Example - Selenium2 working with Android environment

Aim:
To execute a Selenium2 script against a web browser on the Andrioid emulator

Difficulty Level: Hard

What you will learn?

• Create a working Android emulator setup.
• Integration of the environment with Selenium2 APIs

Tips:

1. Some knowledge of creating/running selenium test scripts would be advantage in working on this Exercise.
2. For more details on working with Android: Useful Link

Pre-requisites:
1. Android setup on the Eclipse IDE, use link How to setup Android environment over Ecplise IDE?
:To make sure of if Android setup is done,use link How to make sure Android setup into Eclipse?
2. Selenium2 API jar, for downloading these APIs follow the below steps:

• Go with the link 'http://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list'
• Download selenium-java-x.x.x.zip, here x.x.x denotes any version.
• Keep the downloaded APIs anywhere in your PC's hard disk, we would use them in the exercise's steps.

3. Install Android-server-x.x.x.apk file (where x.x.x denotes the version of the latest installer), to make the installation correctly use the exercise link Android server installation

Commands used in example:

• driver.get(String url)
• Driver.findElement by id, name.
• submit()
• sendkeys()
• getTitle()

Working Examples Steps:

• If you have followed Pre-requisites (basically first and third ones) then go with the next step to make the completion of exercise.
• Run the installed Webdriver server. (once you followed pre-requisite #3 then you would see icon to install the Webdriver server)
• Open the command-prompt and select the platform-tool directory.
• Execute the command ‘adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080’ for setup the connection.
• Create Android project on the Eclipse IDE.
• Add all Selenium2 API jar into the library of already created project, after following Pre-requisite #2 you have already store APIs on your system. Follow the link to get how to add APIs in project's library
• Run the created Project.
• See the script run on the Android Emulator.

Script:

Save the code as a AndroidScript.java

package com.example.test;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.android.AndroidDriver;

public class  AndroidScript extends TestCase{

public void testGoogle() throws Exception {

System.out.println("Hello Android");

AndroidDriver driver = new AndroidDriver();

driver.get("http://www.google.com");

WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.name("q"));

element.sendKeys("Selenium!");

element.submit();

System.out.println("Page title is: " + driver.getTitle());

driver.quit();

}

}

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