Appium Demo with React Native Demo App for iOS

This is a simple demo app built with React Native. For details, please refer to this tutorial:

http://www.appcoda.com/react-native-introduction

Prerequisites

• Appium Server
• Appium Client

iOS

• Mac OS X 10.10 or higher, 10.11.1 recommended
• XCode >= 6.0, 7.1.1 recommended
• Apple Developer Tools

Android

• Android SDK API >= 17
• Appium supports Android on OS X, Linux and Windows. Make sure you follow the directions for setting up your environment properly for testing on different OSes:
  • linux
  • osx
  • windows

Refer documentation for detail: http://appium.io/getting-started.html?lang=en

Installation

Appium Server

Download appium app from http://appium.io/.

OR

Install Appium server either with following command:

$ npm install -g appium

Appium Client

We will use javascript client wd

Other than appium client, we would need following packages for testing

• mocha: test framework
• chai: assertions library
• chai-as-promised: promise library

All packages required for testing has been defined in package.json file.

$ npm install

Execute Test

Update App Path in Test Case

Compile Code in XCode to build app. Then, access it by right clicking app in XCode & selecting Show in Finder

OR

Use app file provided in Execuatable folder.

Update path of app in driver constructor call in before() of AppiumTest/TestMain.js file.

It should always be absolute path to app on appium server.

Start Appium Server

$ appium -a 127.0.0.1 -p 4723

This will start appium server at ip - 127.0.0.1:4723

Run Appium Client

npm test

test is defined in package.json.

Hopefully, your test case is running smoothly.