Set up Appium 2 to Run XCUITest (for iOS)
Setup and run an Appium 2 automated iOS test with XCUITestDriver
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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 surprise, Microsoft dumped its own Coded UI Test tool and recommended Appium and Selenium too.
Appium version 2 is coming out soon and is already in Beta, the latest version 2.0.0.beta 46.
This tutorial will show you how to set up Appium v2 on a macOS computer to run XCUITests on a sample iOS app.
Zhimin’s notes: Many software professionals heard of Appium, a small percentage tried Appium but failed. The reasons are the similar to Web Test Automation failures. Doing a hello-world demo (like this article) is not hard, but to develop and maintain a reasonable-sized test suite as regression testing (run multiple times a day) is far more challenging. There are many other factors to consider, such as:
- Maintainable Automated Test Design
- High…
