Mobile Automation with Appium

4.

Your First Appium Script

4.1.

Understanding Desired Capabilities

4.1.1.

What are Desired Capabilities?

4.1.1.1.

Purpose and Function

4.1.1.2.

Capability Categories

4.1.2.

Common Capabilities

4.1.2.1.

4.1.2.2.

platformVersion

4.1.2.3.

4.1.2.4.

4.1.2.5.

4.1.2.6.

4.1.3.

Android-Specific Capabilities

4.1.3.1.

4.1.3.2.

4.1.3.3.

4.1.3.4.

4.1.4.

iOS-Specific Capabilities

4.1.4.1.

4.1.4.2.

4.1.4.3.

4.1.5.

Additional Capabilities

4.1.5.1.

4.1.5.2.

4.1.5.3.

newCommandTimeout

4.1.5.4.

autoGrantPermissions

4.2.

The Appium Session Lifecycle

4.2.1.

Initiating a Driver Session

4.2.1.1.

Creating Session with Capabilities

4.2.1.2.

Session Establishment Process

4.2.2.

Session Management

4.2.2.1.

Session Start and End

4.2.2.2.

Session Timeout Handling

4.2.2.3.

Best Practices for Session Management

4.2.3.

Terminating Sessions

4.2.3.1.

Proper Session Cleanup

4.2.3.2.

Resource Management

4.2.3.3.

Handling Session Failures

4.3.

Writing Your First Test Script

4.3.1.

Project Structure Setup

4.3.2.

Importing Required Libraries

4.3.3.

Defining Capabilities

4.3.4.

Creating the Driver Instance

4.3.5.

Executing Basic Actions

4.3.5.1.

Launching the Application

4.3.5.2.

Finding Elements

4.3.5.3.

Performing Interactions

4.3.6.

Adding Assertions

4.3.7.

Closing the Session

4.3.8.

4.4.

Running and Debugging Your First Script

4.4.1.

Execution Environment Setup

4.4.2.

Running the Script

4.4.3.

Interpreting Results

4.4.4.

Common First-Time Issues

4.4.5.

Debugging Techniques

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