ATDD Mobile Test Automation - Integration of FitNesse with Appium - Part 1

FitNesse is a collaboration tool, some Agile enthusiasts use this tool to facilitate ATDD (Acceptance Test Driven Development) or BDD (Behaviour Driven Development).  Compared to Cucumber where the focus is on the behavioral aspect, here we also get inclined towards the test data framework.

Appium is the premier open-source tool for mobile testing.  Here is my video on integrating FitNesse with Appium.

FitNesse can be downloaded from this link --> http://www.fitnesse.org/FitNesseDownload

The prerequisite for Appium project are as below:

• Install Android SDK
• Install Node.js
• Install Appium
• Install Appium Java Client
• Configure Appium in Eclipse (preferably maven project)

FitNesse server can be started using following command:

java -jar fitnesse-standalone.jar -p 9090

where -p gives which port to start the server.

Configure the project in eclipse with FitNesse and Appium dependencies and run the mobile test.  More details on Eclipse setup in part 2.

BDD Mobile Test Automation - Integration of Cucumber with Appium

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) is very popular with many Agilists out there, specially those focused on Testing. However my view is that BDD is not about Test Automation, it is about collaboration so that the expected behavior of the application can be determined. Cucumber happens to be the tool of choice to implement BDD.  While doing this for web applications, we can drive the features through WebDriver.

Lately the application development has been inclined towards mobile apps and we need to extend our exiting BDD frameworks to handle app, be it Android, iOS or Win Mobile.

Appium is a neat tool for anyone who has exposure to WebDriver, irrespective of that also it is an excellent tool for mobile testing.

Here is my video of running Appium tests for android app using Cucumber.

You can create the Maven project using the following POM.xml:

<?xml version=&amp;quot;1.0&amp;quot; encoding=&amp;quot;UTF-8&amp;quot;?>
<project xmlns=&amp;quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0&amp;quot;
xmlns:xsi=&amp;quot;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance&amp;quot;
xsi:schemaLocation=&amp;quot;http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd&amp;quot;>
<modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>LATEST</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-java</artifactId>
<version>1.0.14</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>info.cukes</groupId>
<artifactId>cucumber-junit</artifactId>
<version>1.0.14</version>
<scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>
</project>

The code for JUnit test runner is as below:

1:  package com.qaagility.atacalc;

2:  import cucumber.api.CucumberOptions;

3:  import cucumber.api.junit.Cucumber;

4:  import org.junit.runner.RunWith;

5:  @RunWith(Cucumber.class)

6:  @CucumberOptions(format ="pretty", tags={"@only"}, features = "test/resources/ATA_Calc.feature", monochrome=true)

7:  public class TestRunner {

8:  }