Appium introduction and environment installation

appium frame ：

 

appium Ecological tools

adb：Android Of debug Control tools , Used to get android All kinds of data and control

appium desktop： It's embedded qppium server and inspector Integrated tools for

appium server：appium Core tools of 、 Command line tools , by appium client Establish communication mechanism with mobile phones

appium client： Client encapsulation libraries for various languages , Used to connect to appium server, Support python、Java、ruby、robotframework-appium

appcrawler： Automatic traversal tool

 

appium Environmental installation -windows Environmental Science

Environment installation tools

Java 1.8 edition

android sdk

node js（ Recommendation is greater than 10 edition ）,npm（ Greater than 6 edition , install nodejs I'll bring it later npm The tool ）,npm Is a package management tool , Can pass npm To install appium server（ My environment is direct installation appium desktop, Contains appium server, All not installed node js and npm）

python3： Use python Language writing , So you need to install python3 Environmental Science

appium desktop： For beginners , You can use this tool to complete script recording

appium python client： Use the client to complete the script writing

The above tools are all around appium From the three parts of , One client , One server End , A mobile terminal

To support the mobile terminal , Need to install jdk、android sdk

The client needs to be installed appium client

server The end needs to be installed node js and appium server Or is it appium desktop

 

Environmental installation steps -windows Environmental Science

1、 install JDK（1.8 edition ）

Download from the domestic image source website jdk 1.8, And install ：https://repo.huaweicloud.com/java/jdk/

Configure environment variables ：

JAVA_HOME   C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_171    Pay attention to write yourself here java Installation path for

classpath   .;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\dt.jar;%JAVA_HOME%\lib\tools.jar    Notice that you put a dot and a semicolon at the beginning

path   %JAVA_HOME%\bin;%JAVA_HOME%\jre\bin    path Add these two paths

Check java Is the environment well configured ：

Go to the command line , Input java -version perhaps javac -version, The output of version number information is successful

2、 install Android SDK

1、 Download from the download address Android sdk：http://tools.android-studio.org/index.php/sdk

download Windows edition zip Package file sdk package , Download succeeded and unzip , open SDK  Readme file , Then execute the command in the extracted path ：tools\android.bat update sdk --no-ui, To update this sdk package , When asked whether to install, enter y.

install sdk, Actually sdk It's just a folder , After downloading, you need to update manually , With environment variables, you can use , No manual installation is required

The updated folder is placed in a stable path , And configure the environment variables , Generally not changed

Be careful ： Some tools may fail to download when updating the package , It may have something to do with the Internet , You can try to run the above update command multiple times to solve the problem , Or buy an agent directly to solve the problem of network update

2、 Configure after successful installation android sdk environment variable ：

ANDROID_HOME   D:\android-sdk-windows      Configure according to the actual path of your environment

PATH  %ANDROID_HOME%\tools;%ANDROID_HOME%\platform-tools

3、 Check if the installation is successful , stay cmd Input adb perhaps adb shell, And then go back

If it shows adb Version information and usage of , The installation and configuration are successful

3、 install appium server perhaps appium desktop, You can choose one of the two to install

appium desktop： The actual is appium server+appium inspector Integration of the two tools , among inspector Is a tool that can be used for script recording and script export , Perfect for beginners , If you install this, you don't need to install appium server

appium server：appium The service side , If you only install this , Recommended npm Installation

Mode one ： install appium desktop

Download the installation package of the corresponding operating system ：

https://github.com/appium/appium-desktop/releases

What I installed myself was v1.15.1 Version of , Be stable , Download the corresponding installation package according to the operating system , After successful installation , open desktop

Click on Start Server start-up appium server： Start successfully as shown in the figure below

 

Mode two ： Separate installation appium server

It is recommended to install an image provided by Taobao ,node js You need to load it first , Guarantee npm Package tools can use , To download cnpm Tools for , Reuse cnpm install appium

npm install -g cnpm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org

cnpm install -a appium

installed appium after , Type... Directly on the command line appium function , Can display appium The version information and listening port information indicate that the installation is successful

4、appium client install

Depending on the client's choice of encoding language , You need to choose different client, Here is the use of python3 Language , So you need to install python Linguistic client

Use it directly pip Installation ：pip install appium-python-client

Or in pycharm Directly install through the interface , After installation, see the figure below ：

If import appium No report error , explain appium client Installation successful

5、（ Optional ） Use appium-doctor The tool checks whether the environment has been installed

Use cnpm install appium-doctor Command to install doctor Tools , Be careful cnpm It should be installed in advance , See step 3 The instructions in

After the installation is successful, execute directly appium-doctor, I'll check it out appium Installation of associated tools , Some tools must be installed , For example android Automated testing , that ANDROID_HOME,JAVA_HOME,adb Must be installed

Verify that the environment is installed successfully

1、 Start by opening appium desktop perhaps appium server, Don't complain

2、 Prepare one android equipment , Real machine or simulator , Connect to the computer and use adb services See if it's connected , have access to mumu Simulator

adb Connecting device

【win edition 】
adb connect 127.0.0.1:7555
adb shell

【mac edition 】

adb kill-server && adb server && adb shell

3、 Finally, write the test script , Run script

from time import sleep
from appium import webdriver

desire_cap = {"platformName": "android",
              "deviceName": "127.0.0.1:7555",
              "appPackage": "com.xueqiu.android",
              "appActivity": "com.xueqiu.android.common.MainActivity",
              "noReset": 'true',
              "dontStopAppOnReset": 'true',
              "skipDeviceInitialization": 'true'
              }

driver = webdriver.Remote("http://127.0.0.1:4723/wd/hub", desire_cap)
driver.quit()