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3. Automating Different Apps

Shankar Garg1 

(1)Gurgoan, Haryana, India

In this chapter, you will learn to Automate:

  • Native apps

  • Mobile web apps

  • Hybrid apps

  • Real devices

In previous chapters, you learned how to set up Appium and how to find an element’s properties, to be used in test cases. Now you know enough to start automating apps using Appium.

This chapter will cover different types of apps such as native, mobile web, and hybrid. First you will learn how to run test cases on emulators/simulators, and later you will learn to run them on real devices.

3-1. Native Apps

Problem

Native apps are perhaps the biggest reason why smartphones are so popular. Also, the majority of organizations ...

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