Appium : Architecture and Installation Steps - Windows

Appium is a open source tool to automate Mobile applications
Can automate Native,Web and Hybrid mobile applications
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Native application--calulate,calender or camera app(native to device)
Mobile application-- Ipay cash point(mobile browser- chrome )
Hybrid applications-- combination of both
Supports Andriod, IOS and window desktop platforms
Open sourse platform
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History
Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 under the name of "IOSAuto", written in the c# Programming Language
The program was open source in Aug 2012 using the Apache 2 licence
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Design:
-Appium use webdriver Script libary (we write our scripts using webdriver libary -scripts)
-Json Wire protocal our scripts will converted into HTTP rest based request which
can be understand by HTTP server(node.js)
- Http server runs this request in Mobile apps
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Framework'; vendor specific drivers
IOS 9.3 and above : Apple's XCUITest driver
IOS 9.3 and lower : Apple's UIAutomation driver
Andriod 4.2+ - google's UIautomator/UIAutomator2 driver
Andriod 2.3 through 4.2- --> selendriod driver
windows:winappDriver
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Appium client Libraries-
Ruby,Python,Java,JavaScript,PHP,C#,RobotFramework
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How Appium works?
-Appium works in a client -server architecture
-Appium is an HTTP server written using- node.js platform

Desired Capabilities:
Desired capabilities are a set of keys and values sent to the
 Appium Server to tell the server what kind of automation
session we're interested in starting up
PlatformName
PlatformVersion
DeviceName
App
automationName


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1. How to install appium with node.js 2. How to install appium with with Appium Desktop Client 3. How to check installation & dependencies (appium-doctor) 4. How to uninstall appium http://appium.io/ Step 1 : Check if node is installed on your system node -v Step 2 : Install node.js https://nodejs.org/en/download/ https://brew.sh/ brew install node Step 3 : Check if node is installed node -v npm -v Step 4 : Install appium npm install -g appium Step 5 : Check appium is installed appium -v Step 6 : Start appium appium Installing appium with appium desktop client Step 1 : Download appium desktop client - http://appium.io/ https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop Step 2 : Double click on the .dmg file to install appium desktop client Step 3 : Start appium desktop client Appium-Doctor https://www.npmjs.com/package/appium-... https://github.com/appium/appium-doctor npm install appium-doctor -g How to uninstall appium If installed through node.js npm uninstall -g appium If installed Appium Desktop Client Delete the app

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15 steps Installation Guide download

15 Step by Step Instructions to Configure and run Mobile Automation Testcases using Appium

• Download Java and set Java_Home in environmental variables
• Download Android STUDIO from below link
• https://developer.android.com/studio/index.html
• Check Android installation path in Machine
• Set Android_Home Environmental variables path to SDK location and include bin folder paths in PATH variable
• Open Android Studio and configure Virtual device/Emulator
• Open Emulator and check if it is working.
• Download Node.js                                                                                                                        
• https://nodejs.org/en/download/
• Set Node_Home Environmental variables path
• Set npm Environmental variables path
• Download Appium Server from Node
• Download Appium and Selenium Java client library
• Install Eclipse – Create a Project in Eclipse - configure Appium libraries
• Start Appium Server-

//Client  - Appium java  client

//Server  - Appium Server

ALL SET GOOOOO

//You can download any node module only using npm

1.1

npm install – g appium –  Latest Stable release version 1.6.9 – Android 7 version

npm uninstall -g appium

//npm install -g appium@beta --no-shrinkwrap

Appium – starts the server

• -2.1 – Android 11

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