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18 April, 2017

Cucumber with Appium & their Advantages

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Appium with cucumber can serve good benefits when used together for automated mobile app testing. Let’s discuss about this concept in detail.

Cucumber-with-Appium-&-their-Advantages

What is Appium?

    • Appium is an open source mobile app test automation tool.
    • It permits you to run the automated tests on actual devices, simulators and emulators.
    • Appium has framework or wrapper that translate Selenium Webdriver commands into UIAutomation (iOS) or UIAutomator (Android) commands.

Advantages of Appium:

    • Appium supports all languages that have Selenium client libraries like Java, JavaScript with node.js, Objective-C, PHP, Python, Ruby, C# etc. Appium lets you choose the language you want to write your test in. It doesn’t restrict specific language or framework to be utilized.
    • Appium framework is able to test iOS and Android apps.
    • Appium supports automation of hybrid, native and mobile web apps.
    • Appium has cross-platform capability.
    • Appium is open source (free).
    • Appium can run app through appium server without falsifying the app.
    • No source code required for appium setup (unlike robotium).
    • Appium is continuous integration compatible with jenkins, saucelabs.
    • Able to run appium on selenium grid.

What is Cucumber?

    • Cucumber is a testing collaboration tool that supports Behavior Driven Development (BDD) framework.
    • It represents application behaviour using simple English text, defined by a language called Gherkin.
    • All venture stakeholders combine together and conceptualize about which test scenarios should be passed in order to call this application/software successful. This way they come up with a set of test scenarios.
    • Cucumber test file extension is “.feature”.

Advantages of Cucumber:

    • All cucumber test scripts are in basic language, so it serves the purpose of documentation too.
    • It is an open source tool so it can be used for free.
    • Cucumber reduces writing work as it can act as requirement document for developers and test case document for testers.
    • Cucumber usage keeps all project stakeholders in sync for project requirement.

Appium with Cucumber:

    • 9series is working and experimenting these technologies since while.
    • Procedure is to write use cases in cucumber, it will create essential strategies to write for automated testing and then write test code for methods using appium.

Cucumber with appium work flow

Advantages of using Appium with Cucumber:

    • Using cucumber with appium reduces complexity of test code as cucumber provides the basic method layout to tester to write code.
    • Combining cucumber with appium makes test automation process more understandable and less complex.
    • This combination provides better opportunities to combine continuous integration tools like jenkins for better result reporting.
    • Scalability of test automation framework increases when both are used together. 9series completed various mobile test automation projects using appium with cucumber.
    • There is no tool that are cost associated when using them.

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