Appium: Automation for Apps
summary
Appium is an open source, cross‑platform WebDriver implementation that runs real UI tests on Android and iOS devices and emulators and plugs into cloud farms. It speaks the JSON wire protocol, supports multiple backends like XCUITest and UIAutomator backends, and exposes session capabilities such as autoWebview, compressed Android DOM and network conditioning. The project has ~5,000 GitHub stars, ~40,000 weekly npm downloads and ~200 contributors, offers an Electron inspector and desktop drivers via WinAppDriver and Mac driver for true end‑to‑end automation.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Introduction to Appium
- 1:46History of Appium
- 5:37What is Appium
- 9:11Appium philosophy
- 13:04Basic Appium setup
- 19:41Advanced Appium features
- 26:50Automating SMS and notifications
- 28:16Optimizing iOS simulator
- 29:01Advanced capabilities
- 33:12New Appium GUI
- 36:25Desktop app automation
- 37:48Windows app automation
- 39:18Mac app automation
- 43:29Cloud providers for testing
- 44:57Appium for multiple devices
- 47:05Robots and Appium
- 50:34Q&A session
