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Mobile Application Testing Using Appium for Beginners | Mobile App Testing Tutorial | Edureka

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** Appium Online Training: https://www.edureka.co/appium-training-mobile-automation-testing ** This Edureka video on "Mobile App Testing for Beginners Using Appium" serves as an introduction to the fast-paced world of Mobile Application Testing. This video will give you an introduction to the concepts along with their importance from an industrial perspective. You will also get a sneak-peak into our next video - 'AppiumTutorial'. Below topics are covered in this video: 1:33 What is mobile application testing 2:34 Importance of mobile application testing 3:27 Approaches to mobile application testing 5:03 Advantages of automated testing 5:50 Native applications vs Hybrid applications 9:16 Key Challenges in mobile application testing 10:50 Demonstration Selenium playlist: https://goo.gl/NmuzXE Selenium Blog playlist: http://bit.ly/2B7C3QR Software Testing Blog playlist: http://bit.ly/2UXwdJm - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Subscribe to our channel to get video updates. Hit the subscribe button above: https://goo.gl/6ohpTV SlideShare: https://www.slideshare.net/edurekaIN Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/edureka_learning Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/edurekaIN/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/edurekain LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/edureka - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - #edureka #edurekasoftwaretesting #mobileapplicationtesting #mobileapptestingusingappium #softwaretestingtypes #selenium #automationtesting Please write back to us at sales@edureka.co or call us at IND: 9606058406 / US: 18338555775 (toll-free) for more information.

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'text': 'Snapchat for both iOS and Android.', 'start': 447.328, 'duration': 1.802}, {'end': 451.574, 'text': 'again, Spotify, Twitter and Pinterest.', 'start': 449.13, 'duration': 2.444}, {'end': 458.552, 'text': "Now, you'll definitely appreciate the exceptional performance delivered by the application on both the platforms.", 'start': 452.19, 'duration': 6.362}, {'end': 464.333, 'text': 'now moving on to hybrid apps, a hybrid app is, in a way, a compromise between a web and a native app development.', 'start': 458.552, 'duration': 5.781}], 'summary': 'Native apps like google maps, facebook, and snapchat perform exceptionally on both ios and android. hybrid apps are a compromise between web and native app development.', 'duration': 23.593, 'max_score': 440.74, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc440740.jpg'}, {'end': 561.883, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 535.613, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 543.637, 'text': "Netflix used to be a hybrid application until a very good time, and now it's a native application and also stuff like Yelp and untapped.", 'start': 535.613, 'duration': 8.024}, {'end': 547.558, 'text': 'untapped is a beer service which will help you find the best beers in town.', 'start': 543.637, 'duration': 3.921}, {'end': 549.079, 'text': "So that's a really nice app.", 'start': 547.898, 'duration': 1.181}, {'end': 555.721, 'text': 'So all these really cool apps like Amazon untapped Yelp and Evernote are all very good examples of hybrid apps.', 'start': 549.419, 'duration': 6.302}, {'end': 561.883, 'text': 'Now let us look at the key challenges that are faced by application testers in the mobile application testing world.', 'start': 556.321, 'duration': 5.562}], 'summary': 'Netflix and other apps transitioned to native, highlighting untapped as a beer-finding app. challenges in mobile app testing discussed.', 'duration': 26.27, 'max_score': 535.613, 'thumbnail': 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to built-in features, native UI/UX, and direct availability from app stores.', 'Advantages of native applications include access to built-in features, native UI/UX, and availability from app stores, as well as a specified software development kit for development purposes.', 'Disadvantages of native applications are high price and long development time.']