Automated Testing using Appium on Kobiton

I. Setup environment on Mac

Homebrew

• Homebrew is a package manager for the Mac.
• To install Homebrew, open terminal and type the following command:

ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

• This will install Homebrew on your Mac. To check the version type the following command:

brew -v

Node and npm

• Install Node via Homebrew, type the following command to install Node.

brew install node

• Check if you have Node.js and npm installed, run this command in your terminal:

node -v
npm -v

• Update your npm to latest, type this into your terminal:

npm install npm@latest -g

II. Install the samples

• Clone this script directly from our GitHub repo and install dependencies:

mkdir kobiton-samples
cd kobiton-samples
git clone [email protected]:kobiton/samples.git .
cd ./javascript
npm install

III. Getting started with Kobiton

• Go to Kobiton Devices page.

• Hover over the device you want to test and select Show automation settings.

• Select Language = NodeJS.

• Replace username & apiKey in the sample script

const username = ''
const apiKey = ''

• Replace the desiredCaps to indicate your exptected testing device.

const desiredCaps = {
  sessionName:        'Automation test session',
  sessionDescription: 'This is an example for Android web',
  deviceOrientation:  'portrait',
  captureScreenshots: true,
  browserName:        'chrome',
  deviceGroup:        'KOBITON',
  deviceName:         '*',
  platformName:       'Android'
}

V. Execute the Sample Tests

Once you have everything set up, you can run the example test simply by running one of the following command:

npm run android-web-test
npm run android-app-test
npm run ios-web-test
npm run ios-app-test
npm run multiple-devices-test
npm run jasmine-android-web-test
npm run jasmine-android-app-test