Set up Appium 2 to Run XCUITest (for iOS)
Setup and run an Appium 2 automated iOS test with XCUITestDriver
A repost of my daughter’s article with permission. I added a few notes. This is also included in the “Courtney’s Appium Series”.
Appium is a free, open-source and dominating test automation framework for desktop and mobile applications. Appium, like Selenium, is WebDriver-based.
“For all of our end-to-end tests at Facebook we use WebDriver, WebDriver is an open-source JSON wired protocol, I encourage you all check it out if you haven’t already. ” — Katie Coons, a software engineer at Product Stability, in “Continuous Integration at Facebook”
As this Facebook engineer said in the presentation, by using WebDriver-based automation framework, the automation test scripts for iOS, Android and Web, the APIs are very similar. This means big time-saving! It comes as no…