Appium setup and Installation

Android Frameworks Overview

Android Instrumentation Framework:

•  Instrumentation methods will helpful to control the components in the android devices.
• This framework is built on top of the JUNIT and its a standard test framework for any Java application.
• Mock objects, methods for creating mock systems objects to either stubbing other component dependency or simulating the process.
• Instrumentation Test Runner the primary plumbing for running the test on android.
• Pros: Its helps to run the test on isolated ways in a white box manner.

Robotium

• Open source library extending Junit with plenty of useful methods for Android Ui testing
• Powerful and robust automatic black box test cases for Android apps.
• Supports native, hybrid and mobile web testing
• And its extension the solo frameworks
  • Automatic scaling x,y.
  • Multipath drags
  • Automatic screen shots.
  • Mock location
  • Changing the device language
  • Control wifi connection.

Calabash

• Behavior driven test framework for native Android, native iOS and mobile web.
• Tests are described in Cucumber and then converted to Robotium or Frank at run time.
• Supports currently about 80 natural language commands(controllers)
• New controllers can be implemented in Ruby or Java.
• Command Line Inspector for finding right UI element name/ids.
• Web view support is implemented with Java script injection on to be web view.

UI Automator.

• Googles test framework for testing the native android apps across device.
• Works only on Android API level greater than 16.
• Run Junit Testcases with special privileges.

Appium Installation Guide:
http://vijayaragavang.github.io/appium.github.io/

Presentation: https://speakerdeck.com/vijayaragavang/mobile-automation-framework-for-android

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