}, {'end': 458.552, 'start': 425.321, 'title': 'Benefits of native apps', 'summary': 'Highlights the benefits of native apps, including exceptional user experience and performance, and mentions popular examples like google maps, facebook, snapchat, spotify, twitter, and pinterest, which are available for both ios and android.', 'duration': 33.231, 'highlights': ['Native apps deliver exceptional user experience and performance on both platforms, as seen in Google Maps, Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter, and Pinterest for iOS and Android.', 'Popular native apps like Google Maps, Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter, and Pinterest are perfect examples of exceptional user experience and performance delivered on both iOS and Android platforms.', 'The support and maintenance of multiple versions of applications is complicated and expensive, unlike native apps which are popular solutions nowadays and deliver exceptional user experience for solving complicated tasks.']}, {'end': 555.721, 'start': 458.552, 'title': 'Hybrid app development', 'summary': 'Discusses hybrid app development, which combines the advantages of web and native app development, highlighting its cross-platform nature, lower cost, wider audience reach, and notable examples like amazon, netflix, yelp, and untapped.', 'duration': 97.169, 'highlights': ['Hybrid apps offer cross-platform development, resulting in lower support, maintenance, and development costs, and wider audience reach, making them downloadable from the App Store.', 'Hybrid apps are distributed through the App Store or over the air for iOS devices, and they are reliant on the web view rather than the mobile browser, suitable for banks, news media, and content delivery platforms.', 'Examples of successful hybrid apps include Amazon, Netflix, Yelp, and untapped, showcasing the potential of hybrid development in creating popular and useful applications.', 'Hybrid apps have limitations such as limited performance scopes and the absence of the clean look of a native app, despite the advantages they offer.', 'Hybrid apps are technically web apps packaged in native app containers, written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and are not affected by ad blockers, making them suitable for various industries.']}], 'duration': 199.311, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc356410.jpg', 'highlights': ['Native applications offer high performance, access to built-in features, and native UI/UX, available from app stores.', 'Exceptional user experience and performance of native apps seen in Google Maps, Facebook, Snapchat, Spotify, Twitter, and Pinterest for iOS and Android.', 'Hybrid apps offer cross-platform development, lower costs, wider audience reach, and examples include Amazon, Netflix, Yelp, and untapped.']}, {'end': 922.729, 'segs': [{'end': 676.092, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 573.046, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 577.987, 'text': 'There are a bunch of screen sizes operating systems hardware options software versions, etc.', 'start': 573.046, 'duration': 4.941}, {'end': 582.492, 'text': 'As of 2017,, there are more than 60, 000 Android devices on the market,', 'start': 578.567, 'duration': 3.925}, {'end': 588.098, 'text': 'and some of them have even started adopting the whole notch fashion which is brought about by iPhone 10..', 'start': 582.492, 'duration': 5.606}, {'end': 592.322, 'text': 'Now, let me list down the major issues faced in mobile application testing.', 'start': 588.098, 'duration': 4.224}, {'end': 595.126, 'text': 'So the first key challenge is quick rollouts.', 'start': 592.643, 'duration': 2.483}, {'end': 596.964, 'text': 'Now mobile applications.', 'start': 595.763, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 602.987, 'text': "industry is one that acts upon bugs quickly, and they're always thinking about new features.", 'start': 596.964, 'duration': 6.023}, {'end': 608.79, 'text': 'the faster these get rolled out, the longer an application remains trending on its respective Marketplace.', 'start': 602.987, 'duration': 5.803}, {'end': 614.207, 'text': 'The second key challenge is the multi-platform compatibility apart from Android and iOS.', 'start': 609.665, 'duration': 4.542}, {'end': 618.249, 'text': 'There are a bunch of operating systems executed across a multitude of platforms.', 'start': 614.427, 'duration': 3.822}, {'end': 621.911, 'text': 'This only increases the time taken to test a certain application.', 'start': 618.649, 'duration': 3.262}, {'end': 627.073, 'text': 'thirdly, is that mobile applications should