Appium is an open source automation tool to test native, webview and hybrid application in iOS and Android devices. Native apps are written using iOS or Android SDK. Mobile web apps are web apps access by browsers like chrome or safari. Appium is an open source project which can test mobile application automatically. Before you can use it to run test case for mobile application, you need to setup test environment for it. This article will show you how to setup Appium test environment step by step.

Could not find a device to launch. Hi Gopi, I am trying to run my test on Simulator. I am using this capabilities File app = new File(“/Users/xcodeclub/Desktop/UICatalog.app.zip”); DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities(); capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, “”); capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, “8.1”); capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, “iPhone 6”); capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.APP, app.getAbsolutePath()); IOSDriver driver = new IOSDriver(new URL(“capabilities); I am getting error badparameter request from Appium Like.

Hi Sir, by using Appium i am able to access my app but just want to open app using java code, i a getting the below exceptions please suggst me.

It has been more than a year since I wrote my first blog on mobile automation using Appium for Android applications. There were many requests to come up with a similar blog for iOS applications. But due to time constraints I couldn’t get to it.

But as they say, better late than never! I finally have a guide to help you get started with iOS automation using Appium. By the end of this post you should be able to set up your Mac with Appium and run a test for an iOS app using a simulator. Setup Here are the steps to set up Xcode and Appium on Mac OS Step1. Download Xcode is an integrated development environment (IDE) containing a suite of software development tools developed by Apple for developing software for OS X and iOS.

You need to download and install it so that you can download the code for an iOS app and run it on a simulator. Start an iOS emulator using Xcode The Simulator app, available within Xcode, presents the iPhone, iPad or Apple Watch user interface in a window on your Mac computer. To launch simulator 1. Launch Xcode.

Do one of the following:• Choose Xcode > Open Developer Tool > Simulator. • Control-click the Xcode icon in the Dock, and from the shortcut menu, choose Open Developer Tool > Simulator. Note: You can also add simulators for any specific combination you want to test. For more details refer to this Step3. Download Appium client Download the client.

I downloaded version 1.4.13. Install Python and Python client Library for Appium There are several client libraries (in Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, JavaScript, and C#) which support Appium’s extensions to the WebDriver protocol. When using Appium, you want to use these client libraries instead of your regular WebDriver client.

I have used the Appium Python client available. Assuming you have pip installed on your machine, you can use the following command to install it. Pip install Appium-Python-Client pip install Appium-Python-Client Step5. Start the Appium server console Just double click on Appium file to start the appium server console. Then click on Launch button to start the Appium node server Your first Test using Appium For this test we will use a Table Search with the UISearchController app. We picked the UISearchController app because its source code was available to everyone and we could show you how to build the app and run it on a simulator.

UISearchController is an iOS sample application that demonstrates how to use UISearchController. Download the app to test You can download the source code of Table Search with UISearchController app from. The code is available in both swift and Objective-C language. We will be using the code as it is a new programming language for iOS, OS X, watchOS, and tvOS apps that builds on the best of C and Objective-C. Open the project using Xcode Launch Xcode.