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. Individual appium driver installation – Appium decoupled all the drivers and have to install them individually on a need basis. Example – Run below command for IOS driver i.e –…
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 – Decoupled individual appium drivers Introducing appium plugin Support w3c protocol standard Changes to appium capabilities Appium inspector separated from appium desktop…
In our previous post, we have seen global waits and timeouts applicable for Page, script or test wise. WebdriverIO provides some more wait methods applicable to individual elements based on specific conditions and they are as follows – waitForClickable waitForExist waitForEnabled waitForDisplayed Note – all these above methods are applicable for the element level not…
We often get confused when fetching text or value entered from a textBox on HTML DOM. in this post we will see how we can get the text entered from textBox and then we will understand getText() vs getAttribute(“value”). How to fetch text from textBox For this we will consider the Full Name textbox from…
Cypress made some visible changes to project structure when you migrate the cypress version to v10. In this post, we will see step by step guide to migrate to v10 and understand the folder structure. Open your existing project in VScode. Open command prompt / terminal (CTRL + `) Type below command to upgrade cypress…
There might be a situation where our script fails or taking long time if the application doesn’t load properly. Other factors could be application response, network speed or the layers that webdriverIO uses to send requests which causes out of sync between script run and application actions. Example – Test is looking for welcome screen…