Mobile Test Automation with Appium

Mobile application testing made easy

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited

By: Nishant Verma

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|Sep 2025

E-Book €25.99Institutions €125.95

Comprehensive guide to build mobile test automation solution using Appium

Key Features

How to automate testing with Appium
Apply techniques for creating comprehensive tests
How to test on physical devices or emulators

Book Description

Appium is an open source test automation framework for mobile applications. It allows you to test all three types of mobile applications: native, hybrid, and mobile web. It allows you to run the automated tests on actual devices, emulators, and simulators. Today, when every mobile app is made on at least two platforms, iOS and Android, you need a tool that allows you to test across platforms.

Having two different frameworks for the same app increases the cost of the product and time to maintain it as well. Appium helps save this cost.

With mobile app growth exploding, mobile app automation is mainstream now. In this book, author Nishant Verma provides you with a firm grounding in the concepts of Appium while diving into how to set up appium & Cucumber-jvm test automation framework, implement page object design pattern, automate gestures, test execution on emulators and physical devices, and implement continuous integration with Jenkins. The mobile app we have referenced in this book is Quikr because of its relatively lower learning curve to understand the application. It's a local classifieds shopping app.

What you will learn

Discover Appium and how to set up an automation framework for mobile testing
Understand desired capabilities and learn to find element locators
Learn to automate gestures and synchronize tests using Appium
Take an incremental approach to implement page object pattern
Learn to run Appium tests on emulators or physical devices
Set up Jenkins to run mobile automation tests by easy to learn steps
Discover tips and tricks to record video of test execution, inter app automation concepts
Learn to run Appium tests in parallel on multiple devices simultaneously

Who this book is for

Are you a mobile developer or a software tester who wishes to use Appium for your test automation? If so, then this is the right book for you .You must have basic Java programming knowledge. You don’t need to have prior knowledge of Appium.

Introduction to Appium
Machine Set-up
Writing your first Appium Test
Understanding Desired Capabilities
Understanding Appium Inspector to Find Locators
How to Synchronize Tests
How to Automate Gestures
Design patterns in test automation
How to run Appium test on devices and emulators
Continuous Integration with Jenkins
Appium Tips and Tricks
Appium Desktop App
Appendix

https://github.com/packtpublishing/mobile-test-automation-with-appium

PDF ISBN: 978-1-78728-818-8

Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited

Publication date: 2025

Language: English

Pages: 256

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