work on a bunch of connectivity modes.', 'start': 621.911, 'duration': 5.162}, {'end': 629.695, 'text': 'mobile phones are subjected to different modes of connectivity.', 'start': 627.073, 'duration': 2.622}, {'end': 632.856, 'text': 'For example roaming 4g 3g Edge Etc.', 'start': 629.895, 'duration': 2.961}, {'end': 638.739, 'text': "Now applications must be tested in all these various connectivity modes and to see if they're working efficiently.", 'start': 633.156, 'duration': 5.583}, {'end': 641.467, 'text': 'The fourth point is end-to-end testing.', 'start': 639.286, 'duration': 2.181}, {'end': 651.491, 'text': 'the mobile phone industry demands that applications integrate seamlessly and be able to access data from the back end to be produced on the front end without any problems due to the diverse nature of mobile phones.', 'start': 641.467, 'duration': 10.024}, {'end': 656.073, 'text': 'This becomes a Herculean task last but not the least is the availability of tools.', 'start': 651.591, 'duration': 4.482}, {'end': 659.154, 'text': 'Now. there are a number of tools today that automate mobile applications.', 'start': 656.293, 'duration': 2.861}, {'end': 665.821, 'text': 'Choosing the right one for your application is essential to the success and the efficient testing of the application.', 'start': 659.654, 'duration': 6.167}, {'end': 671.787, 'text': 'Okay guys, so this brings us to the theoretical end of this introductory session on mobile application testing.', 'start': 666.161, 'duration': 5.626}, {'end': 676.092, 'text': 'Now as you guys know none of the Edureka videos are ever without a demonstration.', 'start': 672.308, 'duration': 3.784}], 'summary': 'Over 60,000 android devices in 2017 face challenges like quick rollouts, multi-platform compatibility, connectivity modes, end-to-end testing, and tool availability in mobile application testing.', 'duration': 103.046, 'max_score': 573.046, 'thumbnail': 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and you can just search for the calculator out there and download it.', 'start': 722.724, 'duration': 5.321}, {'end': 729.145, 'text': "It's a 2 MB APK.", 'start': 728.145, 'duration': 1}, {'end': 733.288, 'text': 'Now what you want to do first is we want to install this APK.', 'start': 729.805, 'duration': 3.483}, {'end': 738.533, 'text': 'So the question arises, where do we install it? Well, you can install it on your local device.', 'start': 733.609, 'duration': 4.924}, {'end': 744.158, 'text': "But if you don't really have an Android phone, then what you can do is start up an emulator.", 'start': 738.933, 'duration': 5.225}, {'end': 748.802, 'text': 'Now, I have a Nexus 6 emulator that I have set up through Android studio.', 'start': 744.398, 'duration': 4.404}, {'end': 755.146, 'text': 'So Android studio is going to be the primary medium of writing our apps and writing our test cases.', 'start': 749.182, 'duration': 5.964}, {'end': 761.491, 'text': 'So I highly recommend that you go ahead and install that on your device or your system.', 'start': 755.226, 'duration': 6.265}, {'end': 767.035, 'text': 'So what you see out here is an emulated device that looks like a Nexus 6.', 'start': 761.971, 'duration': 5.064}, {'end': 769.997, 'text': 'Next what we want to do is also install ADB.', 'start': 767.035, 'duration': 2.962}, {'end': 775.14, 'text': 'So to install ADB you have to go on Google and just type in ADB.', 'start': 770.357, 'duration': 4.783}, {'end': 781.857, 'text': 'So if you type ADB out here, You can follow these download links and install them now.', 'start': 775.621, 'duration': 6.236}, {'end': 787.341, 'text': 'ADB is used for checking our Android devices and installing apps.', 'start': 781.857, 'duration': 5.484}, {'end': 792.165, 'text': 'now, as you guys can see, I have already installed the APK on my device.', 'start': 787.341, 'duration': 4.824}], 'summary': 'Installed appium, drivers, and apk on nexus 6 emulator for android app testing.', 'duration': 88.208, 'max_score': 699.133, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc699133.jpg'}, {'end': 851.724, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 812.097, 'weight': 6, 'content': [{'end': 821.422, 'text': 'Now, I will always recommend that you use a local device because the emulator that comes along with Android Studio is not up to the mark.', 'start': 812.097, 'duration': 9.325}, {'end': 828.546, 'text': 'It kind of takes a lot of time to install stuff and it