Appium with Selenium

Introduction

Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS and Android platforms.

Appium enables iOS and Android automation using Selenium WebDriver. The same WebDriver bindings can be used across web and mobile.

Why Appium?

• You don't have to recompile your app or modify it in any way, due to use of standard automation APIs on all platforms.
• You can write tests with your favorite dev tools using any WebDriver-compatible language such as Java, Objective-C, JavaScript with Node.js (in promise, callback or generator flavors), PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, Clojure, or Perl with the Selenium WebDriver API and language-specific client libraries.
• You can use any testing framework.

Features:

• Open Source
• Apache 2.0 License
• Cross Platform
• Test Android on OS X, Windows, Linux
• Test iOS on OS X
• Native, Hybrid, Mobile Web
• Any language. Any framework.
• No app changes or source code access required.

Required Software :

1.Java (JDK 6.0 or above version)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/jdk8-downloads-2133151.html

2.Android Configuration Installation(ADT bundle)
http://downloads.puresoftware.org/files/android/adt-bundle/

3. Node.js
https://nodejs.org/download/

4. .Net Framework
http://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=17851

5. java.client jar
http://www.java2s.com/Code/Jar/s/Downloadseleniumjavaclientdriver101jar.htm

6. Appium Bundle
http://appium.io/downloads.html