Creating Appium and Maven Project

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Why Maven and Appium?

Appium is good tool for mobile automation. But, when using it for testing and building a test framework, it feels underpowered. Integrating Maven with Appium provides following benefits as, Apache Maven provides support for managing the full lifecycle of a test project.

1. Maven is mainly used for defining project structure, dependencies, build, and test management.
2. Using pom.xml(Maven) you can configure dependencies needed for building, executing and testing code.
3. Maven automatically downloads the necessary files from the repository while building the project.

How to Install Maven 

1. Down Load latest version of Maven from THIS LINK.

2. Add an Environmental Variable MAVEN_HOME as shown below

3. Add Maven bin path in 'path' System Variable

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4. Go to command prompt and run command 'mvn -version'

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5.Check the results to ensure it is installed successfully

Create Maven Project in Eclipse -

1. Open Eclipse

2. Go to New -> Project ->

3. Select Simple Maven Project -> Next

4. Enter SampleTestProject in Group Id and Artifact Id -> Finish

5. Check the project structure and right click on JRE System Library and click on properties.

 

6. Select workspace default jre.

Install TestNG in Eclipse 

1. Help -> Install New Software

2. Click on Add -> Enter TestNG and path http://beust.com/eclipse/ -> click OK

3. Select TestNG and click on Next

4. Again Click on NEXT 

5. Click on Accept and Finish

6. Click on Ok for Security Warning dialog box and then installation will start

 

7. Then Restart your Eclipse

Add TestNG and Appium in Pom.xml 

1. Open pom.xml 

 2. Copy below code within <Project> tag of Pom.xml

<dependencies>
<dependency>
<groupId>junit</groupId>
<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
<version>4.11</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
<artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
<version>2.46.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
<groupId>io.appium</groupId>
<artifactId>java-client</artifactId>
<version>3.1.0</version>
<scope>provided</scope>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
  <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
  <version>6.8</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
</dependencies>

3. Create a TestNG class and write a sample Test Case . Refer Appium tutorial for writing sample test case.And you can run maven test by right clicking on project and click on maven test.