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Basic Appium Automation: Part 2 — Using Locators (iOS)
How To Use the Accessibility ID, Name, XPath and Class Name Locators in iOS
In Part 1, we covered the available locator types in Appium 2. In this article, let’s look at creating a sample script using a few different locator types.
Key Points
- Using the Accessibility ID, Name, XPath and Class Name Locators in a sample iOS app
- Using the
find_element
method to locate a single element - Using the
find_elements
method to locate multiple elements with the same locator
Sample App
This article uses Appium’s Sample iOS Test App. This is available on Appium’s Github page as a sample app. Download and save the TestApp.app.zip
file (leave it as an app.zip — do not unzip).
This TestApp contains a simple addition calculator, which we will use to try out the AccessibilityID, Name, XPath and Class locator types.
iOS Test App — Accessibility ID, Name, XPath, Class Locators
The Appium capabilities to start up the Appium session are:
app_file = File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), "..", "..", "sample-apps", "TestApp.app.zip")
opts = {
caps: {
automationName: 'xcuitest',
platformName: 'ios',
platformVersion: '17.2', # match your Xcode Simulator's version
deviceName…