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Behave With Appium

Tutorial To Run Your First Test On LambdaTest​

In this topic, you will learn how to configure and run your Behave automation testing scripts with Appium on LambdaTest Real Device Cloud platform.

Objective​

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:

  1. Run a sample automation script of Behave for application testing with Appium on LambdaTest.
  2. Learn more about Desired Capabilities for Appium testing.
  3. Explore advanced features of LambdaTest.
Sample repo

All the code samples in this documentation can be found on LambdaTest's Github Repository. You can either download or clone the repository to quickly run your tests. Image View on GitHub

Pre-requisites​

Before you can start performing App automation testing with Appium, please make sure:

  • You have access to LambdaTest username and accessKey. If you have not registered yet, you can do the same by visiting our website. You will be able to access the credentials in the LambdaTest Profile
  • Install the latest stable Python build from the official website.
  • Make sure pip is installed in your system. You can install pip from here.

Run your first test​

1. Upload your application​

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 from System:

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

Using App URL:

curl -u "undefined:undefined" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -F "url=:https://prod-mobile-artefacts.lambdatest.com/assets/docs/proverbial_android.apk" -F "name=Proverbial_App"
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.

2. Clone the sample project​

  1. Clone the LambdaTest’s LT-appium-python-behave and navigate to the code directory as shown below:
git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/LT-appium-python-behave
cd LT-appium-python-behave

3. Set 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. Then, set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables with following commands.

export LT_USERNAME=undefined \
export LT_ACCESS_KEY=undefined

4. Write your automation script​

To get started, here is an example of sample test on our sample Android and iOS App shown below. You can write or add your own Appium automation scripts in *StepDef.py directory to run different tests on your app.

AndroidStepDef.py
import sys
import os
path = os.getcwd()
sys.path.append(os.path.abspath(os.path.join(path, os.pardir)))
from time import time
from behave import given
from appium import webdriver
import appConfig as appConf
from appium.webdriver.common.mobileby import MobileBy
from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import WebDriverWait
from selenium.webdriver.support import expected_conditions as EC

@given("Start the android app automation test")
def startAndroidAppAutomationTest(self):
    if os.environ.get("LT_USERNAME") is None:
        username = "username" #Enter username here
    else:
        username = os.environ.get("LT_USERNAME")
    if os.environ.get("LT_ACCESS_KEY") is None:
        accesskey = "accesskey" #Enter accessKey here
    else:
        accesskey = os.environ.get("LT_ACCESS_KEY")

    driver = webdriver.Remote(
        command_executor="https://"+username+":"+accesskey+"@mobile-hub.lambdatest.com/wd/hub",
        desired_capabilities=appConf.app_android_desired_caps
        )
    try:
        colorElement = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/color")))
        colorElement.click()

        textElement = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/Text")))
        textElement.click()

        toastElement = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/toast")))
        toastElement.click()

        notification = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/notification")))
        notification.click()

        geolocation = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/geoLocation")))
        geolocation.click()

        home = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/Home")))
        home.click()

        speedTest = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/speedTest")))
        speedTest.click()

        home = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/Home")))
        home.click()

        browser = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/Browser")))
        browser.click()

        url = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/url")))
        url.send_keys("https://www.lambdatest.com")

        find = WebDriverWait(driver,20).until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((MobileBy.ID,"com.lambdatest.proverbial:id/find")))
        find.click()

        driver.quit()
    except:
        driver.quit()

Configure the test capabilities​

You need to update your capabilities in appConfig.py files. In this sample project, we have provided the examples for running tests on both Android and iOS apps. 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 for a single test are defined as:

appConfig.py
app_ios_desired_caps = {
  "lt:options": {
    "deviceName":"iPhone 12",
    "platformName":"ios",
    "platformVersion":"14",
    "build":"Python Behave - iOS",
    "name":"Sample Test iOS",
    "app":"APP_URL" ,#Enter app (.ipa) url here
    "isRealMobile":True,
    "network":False,
    "visual":True,
    "video":True,
    "w3c":True
  }
}
Note

5. Execute your test case​

  1. Install the required packages from the cloned project directory:
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Execute the following command to run your test on LambdaTest platform:
behave --tags @iosApp
info

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.

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