5 Easy Steps For Testing Mobile Apps Using Appium With Cerberus Testing

The best step-by-step tutorial on Cerberus testing will help us understand the test automation workflow and the good practices supported by testing mobile apps using Appium with Cerberus Testing. 

We will be able to automatic mobile application tests for Android and iOS until this article’s end. We will also learn how to configure our device, create and execute test cases.

5 Steps For Testing Mobile Apps Using Appium

Below are the easy 5 steps for Testing mobile apps using Appium with Cerberus Testing:

1. Setting Up the Application and Testing the Robot

The initial setup and integration for enabling the mobile test automation are described in this section. Firstly we are required to upload the mobile application on the device we want to test. Then we will be able to configure the robot for interacting with the device under test. At last, we will define the application under test environments for referencing in our test cases.

• Uploading our mobile application
• Creating the testing robot.
• Creating the application.

We will now be able to move the tab environments where we will be configuring the test context. Namely the test environment, country, and host. It includes the ID of our device under the Test. 

We can configure various environments as we want by combining the test environments with our country’s parameters. They should represent various test contexts so that we can choose for our test execution.

2. Creating the Test Case

We will now be building our test case to be run against the application We have just created. Similarly, we will be accessing the required menu, defining our test case content, and sharing tips related to the test creation procedure. By clicking on the create a test case for displaying the creation pop-up, we will fill in the required information:

• Test Folder: Selecting the folder in which we want to keep our test cases. By choosing a demo, we can manage the folders on the test/test folder page.
• Test Case ID: Entering our custom ID on leaving the default generated one.
• Test Case Short Description: Entering a one-line description generally in a use case format.
• Application: Selecting the Application under Test.
• Status: choosing the implementation state of our test case in our example will set it to standby. For information, the status could be used as test execution criteria, and a dashboard will be available on the home page.
• Type: Select automated for confirming it is an automated test. We can have manual or private tests.

3. Define the Step, Action, and Control

We will now be configuring the Test using the local library: step, action, and control. A step is a group of action and control for the main stages of our Test. Using a good design of those elements, we will be able to reduce them across tests to improve our test maintainability.

• Adding the Test Case Step

Now we can add the step via the add step button and enter the corresponding description. Using clear descriptions to have clear test readability improves maintainability and reusability.

• Add the Test Case Action and Controls

We will be detailing different actions and controls that we should perform during the test in this step. The commands will be executed in the order of their appearance. Below listed are the parameters that we can use: 

• Open the Mobile Application
• Action open Application: Opening the application set in the application description. We should know that we must start our mobile application test with one of the open actions for Cerberus testing to know where to start.
• Taking a Screenshot After Application Opening
• Control Take a Screenshot: We will now take a full-screen screenshot and define it for the sake of demonstration. It could be taken automatically at every action or only for errors.
• Performing Various Computer Operations
• Action Click: Clicking on the recognized element.
• Verifying the Search Results
• Control verify Element Text Equal: We will be very fine if our operations result is as expected in the result area in this case. A lot of other controls are available and explained in the documentation.
• Closing the Mobile Application
• Action Close Application: Closing the application for ending the fashion with the robot acting as the interface between our Test and the device. It will avoid the Test to remain pending and analyze the session. We will confirm the changes by clicking on the same test case button in the top right corner.

4. Run the Test Case

Our test case is now ready to be run! We will go to the “Run / Run Test Case” on our Run page. Other alternatives cannot be presented by design until the Test is conducted in a specified setting once.

• Launching the Test via the Run test Page

By default, the test case is chosen such that the running parameters that scroll down the page can be specified.

• Confirm the Parameters Below:

1. Environment: Select one or more conditions for running the test case. Choose “PROD” in our situation.
2. Country: Checking one or more countries to run the test case. Once again, in the application, the country we selected is specified. Choose ‘UK.’
3. Settings for Robots: Identifying the hub of the mobile app to conduct the test case. Other remote testing facilities like LambdaTest, Kobiton, Saucelabs, and others can also be implemented.
4. Settings of Execution: Mainly related to testing traceability, test infrastructure, and queuing process (retry, priority).

• Follow these Case Execution:

If at this point we will experience a challenge, the common themes have been listed:

1. Check the program description for the research area and country in particular. Perhaps the problem is whether we find a message relevant to these criteria.
2. Checking our environment allowed a test case. We must specifically trigger the test case in the test case header if we can’t run the test in a production environment.
3. Check that our robot operates properly and is available in ports that we have built up. On the “Run/Robots” tab, we can control them.

5. Analyzing the Test Case Report

The outcome of our test cases is now to be evaluated! When our test case is complete, our test status will be seen on the left’s progress bar. OK, or KO is the main one. The numerous tabs and their respective uses were listed here:

• Steps: History, with data executed and reference to different snapshots, of the test case, operation, and control.
• Properties: We will find here all the Properties used for our Test. This tab is empty because we haven’t specified one here.
• Execution Details: Tracing the execution of the test event, including starting and end dates, status, and ID. We can open a ticket from this tab if it is configured on an external network.
• Environment: The context of the test case.
• Robot: Robot research infrastructure traceability and browsers.
• Traceability: Requires, where appropriate, the execution shifts.

Hope this article has solved all our doubts regarding testing mobile apps using Appium with Cerberus testing.

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