Company
Date Published
Author
Isaac Murchie
Word count
1771
Language
English
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None

Summary

Appium + Sauce Labs Bootcamp: Chapter 1, Language Bindings` This chapter introduces the basics of Appium and its language bindings for Java, Python, and eventually Ruby. It explains how Appium uses the Sauce Labs Webdriver API to interact with mobile devices, and how it provides a set of commands that can be used in any programming language. The chapter covers the basic concepts of finding elements on the UI, inspecting their properties, and interacting with them using various commands such as `click`, `send_keys`, and `location`. It also discusses the importance of desired capabilities in specifying the environment for running tests and how to instantiate a driver object using these capabilities. Additionally, it touches upon the locator strategies used by Appium, including finding elements by accessibility ID or class name. The chapter concludes with examples in Java and Python demonstrating how to use Appium with Sauce Labs for automating UI tests on iOS devices.