{"id":69547,"date":"2019-12-30T16:40:38","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T11:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/?p=69547"},"modified":"2024-04-12T14:21:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T08:51:52","slug":"automating-mobile-web-apps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/automating-mobile-web-apps\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Web Automation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/mobile-testing-appium-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go back to tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n<h1><strong>Learning Mobile Web Automation<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Appium can be a great source of help, in case you are looking for Mobile web Automation. Further, in Appium can be a great source in case you want to automate your web app in Mobile Safari on iOS or Chrome on Android. For this purpose, you write a normal WebDriver test, and thereby use Appium as the Selenium server with a special set of desired capabilities.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.mazarin.lk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/a111.png\" alt=\"Mobile web automation using Appium\" width=\"947\" height=\"583\"><\/p>\n<h3><strong>iOS Mobile Automation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Appium can automate the Safari browser on real and simulated iOS devices. Further, it is accessed by setting the browserName desired capabilty to &#8220;Safari&#8221; while leaving the app capability empty.&nbsp;Therefore, you must run Safari on the device before attempting to use Appium, in order to set the correct preferences .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Desired capabilities to run your test in mobile Safari (In Java)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, &#8220;iOS&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, &#8220;11.0&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, &#8220;Safari&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, &#8220;iPhone 8&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Prerequisites to run your tests against Safari on a real device&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firstly, you should have the ios-webkit-debug-proxy installed, running and listening on port 27753<\/li>\n<li>Secondly, turn on web inspector on iOS device (settings &gt; safari &gt; advanced)<\/li>\n<li>Lastly, make sure that SafariLauncher will work<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to run your test?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to run your test, it is very important to configure you test to run against safari simply set the &#8220;browserName&#8221; to be &#8220;Safari&#8221;, in Java<\/p>\n<p>\/\/setup the web driver and launch the webview app.<\/p>\n<p>DesiredCapabilities desiredCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();<\/p>\n<p>desiredCapabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, &#8220;Safari&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>URL url = new URL(&#8220;http:\/\/127.0.0.1:4723\/wd\/hub&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>AppiumDriver driver = new AppiumDriver(url, desiredCapabilities);<\/p>\n<p>\/\/ Navigate to the page and interact with the elements on the guinea-pig page using id.<\/p>\n<p>driver.get(&#8220;http:\/\/saucelabs.com\/test\/guinea-pig&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>WebElement div = driver.findElement(By.id(&#8220;i_am_an_id&#8221;));<\/p>\n<p>Assert.assertEquals(&#8220;I am a div&#8221;, div.getText()); \/\/check the text retrieved matches expected value<\/p>\n<p>driver.findElement(By.id(&#8220;comments&#8221;)).sendKeys(&#8220;My comment&#8221;); \/\/populate the comments field by id.<\/p>\n<p>\/\/close the app.<\/p>\n<p>driver.quit();<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Android Mobile Automation<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Appium supports automating the Chrome browser both real and emulated Android devices. Some of the&nbsp;prerequisites include,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To make sure Chrome is installed on your device or emulator.<\/li>\n<li>Also, Chromedriver needs to be installed (a default version comes with Appium) and configured for automating the specific version of Chrome available on the device.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Desired capabilties like these to run your test in Chrome&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DesiredCapabilities capabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_NAME, &#8220;Android&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.PLATFORM_VERSION, &#8220;4.4&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.DEVICE_NAME, &#8220;Android Emulator&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>capabilities.setCapability(MobileCapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, &#8220;Chrome&#8221;);<\/p>\n<p>Note that on 4.4+ devices, you can also use the &#8216;Browser&#8217; browserName cap to automate the built-in browser. On all devices you can use the &#8216;Chromium&#8217; browserName cap to automate a build of Chromium which you have installed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to troubleshoot Chromedriver?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With reference to the Chrome version 33, a rooted device is no longer required. If running tests on older versions of Chrome, devices needed to be rooted as Chromedriver required write access to the \/data\/local directory to set Chrome&#8217;s command line arguments. But, in case&nbsp;you are testing on Chrome app prior to version 33, then you must ensure that adb shell has read\/write access to \/data\/local directory on the device.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Enrich your profile and become Job Ready. Practice and Prepare for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/testing\/mobile-testing-appium-professional\">Mobile Testing (Appium) Exam<\/a>&nbsp;Now!<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Get expert advice and hundreds of Free Test \u2013 Try&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/practice\/index.php?route=test\/search&amp;search=appium\">Mobile Testing (Appium) Practice Questions<\/a>&nbsp;Now!<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vskills.in\/certification\/tutorial\/mobile-testing-appium-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Go back to tutorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go back to tutorial Learning Mobile Web Automation Appium can be a great source of help, in case you are looking for Mobile web Automation. Further, in Appium can be a great source in case you want to automate your web app in Mobile Safari on iOS or Chrome on Android. 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