Jumpstart Your Mobile Automation with Appium & WebdriverIO
summary
Shows how to set up Appium + WebdriverIO in minutes using the Appium installer CLI and the WebdriverIO scaffold, auto-starting and auto-stopping the Appium server, running a simple mobile Safari test that checks a checkbox, and launching an iPhone 15 iOS 17.5 simulator locally or a LambdaTest mobile browser in the cloud. Covers parallel runs, unified capability files, TypeScript support, pnpm for faster installs, and new runtime features in WebdriverIO 9 (Web by) plus the Appium service plugin for seamless integration.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction to Appium and WDIO
- 1:25Fundamentals and Integration
- 3:30Why integrate Appium and WDIO?
- 5:17Architecture and setup
- 7:24Capability management
- 8:34WebdriverIO features
- 12:21Setting up the environment
- 16:16Project configuration and CLI
- 20:00Demo: Local execution
- 23:58Demo: Cloud execution
- 28:20Unleashing WebdriverIO 9
- 33:59Roadmap and conclusions
- 35:42Q&A session
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