grunt-mocha-appium

Run functional tests with Mocha, wd and Appium.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt.

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-mocha-appium --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-mocha-appium');

The "mochaAppium" task

The "mochaAppium" task will use the Appium test automation framework to provide a selenium bridge to native and hybrid applications. Tests are written using mocha

Appium needs to be installed separately. See their getting started guide for information on installing and configuring Appium on you system. You don't need to start an Appium server before running this task, you just need to have it installed.

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named mochaAppium to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  mochaAppium: {
    options: {
      // Mocha options
      reporter: 'spec',
      timeout: 30e3,
      // Toggles wd's promises API, default:false
      usePromises: false
      // Path to appium executable, default:'appium'
      appiumPath: 'appium'
    },
    iphone: {
      src: ['test/*.js'],
      options: {
        // Appium Options
        deviceName: 'iPhone Simulator',
        platformName: 'iOS',
        version: '6.1',
        // A url of a zip file containg your .app package
        // or
        // A local absolute path to your simulator-compiled .app directory
        app: 'http://appium.s3.amazonaws.com/TestApp6.0.app.zip'
      }
    }
  }
});

Options for Mocha and WD

All options are passed to Mocha and WD. See their documentation for everything you might want to configure.

The following options can be supplied to the task:

options.usePromises

Type: Boolean Default value: false

If enabled, this will use the promise-enabled wd browser API instead of the normal synchronous API.

options.appiumPath

Type: String Default value: appium

If provided, this will be used as the location of the appium binary on your system. If you've installed appium with npm and appium is in your path you probably won't need to configure this.

Contributing

In lieu of a formal styleguide, take care to maintain the existing coding style. Add unit tests for any new or changed functionality. Lint and test your code using Grunt.

License

MIT