{"id":10922,"date":"2017-10-13T12:15:42","date_gmt":"2017-10-13T10:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flaven.fr\/?p=10922"},"modified":"2026-09-16T10:10:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T08:10:20","slug":"mobile-testing-using-calabash-or-appium-to-test-your-mobile-applications-on-ios-and-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaven.fr\/2017\/10\/mobile-testing-using-calabash-or-appium-to-test-your-mobile-applications-on-ios-and-android\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile, Testing – Using Calabash or Appium to test your mobile applications on iOS and Android"},"content":{"rendered":"

At a certain point when you are making development for mobile, your have to, like for the desktop, to leverage on test automated tool for mobile application. For mobile, you may find 2 solutions that are widely common in mobile environment : Appium and Calabash.
\nOur propose was to handle the tests with the same tool in both of the most popular OS : Android and iOS.<\/p>\n

With Appium you are not force to give your source to an external company, that is mainly very time consuming. With Appium, as the in-house tester, you can handle test automation on both Android and iOS mobile application.<\/p>\n

Appium provide a client-side that is very helpful for non-developer like me for instance.<\/p>\n

Appium is also very close to the Selenium RC and Appium server leverage on the selenium api and what else… for Calabash<\/p>\n

For Calabash, the interesting point is that you can write your features straight in Gherkin. This is to my point of view, one the best advantage of Calabash. For instance, you can ask our PO (Product Owner) who knows its products and has certainly written the User Stories for the application’s conception to convert them into useful functional scenarios with a minimum learning curve. What more could you ask for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This non-tutorial covers haphazardly some of the required commands and installation that you may have to do and give a large amount of resources especially some videos in order to help you to install on Mac Appium and calabash for Android and iOS.<\/p>\n

Appium<\/h4>\n

Appium is giving you a \"doctor\" to inspect your installation and give you the errors to solve<\/code>
\n\"Mobile,<\/p>\n

When there is no errors in the diagnostic, you can run Appium<\/code>
\n\"Mobile,<\/p>\n

Calabash<\/h4>\n

To install calabash for mac<\/b><\/p>\n

\r\n$ curl -sSL https:\/\/raw.githubusercontent.com\/calabash\/install\/master\/install-osx.sh | bash\r\n<\/pre>\n
to launch calabash<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-sandbox\r\n<\/pre>\n
To setup calabash for Android<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-android setup\r\n<\/pre>\n
To generate the feature directory inside the project directory<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-android gen\r\n<\/pre>\n
to launch calabash for an .apk<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-android run app-debug.apk --verbose\r\n<\/pre>\n
For iOS, you may use the following command.<\/b><\/p>\n
To install calabash for iOS<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-ios setup\r\n<\/pre>\n
To update calabash<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-sandbox update\r\n<\/pre>\n
To start calabash<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-sandbox\r\nThis terminal is now ready to use with Calabash.\r\nTo exit, type 'exit'.\r\n<\/pre>\n
Go to your project (the dir containing the .xcodeproj file)<\/b><\/p>\n
\r\n$ calabash-ios gen\r\n<\/pre>\n
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