在为Cordova iOS应用构建Appium测试框架的同时，找到选择器的任何简便方法

Question

I am working on automating a iOS app using Appium-Java.

While writing the Page objects we need to find identifiers ( driver.findelement ) or when UI changes.

Currently its tedious job, as manually need to traverse through till required screen & then write the selectors( n CSS / XPath / XCUnit based Xpath)

1. Currently, there's no easy way to test CSS selectors / XPath (unlike web where we can test it then & there on Firefox / chrome using browser add-ons)

2. Is there any way to invoke certain screen directly instead of traversing from the starting point in iOS/Android native app or Cordova based app, while writing the selectors?

Kindly advise. Thanks.

Answer 1

For a Cordova-based iOS app, you can use wd and wd-bridge to provide a mechanism to allow Appium to communicate directly with the Webview, enabling you to use CSS selectors.

This blog post gives a great tutorial on how to setup such a test environment using Protractor/Jasmine.

You can then write Protractor tests which allow you to reference your app UI elements as HTML components, eg:

describe('Testing the app', function () {
  it('01. should have a header', function () {
    var header = element(by.id('header'));
    expect(header.getAttribute('class')).toContain('toolbar');
   });
});