Python With Appium

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Appium is a tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. It supports iOS native apps written in Objective-C or Swift and Android native apps written in Java or Kotlin. It also supports mobile web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Perform Appium automation tests on LambdaTest's online cloud.

Learn the basics of Appium testing on the LambdaTest platform.

Table of Contents

• Pre-requisites
• Run Your First Test
• Executing The Tests

Pre-requisites

Before you can start performing App automation testing with Appium, you would need to follow these steps:

• Install the latest Python build from the official website. We recommend using the latest version.
• Make sure pip is installed in your system. You can install pip from here.

Clone The Sample Project

Clone the LambdaTest’s LT-appium-python and navigate to the code directory as shown below:

git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/LT-appium-python
cd LT-appium-python

Install the required dependencies by using the following command:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Setting Up Your Authentication

Make sure you have your LambdaTest credentials with you to run test automation scripts on LambdaTest. To obtain your access credentials, purchase a plan or access the Automation Dashboard.

Set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables.

For Linux/macOS:

export LT_USERNAME=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME \
export LT_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY

For Windows:

set LT_USERNAME=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME `
set LT_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY

Upload Your Application

Step-3: Upload your iOS application (.ipa file) or android application (.apk file) to the LambdaTest servers using our REST API. You need to provide your Username and AccessKey in the format Username:AccessKey in the cURL command for authentication. Make sure to add the path of the appFile in the cURL request. Here is an example cURL request to upload your app using our REST API:

Using App File:

Linux/macOS:

curl -u "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" \
--location --request POST 'https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice' \
--form 'name="Android_App"' \
--form 'appFile=@"/Users/macuser/Downloads/proverbial_android.apk"'

Windows:

curl -u "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -F "appFile=@"/Users/macuser/Downloads/proverbial_android.apk""

Using App URL:

Linux/macOS:

curl -u "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" \
--location --request POST 'https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice' \
--form 'name="Android_App"' \
--form 'url="https://prod-mobile-artefacts.lambdatest.com/assets/docs/proverbial_android.apk"'

For Windows:

curl -u "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -d "{"url":"https://prod-mobile-artefacts.lambdatest.com/assets/docs/proverbial_android.apk","name":"sample.apk"}"

Tip:

• If you do not have any .apk or .ipa file, you can run your sample tests on LambdaTest by using our sample 🔗 Android app or sample 🔗 iOS app.
• Response of above cURL will be a JSON object containing the App URL of the format - lt://APP123456789123456789 and will be used in the next step.

Run Your First Test

Once you are done with the above-mentioned steps, you can initiate your first Python test on LambdaTest.

Test Scenario: Check out Android.py file to view the sample test script for android and iOS.py for iOS.

Configuring Your Test Capabilities

You can update your custom capabilities in test scripts. In this sample project, we are passing platform name, platform version, device name and app url (generated earlier) along with other capabilities like build name and test name via capabilities object. The capabilities object in the sample code are defined as:

iOS:

 desired_caps = {
    "deviceName":"iPhone 12",
    "platformName":"ios",
    "platformVersion":"14",
    "isRealMobile":True,
    "app":"YOUR_APP_URL",
    "build":"Python Vanilla iOS",
    "name":"Sample Test - Python",
    "network":True,
    "visual":True,
    "video":True
}

Android:

desired_caps = {
    "deviceName":"Galaxy S20",
    "platformName":"Android",
    "platformVersion":"10",
    "app":"YOUR_APP_URL",
    "isRealMobile":True,
    "build":"Python Vanilla Android",
    "name":"Sample Test - Python",
    "network":True,
    "visual":True,
    "video":True
}

Info Note:

• You must add the generated APP_URL to the "app" capability in the config file.
• You can generate capabilities for your test requirements with the help of our inbuilt Capabilities Generator tool. A more Detailed Capability Guide is available here.

Executing The Tests

Run the following command in the directory where your project has been saved to execute your build.

Android:

python3 android.py

IOS:

python3 ios.py

Info Note: If you are unable to run the automation script with the above mentioned commands try 'python' command except for 'python3'.

Your test results would be displayed on the test console (or command-line interface if you are using terminal/cmd) and on the LambdaTest App Automation Dashboard.

If you fail to run the tests, try creating virtual env and installing the dependencies in that environment to run the tests. Creating and activating a virtual environment

pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Additional Links

• Advanced Configuration for Capabilities
• How to test locally hosted apps
• How to integrate LambdaTest with CI/CD

Documentation & Resources 📚

Visit the following links to learn more about LambdaTest's features, setup and tutorials around test automation, mobile app testing, responsive testing, and manual testing.

• LambdaTest Documentation
• LambdaTest Blog
• LambdaTest Learning Hub

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