Practical Windows Desktop App Test Automation with Appium

Preface

1. Who should read this book
2. How to read this book
3. Send me feedback

Introduction

1. Test automation benefits
2. Test Automation success factors
3. Why traditional commercial testing tools all failed?
4. Choose a right automation framework
5. Appium + WindowsDriver is the solution, period
6. Synergy of web app and native app testing
7. Desktop App Automation is harder than Web’s
8. Challenges with Appium + WindowsDriver
9. Next action

First Appium Automation Script

1. Appium’s Client-Server Architecture
2. Set up the execution environment
3. Set up Appium Server v3 with WinCore Driver
4. Set up Appium Client
5. Appium set up on Windows ARM64
6. First Appium Desktop App Test
7. Control Inspector
8. Test Tools
9. Review

Test Syntax Framework

1. RSpec Framework
2. Transform automation scripts to test scripts
3. Run RSpec tests
4. Alternative test syntax frameworks

Find App Window

1. A closer look at the script
2. Launch UWP App by AppId
3. Launch Classic App by executable
4. Launch app with arguments
5. Attach an Appium session to an existing App Window

Appium Locators

1. How to identify UI elements in native apps?
2. Appium Inspector
3. Other tools for inspecting Windows Native Apps
4. Appium’s six locators
5. Chain find_element to find child elements
6. Guide on selecting locator?
7. Advice on performance
8. Find multiple elements
9. Review

Putting It All Together

1. Get App and Element Information
2. An End-To-End Notepad scenario
3. Stablize
4. Refine
5. Wrap-up

Keyboard and Mouse

1. Keyboard
2. Mouse
3. W3C Actions API

Assertions

1. Assert Window title
2. Assert Text in an Edit control
3. Assert a control’s attributes
4. Assert text present
5. Assert CheckBox is checked
6. Assert not …
7. Assert RadioButton is checked
8. Assert Disabled
9. Assert ComboBox option
10. Check equal of two elements

Review

1. Syntax errors
2. Waiting
3. Set up source control
4. GUI/Object map
5. Custom libraries
6. Debugging
7. What is the best learning method?
8. Wrap-up

Test Maintenance

1. Linear test steps are difficult to maintain
2. Maintainable automated test design
3. Don’t Repeat Yourself
4. Maintain with ease
5. Wrap-up

Improve Efficiency

1. Simple project structure
2. Test execution
3. Quick navigation
4. Fast Editing with Snippets
5. Script library
6. Test refactoring
7. Debug test scripts
8. Wrap-up

Functional Test Refactoring

1. Functional test refactoring
2. Tool support
3. Case study
4. Wrap-up

Test Data

1. Test data needs to be reusable
2. Generate Test Data on the fly
3. Retrieve data from Database
4. Reset data

Case Study: Test TestWise IDE

1. Launch App
2. Dismiss the Splash Screen
3. Launch TestWise cleanly
4. App Version
5. Custom execution with Environment Variables
6. Common UI elements
7. Launch App with Argument
8. Reusable Test Data
9. Open a specific test file
10. Test Automation Support in App
11. Context Click
12. Drag and drop
13. Verify a file moved
14. Wrap-up

Continuous Testing

1. CT Overview
2. Prerequisite
3. Continuous Testing Steps
4. Parallel Test Execution with Build Agents
5. Parallel Testing Lab
6. Ongoing maintenance
7. Test Stats or Reports

Appium in other languages

1. Appium with Python
2. Appium with C#
3. Wrap-up

Afterword

1. Practice makes perfect
2. Successful Test Automation

Appendix 1 - Appium v1 set up

1. Install and start Appium server v1
2. Enable Developer mode on Windows 10
3. Ruby Library for Appium v1 - appium_lib

Resources

1. Books
2. Web Sites
3. Tools
4. Blog

References