appium-youiengine-driver

Appium You.i Engine Driver

Appium You.i Engine Driver is a test automation tool for devices of various platforms (iOS, Android) running applications built with You.i Engine. Appium You.i Driver automates You.i Engine applications, tested on simulators and real devices. Appium You.i Driver is part of the Appium mobile test automation tool.

iOS Support

Appium You.i Engine Driver supports iOS versions 8+

Android Support

Appium You.i Engine Driver supports Android versions 4.1+ (API level 16+)

Installation

npm install appium-youiengine-driver

Desired Capabilities

Desired capabilities (caps) are a set of keys and values (i.e., a map or hash) sent to the Appium server to tell the server what kind of automation session we’re interested in starting up. These caps are defined in the appium.txt file. There are various capabilities which can modify the behavior of the server during automation.

Capability	Description	Values
youiEngineAppAddress	The IP address of the device on which the app is running. localhost for simulator. Device’s IP address for a real device`	localhost, <device’s IP address>

Minimum required capabilities per platform

Below is a sample of the minimum required caps per platform.

iOS

Capability	Simulator	Real device
app	<path to the app>	<path to the app>
automationName	YouiEngine	YouiEngine
deviceName	<iOS Simulator device name>	<device’s name>
platformName	iOS	iOS
platformVersion	<iOS version>	<iOS version>
udid	Not applicable	<device’s udid>
xcodeOrgId	<Team ID>	<Team ID>
youiEngineAppAddress	localhost	<device’s IP address>

Android

Capability	Simulator	Real device
app	Not Applicable	<path to the app>
automationName	Not Applicable	YouiEngine
deviceName	Not Applicable	<device’s ID>
platformName	Not Applicable	iOS
youiEngineAppAddress	Not Applicable	<device’s IP address>

Notes:

• For iOS 8+, set the following on your device: Settings -> Developer -> Set UI Automation -> true
• xcodeOrgId
• Android device name: found using adb devices

Commands

List of supported commands could be found in the docs section

API Notes

¹ lock behaves differently in Android than it does in iOS. In Android it does not take any arguments, and locks the screen and returns immediately.

² toggleWiFi, toggleData, toggleFlightMode can be achieved via getNetworkConnection and setNetworkConnection.

FindBy strategies

FindBy strategies could be found in the docs section