WebdriverIO is an advanced automation framework for web and mobile application. It’s basically a wrapper on top of selenium (WebDriver protocol with nodeJS) for web automation and wrapper on top of appium for mobile application. As per the appium client, Appium suggests to use webdriverio for appium with javascript/typescript instead of deprecated appium javascript client…
Starting from appium 2.x, appium decoupled appium drivers from it’s base installation. Now users need to install appium drivers individually as per the need basis. Install appium 2 – To install the appium 2 globally on your machine – npm install -g appium If you are using mac, then you can run using sudo command…
To setup ios simulator for Appium, you need to have MacOS system and xcode. Download xcode Download from here xcode will have all the iPhone models as simulators along with iPads. You can download / install specific iOS versions from the Xcode > Preferences When you open the xcode, this will prompt to install necessary…
With the introduction of appium server 2.x, we have to run the appium server either by code or as CLI command, we can’t use the appium desktop which in turn provides the appium inspector. To overcome above issue, appium provided separate appium inspector tool. There are 2 ways to get the appium inspector tool Web…
Appium team has migrated the appium server to 2.x (currently in beta) which involves lot’s of changes in terms of usage but not impacting any of the automation behaviour. Highlights of appium changes – Install the latest appium server you can use below npm command (there is no GUI as we have for 1.x) sudo…