generally takes up a lot of time that could be used in testing.', 'start': 822.123, 'duration': 6.423}, {'end': 832.883, 'text': 'Okay, so as you guys can see our calculator has been installed out here.', 'start': 829.278, 'duration': 3.605}, {'end': 837.689, 'text': 'So what we want to do is now you want to go ahead and start up Appium.', 'start': 833.323, 'duration': 4.366}, {'end': 842.215, 'text': 'Now I have installed Appium from the Appium official site.', 'start': 837.909, 'duration': 4.306}, {'end': 845.86, 'text': 'that can be easily found out by going Appium and going to Appium.io.', 'start': 842.215, 'duration': 3.645}, {'end': 851.724, 'text': 'So out here you can see that you see this download button, which is the Appium desktop version.', 'start': 847.041, 'duration': 4.683}], 'summary': 'Using a local device is recommended for testing as the android studio emulator is time-consuming and not efficient. appium can be easily installed from the official site.', 'duration': 39.627, 'max_score': 812.097, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc812097.jpg'}, {'end': 903.983, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 871.011, 'weight': 10, 'content': [{'end': 875.613, 'text': 'It is a server for testing purposes and it is not much more than that.', 'start': 871.011, 'duration': 4.602}, {'end': 880.254, 'text': 'You will need a bunch of things other than Appium to actually test your applications.', 'start': 875.693, 'duration': 4.561}, {'end': 884.356, 'text': 'now, just to give you guys a sneak peek into how applications are tested using Appium.', 'start': 880.254, 'duration': 4.102}, {'end': 886.577, 'text': 'This is going to be the general process every time.', 'start': 884.636, 'duration': 1.941}, {'end': 888.577, 'text': 'So what do you want to do is start your server now?', 'start': 886.697, 'duration': 1.88}, {'end': 895.38, 'text': 'after you have started the server, you want to go ahead and press this search icon, which says start inspector session.', 'start': 888.577, 'duration': 6.803}, {'end': 903.983, 'text': 'Now the inspector session is where you generate your test script that you can run on various devices now to generate your test script.', 'start': 895.9, 'duration': 8.083}], 'summary': 'Appium server for testing, requires additional tools, start inspector session to generate test scripts.', 'duration': 32.972, 'max_score': 871.011, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc871011.jpg'}, {'end': 912.005, 'src': 'heatmap', 'start': 888.577, 'weight': 0.707, 'content': [{'end': 895.38, 'text': 'after you have started the server, you want to go ahead and press this search icon, which says start inspector session.', 'start': 888.577, 'duration': 6.803}, {'end': 903.983, 'text': 'Now the inspector session is where you generate your test script that you can run on various devices now to generate your test script.', 'start': 895.9, 'duration': 8.083}, {'end': 907.024, 'text': 'We will be first setting up our desired capabilities.', 'start': 904.303, 'duration': 2.721}, {'end': 912.005, 'text': 'I will explain what desired capabilities are in our next video, which is going to be Appium tutorial,', 'start': 907.544, 'duration': 4.461}], 'summary': 'Start server, generate test script, set up desired capabilities for appium tutorial.', 'duration': 23.428, 'max_score': 888.577, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc888577.jpg'}], 'start': 556.321, 'title': 'Mobile app testing challenges and setup', 'summary': 'Discusses challenges in mobile app testing, including diversity of devices, quick rollouts, multi-platform compatibility, connectivity modes, and tools, also outlining setting up android studio, 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executed across different platforms.', 'Mobile applications need to be tested across various connectivity modes such as roaming, 4G, 3G, and Edge to ensure efficient functionality in different network environments.', 'End-to-end testing is essential in the mobile phone industry to ensure seamless integration and data access from the back end to the front end without any issues.', 'The availability of tools for automating mobile applications is crucial for efficient testing and successful application development.']