Can Selenium be used for mobile testing?

The long answer would be: “You cannot use Selenium for mobile app testing, but there are frameworks based on Selenium especially created for mobile automated testing. You can still use Selenium for mobile website testing.”

Table of Contents

What is selenium and Appium?

Used to make web-app testing easier by automating browser actions using WebDriver. Coverage. Appium can automate tests for both mobile (android, ios) and desktop applications. Selenium can only automate Web application testing on multiple browsers. It cannot automate desktop applications.

Is Appium easy to learn?

Appium itself is fairly straightforward and easy to learn. It’s based on the remote WebDriver protocol. It supports almost all the common development languages. If you have skills in writing tests in JavaScript, in Java, in Python, Perl, C#, and so on, you can easily use Appium for mobile testing.

Does Appium need coding?

Appium does not require application source code or library. Appium provides a strong and active community. Appium has multi-platform support i.e., it can run the same test cases on multiple platforms.

Should I learn Appium?

Appium is a free open-source test automation framework for mobile testing. It is a wrapper that translates Selenium commands into iOS and Android commands, so if you already know Selenium, you’re already partway there! And if you don’t already know Selenium, well, you really should learn it.

What language is Appium?

Appium uses JSON wire protocol. Appium allows test scripts written in Java, Python, Ruby, C#, JavaScript, and PHP or any language that supports Selenium. Appium allows multiple devices testing with different OS simultaneously.

Why mobile automation testing is a must for your business?

Mobile automation testing tools offer a perfect solution for software developers looking to produce reliable, robust, and high-quality software. This gives them an edge in an industry that’s currently facing immense competitive pressure.

How to do automation testing for mobile applications?

This mobile automation tool Identify the tests that need to be automated

Research and analyze the automation tools that meet your automation needs

Do a pilot for two best tools as per your requirements and budget.

Based on results of pilot,shortlist 1 tool

What is automated mobile testing?

When manual test cases are slow,then we will use Automate test cases.

The test cases which can be easily automated then we will use Automation Testing.

Automation testing is used for test cases,which is written for the frequently used functionality.

Automation testing is used for the automated test cases,which we cannot perform manually.

How to test mobile applications manually?

Test the application on a real device to get real about performance

Improve your testing methods,because traditional testing methods are no longer sufficient to coverage all tests on iOS testing

Using console log to test iOS application.

Document application bugs using built-in screen short command.