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Implement Appium Test in BrowserStack

Sample guideline for implement Appium Test in one of the most popular cloud solution for testing.

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Recently I need to setup automate testing environment for Android application in my company. There are some cloud testing solutions for mobile testing with Appium. But after trying quite a few of them (AWS device farm, Saucelabs, BrowserStack), I come to choose BrowserStack beause it’s quite easy to use. In this story, I will go over a simple test scenario for an Android application in Browserstack. BrowserStack supports a lot of programming languages for Appium but I will showcase with Python.

What you need to prepare to get along

• Python3
• Pycharm IDE
• Venv (Virtual environment for Python project)
• Browserstack account
• An Android Application to test
• Behave

BrowserStack support 2 types of testing framework for Python : Behave and Lettuce. Both are BDD framework but Lettuce is not actively developed anymore so I’ll go with Behave since it’s well known and is still being developed.