How to integrate Appium with C#?

appium, c#, selenium-webdriver, specflow

Solution

Appium provides the dotnet-appium-driver which is your API to interface with Appium. You can use that to write your app automation.

You did not provide any example here nor code, so I cannot really act on something to show you. I will just write down some C# code to let you understand how a simple test in C# can be written:

namespace AppiumTests
{
  using System;
  // .NET unit test namespaces needed here as well, just not mentioning them
  using OpenQA.Selenium; /* Appium is based on Selenium, we need to include it */
  using OpenQA.Selenium.Appium; /* This is Appium */

  [TestClass]
  public class TestSuite
  {
    private AppiumDriver driver;

    private static Uri testServerAddress = new Uri("http:127.0.01:4723/wd/hub"); // If Appium is running locally
    private static TimeSpan INIT_TIMEOUT_SEC = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(180); /* Change this to a more reasonable value */
    private static TimeSpan IMPLICIT_TIMEOUT_SEC = TimeSpan.FromSeconds(10); /* Change this to a more reasonable value */

    [TestInitialize]
    public void BeforeAll()
    {
      DesiredCapabilities testCapabilities = new DesiredCapabilities();

      testCapabilities.App = "<your-app-file>";
      testCapabilities.AutoWebView = true;
      testCapabilities.AutomationName = "";
      testCapabilities.BrowserName = String.Empty; // Leave empty otherwise you test on browsers
      testCapabilities.DeviceName = "Needed if testing on IOS on a specific device. This will be the UDID";
      testCapabilities.FwkVersion = "1.0"; // Not really needed
      testCapabilities.Platform = TestCapabilities.DevicePlatform.Android; // Or IOS
      testCapabilities.PlatformVersion = String.Empty; // Not really needed

      driver = new AppiumDriver(testServerAddress, capabilities, INIT_TIMEOUT_SEC);
      driver.Manage().Timeouts().ImplicitlyWait(IMPLICIT_TIMEOUT_SEC);
    }

    [TestCleanup]
    public void AfterAll()
    {
      driver.Quit(); // Always quit, if you don't, next test session will fail
    }

    /// 
    /// Just a simple test to heck out Appium environment.
    /// 
    [TestMethod]
    public void CheckTestEnvironment()
    {
      var context = driver.GetContext();
      Assert.IsNotNull(context);
    }
  }
}

You can find more in this article I wrote.

Problem

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