}, {'end': 922.729, 'start': 694.429, 'title': 'Setting up android studio, appium, and adb', 'summary': 'Outlines the process of setting up android studio, appium, and adb, including installing necessary drivers and applications, such as the calculator app, and emphasizes the importance of using a local device for testing.', 'duration': 228.3, 'highlights': ['The process involves installing Android Studio, Appium, and ADB, along with necessary drivers and applications such as 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Studio on the device or system for app and test case development.', 'Installation and use of ADB for checking Android devices and installing apps, including a demonstration of installing an APK on the device using ADB.', 'Instructions for downloading and installing Appium from the official site, with a preference for using the desktop version for testing applications.', 'Overview of the testing process using Appium, including starting the server and setting up desired capabilities for generating test scripts.']}, {'end': 1259.96, 'segs': [{'end': 973.858, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 943.18, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 947.403, 'text': 'So go ahead at the end of this put a slash and put in calculator.apk.', 'start': 943.18, 'duration': 4.223}, {'end': 949.344, 'text': 'So that serves as the app path.', 'start': 947.483, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 953.306, 'text': 'So as you guys can see it generates a JSON representation out here.', 'start': 949.864, 'duration': 3.442}, {'end': 959.049, 'text': "So it's basically mapping key value pairs and sending them to the server to react upon now.", 'start': 953.586, 'duration': 5.463}, {'end': 961.111, 'text': 'We need a couple more desired capabilities.', 'start': 959.069, 'duration': 2.042}, {'end': 962.592, 'text': 'One of them is device name.', 'start': 961.391, 'duration': 1.201}, {'end': 968.335, 'text': 'So for device name you can go into your command prompt again and you can go ADB devices.', 'start': 963.052, 'duration': 5.283}, {'end': 973.858, 'text': 'and this will show you the list of devices when comes to Android that is connected to your computer at this moment.', 'start': 968.775, 'duration': 5.083}], 'summary': 'The app path is calculator.apk, it generates a json representation, and lists connected android devices.', 'duration': 30.678, 'max_score': 943.18, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc943180.jpg'}, {'end': 1087.463, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1026.212, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 1032.718, 'text': 'Now, I always recommend that you use a local device because of this reason, because emulators take a long long time,', 'start': 1026.212, 'duration': 6.506}, {'end': 1034.479, 'text': 'especially the Android Studio emulator.', 'start': 1032.718, 'duration': 1.761}, {'end': 1041.085, 'text': 'And this being an i3 device with only about eight gigs of RAM, this is going to be a slow process for most of us.', 'start': 1035.04, 'duration': 6.045}, {'end': 1049.612, 'text': 'I normally recommend around 16 gigs of RAM an i5 device with at least 16 gigs of RAM for any sort of heavy testing procedure that you might want to follow.', 'start': 1041.464, 'duration': 8.148}, {'end': 1053.956, 'text': 'If we go ahead and go on our calculator out here.', 'start': 1050.553, 'duration': 3.403}, {'end': 1060.684, 'text': 'Okay, so our server has started up after a long period of waiting,', 'start': 1055.658, 'duration': 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1201.474, 'text': "You can choose a language here Java Python Ruby and there's also the robot framework.", 'start': 1197.151, 'duration': 4.323}, {'end': 1203.756, 'text': 'So that was it for today.', 'start': 1201.895, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 1209.862, 'text': 'I showed you guys how to set up an application on an emulator out here with the help of ADB.', 'start': 1204.197, 'duration': 5.665}], 'summary': 'Generate test scripts in multiple languages and set up an application on an emulator using adb.', 'duration': 30.611, 'max_score': 1179.251, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/p17bmM-nwkc/pics/p17bmM-nwkc1179251.jpg'}], 'start': 923.469, 'title': 'Appium testing setup and execution', 'summary': 'Covers setting up app path, device name, and platform for testing using appium, along with emulator testing process, including element selection, test script recording, and language options.', 'chapters': [{'end': 1066.37, 'start': 923.469, 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