Automation Guide Application testing Mobile testing Testing mobile applications iOS Automation Setting up the iOS test environment Setting up installation local appium server

 Installing appium server

Installing appium server

Installing XCode

If you haven’t already installed XCode, go to the Apple App Store on your Mac or click here.

Command Line Tools

You’ll also need to install Command Line Tools (CLT) for Xcode. You can do this by running xcode-select --install from the terminal. You can also get it from Apple’s download page.

Once the installation is complete, verify that the CLT location has been set in Xcode.

1. Open Xcode and go Preferences under Xcode in the menu bar (or hit CMD + ,)
2. Click on the Location tab
3. Select the location of of your Command Line Tools

Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager for OSx. We’ll need it to install some of the packages. If you haven’t already, you can install it by running this from the terminal:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Carthage

Carthage is a dependency manager for iOS development. It is required for iOS testing. Install it by running this from the terminal:

brew install carthage

Installing JDK

1. Download the proper installation file from Oracle (The LTS version is recommended i.e. Java SE 11.0.5(LTS)) for your operating system

2. Run the installer, then wait until the installation is complete

3. Set JAVA_HOME in your system’s environmental variables to the JDK installation path.

   • OSx: Open ~/.bash_profile with a text editor and add the line export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home. Save the file and run source ~/.bash_profile from the terminal

Installing Appium

Appium Desktop

For test development, we need to install Appium Desktop, a full package that contains:

• Appium Server, the software driving the test automation
• A GUI to start Appium Server and inspect mobile applications.

Click here to download and install the package for OSx. Typically it’s the one with .dmg extension

Now open Appium Desktop and click the Edit Configurations button.

• JAVA_HOME: Set this to the location of your java installation
  • The standard location for OSx is /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk-11.0.5.jdk/Contents/Home

Save the settings and restart Appium Desktop.

Appium Command line

1. Install Appium

   npm install -g appium

2. Install Appium-doctor

npm install -g appium-doctor

To verify that everything is installed properly run appium-doctor from the terminal.