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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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XCUITest

XCUITest is an automation framework introduced by Apple with the iOS 9.3 version. However, from iOS 10 and later versions, it's the only supported automation framework.

Appium 1.6.0 uses Apple's new XCUITest framework, which supports iOS 10/Xcode 8. Appium internally uses Facebook's WebDriverAgent project to support XCUITest. For the older iOS version (<=9.3), Appium uses Apple's UIAutomation library. Typical usage would be to pass the following in desired capabilities:

automationName: XCUITest

Facebook WebDriverAgent is a WebDriver server implementation for iOS. It is used to remote control connected devices or simulators and allows one to launch an app, perform commands (such as tap and scroll), and kill applications.

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