/github/appium/python-client

How to build a debug version of app?

user commandline like this under your app directory

xcodebuild -workspace whistler.xcworkspace -scheme whistler -configuration Debug -sdk iphonesimulator9.1

File Notes

desired_capabilities.py

This is device configuration file, you need to choose the correct device. In my example, I'm using a actual device. You can find more definition here: http://appium.io/slate/en/master/?python#appium-server-capabilities

def get_desired_capabilities(app):
    desired_caps = {
        'deviceName': 'iPhone 6s',
        'platformName': 'iOS',
            'platformVersion': '9.1',
        'udid': 'bc41d7bbe35223441656630117358998015b5c8f',
        # 'app' : '/Users/chenchenzheng/Desktop/whistler.ipa',
        'app': PATH('../../apps/' + app),
        'bundleId':'com.ar-devices.whistler'
    }

    return desired_caps

Tests

1. verify walkthrough
2. verify facebook login
3. verify digits login
4. verify if there are five tabs
5. verify logout will bring app to walkthrough

Notes

• Read more information here: https://github.com/appium/python-client
• if encounter error: Brew doctor says: “Warning: /usr/local/include isn't writable.”
  • user this:

    sudo chown -R `whoami` /usr/local/