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Appium Essentials
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Appium Essentials

by Manoj Hans
April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
188 pages
3h 39m
English
Packt Publishing
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The Selenium JSON wire protocol

The JSON wire protocol (JSONWP) is a transport mechanism created by WebDriver developers. This wire protocol is a specific set of predefined, standardized endpoints exposed via a RESTful API. The purpose of WebDriver and JSONWP is the automated testing of websites via a browser such as Firefox driver, IE driver, and Chrome driver.

Appium implements the Mobile JSONWP, the extension to the Selenium JSONWP, and it controls the different mobile device behaviors, such as installing/uninstalling apps over the session.

Let's have a look at some of the endpoints from the API which are used to interact with mobile applications:

  • /session/:sessionId
  • /session/:sessionId/element
  • /session/:sessionId/elements
  • /session/:sessionId/element/:id/click ...
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