Visual studio setup to run appium tests in c#

In this post, you will see steps to download and setup visual studio, appium components to run appium tests using c# language.

Download

• Visual Studio
• Genymotion
• APK info – mobile app to get appPackage and appActivity

Appium components

nuGet packages

• Selenium WebDriver
• Appium
• Nunit
• Nunit3 test adapter

Code implementation

using NUnit.Framework;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium.Android;
using OpenQA.Selenium.Remote;
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;

namespace AppiumCTest
{
    public class TC1
    {
        AndroidDriver<AndroidElement> driver;
        DesiredCapabilities cap;
        [SetUp]
        public void InitDriver()
        {
            cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
            cap.SetCapability("platformName", "Android");
            cap.SetCapability("deviceName", "Google Pixel XL - 8.0 - API 26");
            cap.SetCapability("appPackage", "com.android.dialer");
            cap.SetCapability("appActivity", "DialtactsActivity");
            driver = new AndroidDriver<AndroidElement>(new Uri("http://127.0.01:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
        }

        [Test]
        public void Test1()
        {
            Assert.IsNotNull(driver);
            System.Threading.Thread.Sleep(2000);
        }

        [TearDown]
        public void closeDriver()
        {
            driver.Quit();
        }
    }
}

For detailed steps on how to download nuget packages in visual studio and run the appium test [nunit tests], watch here