Using Appium with Python : Introduction

In this series of blogs, I will discuss about the appium (test automation framework  for mobile apps). We will discuss about how you can
automate your android mobile apps and save your testing hours. I will cover appium with python client and for android only.

Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid and mobile web apps.It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol.

Here is the basic architecture of Appium , How it interact with Android / ios client.

System Installation

Requirements

On Windows Appium Installation :

Please install these basic requirements that are import run Python client in Appium.

1. PyCharm( python editor)
2. Appium.exe
3. Python 2.7 or 3.0 (Pip configured)
4. Python client Appium
5. Android SDK install latest(Added to Path).
6. Java – Added to Path(Optional)
7. Selenium module of python
8. unittest /nose module of python.

Make sure you set up environment variables correctly before executing any script. All these variables should be set under ‘System variables’ not in ‘User variables’.

• JAVA_HOME –

• C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25
• ANDROID_HOME –

• D:\Android_Development\android_sd
• PATH variable (this contain System32 , platform-tools , tools ,jdk bin set) –
  • C:\Windows\System32;D:\Android_Development\android_sdk\platform-tools;%JAVA_HOME%\bin;D:\Android_Development\android_sdk\tools;

Installing Selenium and Python Appium client.

Make sure you have pip install on windows(Check out my other post how you can do this).

Now you are ready to write your first Test case using python client in Appium. In the next blog We will write a basic test program that open a  App and Do certain task and close it after. Please comment down if you face any issue or need help.