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Mobile Test Automation with Appium
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Mobile Test Automation with Appium

by Nishant Verma
June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
5h 38m
English
Packt Publishing
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Server capabilities

Testing will always be performed in a fixed context with respect to Appium server and that context will be set by desired capabilities. There are some mandatory desired capabilities and some are device OS-specific, such as Android or iOS. If you navigate to the HomePageSteps class file and the iLaunchQuikr() method, you will note the following mentioned lines:

capabilities.setCapability("platformName", "Android");capabilities.setCapability("platformVersion", "5.1");capabilities.setCapability("deviceName", "Nexus");

So, platformName, platformVersion, and deviceName are mandatory desired capabilities, which form the basis of mobile automation.

Here are some of the capabilities that are applicable for both iOS as well as ...

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