I am new in Automating the apps for testing Android and i like to advance to this level... I have researched for Appium and Calabash... but knowing the difference pretty complicated.. There are my questions:
1: For Calabash, do we need the source code, i mean can i have APK and give test cases and so on? or do I NEED the source code even if im using the elements from app?
2: I heard i can use the Appium with cucumber, and same question do i need source code for that?
I have researched about it and all i get is for Apple apps... but nothing much for android...
You don't need source code. All you need is apk file, packageName and ActivityName to launch the app.
In Appium framework, all you need is app file (for android it will be simply .apk file).
Source code will be never needed, all elements from UI that you would like to interact with, can be simply get from Appium Inspector.
For both calabash and Appium you don't need to source code. you can automate application using apk file.
Yes you can use Appium with cucumber.
To find object locators of application use calabash console and Android UI Viewer, Appium GUI.
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Can I test flutter app (for example in apk) using WebdriverIO?
I saw there is a flutter driver for Appium. Is it supported with WebriverIO as well? How is it handled?
Yes you can. You have to use Appium Automation to interact with your Flutter mobile app.
Setup your own WebdriverIO Appium project, or start from a featured boilerplate, as such.
Integrate the appium-flutter-driver into your project and start using it inside your test cases.
LE: Alternatively, you can try SauceLab's Appium-Flutter-Driver implementation using WebdriverIO. See it here.
You can find multiple examples online for configurations. A simple Google search even gives you a full video tutorial on how to setup everything.
as we know Appium has functionality to generate script for Mobile Testing. actually I want to to add this functionality in project. is it possible using java.
You have to implement the functionality by yourself, probably build a full app.
Appium-Desktop is s Node.js application, if you are familiar with js you can get idea for implementation from source code
Hello Stack Overflow community,
I'm planning to develop a UI test automation for an iOS application.
The problem is that I don't have access to the source code but only the finished ipa file of the app.
Is there a possibility to write UI tests with EarlGrey or do I need the source code of the app?
With Appium it should be possible to write UI tests without the source code.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Original EarlGrey by Google required access to iOS project, you can check here the setup.
The new EarlGrey 2 is actually has a similar concept and you need to have source code to use it.
Appium can use developer-signed .app file on simulator. If you want to run tests on real device you need have developer-signed .ipa file plus re-sign WebDriverAgent with the same iOS developer account.
So technically Appium does not require source code, but you need to have access to iOS developer certificates that been used for build
Is it possible to automate iOS native application with amCharts elements using Appium or Perfecto ? [Sample amChart]
Perfecto is just mobile device cloud provider, where you can use Appium: so does not affect the possibility.
It may be tricky to parse amCharts for Appium just as it may be tricky to do so for XCUITest (that Appium use for iOS interactions). Since its Objective C wrapper chances are pretty good, but still you will be able to get only numbers and element position in best case.
I suggest to install appium-desktop, start session with your app and make screen snapshot. If appium won't parse it, you may try do it directly in XCode with XCUITest and maybe you need to add some attributes for parsing via Appium
Using the latest PhoneGap what is the best guidance someone could give as to adding the Bundle Version and Build Number overlaying a PhoneGap Splash screen. I see this on other apps but most likely those apps may not have been built with PhoneGap. From what I have read you could use a UIView controller to do this to the didFinishLaunchingWithOptions method. I am not an Objective C coder and native apps are new to me so any guidance as to where to start would be helpful. I am on El Capitan using xCode 7.1.1. Is there a tutorial of sorts to getting this done? Is it a lengthy integration? Thanks for the help!
I haven't implemented this but have thought about it a couple times... one way of getting a cross platform solution might be to stamp the bundle / app version or whatever other information you want dynamically added to the splash using ImageMagick, and the Cordova hooks system to run a script each build to do this. We have done similar with a script that sets the version numbers in config.xml for Jenkins builds, so that we can associate Jenkins output with test builds. I would imagine the same mechanism could be used with the Annotating capability of Image Magick to have a platform independent way of achieving this.