Automated Paralel Device Farm

_{~ Throughout iOS and Androids, I alone am tested}

This project goals is to create a program that is able to execute a test for an app accross multiple devices (Android or iOS) in parallel manners. The choosen device manager/ test server is appium.

Prerequisite

• Node Js
• Appium
• InteliJ or any IDE that supports java
• Gradle
• Java JDK 22

Setup Appium

Open your terminal/ command prompt and paste this command :

npm install --location=global appium

This will install appium to global node modules. Then, to start the server, you can simply run

Setup

Install Device farm plugins for appium

Install the device farm plugins with this command:

appium plugin install --source=npm appium-device-farm

After that, you can start the appium server and apply the device farm plugins with this

appium server -ka 800 --use-plugins=device-farm  -pa /wd/hub --plugin-device-farm-platform=android

for more information about what options you could use, you can see this docs Appium CLI reference

Setup the project

After git checkingout the master branch, you should see the whole project and the directories. navigate to test/java/base/Config.java directory and then you should see this code

public Config() {
        this.baseUrl = "http://localhost:4723/";
        this.appPackageId = "appID";
        this.appActivity = "MainActivity";
        this.platform = "android";
    }

change the baseUrl to where your device farm is located (The default one is localhost:4723) then, change the app package ID and the app activity that you want to test