Web UI automation in browsers (Chrome or Firefox) using Appium on real device

[Kirill Zhukov]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to run simple test on real device. Just go to the link google.com in Chrome.

First, I run server with command:

appium -U device_uuid --app-pkg com.android.chrome

It returns next:

info: Welcome to Appium v1.2.0 (REV e53f49c706a25242e66d36685c268b599cc18da5)
info: Appium REST http interface listener started on 0.0.0.0:4723
debug: Non-default server args: {"udid":"device_uuid","androidPackage":"com.and
roid.chrome"}
info: LogLevel: debug

On http://localhost:4723/wd/hub/status I am getting this:

{"status":0,"value":{"build":{"version":"1.2.0","revision":"e53f49c706a25242e66d36685c268b599cc18da5"}}}

After I am running this test:

package test;


import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;


import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;
import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;


public class Test {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {
     WebDriver driver;
     DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();
     driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), cap);
     driver.get("http://www.google.com");
 }
}

But I am getting this error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com/google/common/base/Function
 at test.Test.main(Test.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.google.common.base.Function
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 ... 1 more

[Isaac Murchie]

Sounds like a class path issue. Do you have the Selenium jars available?

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[Kirill Zhukov]

Hello, Isaac. Thank you for response.

I am pretty sure that I have right classpath and all needed jars. I was checking it whole yesterday :)

Kirill.

[Isaac Murchie]

Ok. But com.google.common.base.Function is from Google Guava/Collections. It's included in the Selenium standalone jar. Otherwise you need to add it yourself (along with other stuff, possibly).

[Kirill Zhukov]

In my classpath I have selenium-java-2.42.2.jar, selenium-java-2.42.2-srcs.jar, junit-4.11.jar, java-client-1.5.0.jar, java-client-1.5.0-javadoc.jar, and java-client-1.5.0-sources.jar. Did I miss something?

Thank you, Isaac.

[Kirill Zhukov]

So, I added selenium-server-standalone-2.42.2 to the classpath and now I am getting next error:

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/http/conn/SchemePortResolver
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:99)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.<init>(HttpCommandExecutor.java:82)
 at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:153)
 at test.Test.main(Test.java:14)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.http.conn.SchemePortResolver

 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
 at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
 at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
 at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)

 ... 4 more

Seems like I didn't import something...

[Isaac Murchie]

I think Google can help you more than I can.

[Kirill Zhukov]

Alright, then. Thanks :D

[Kirill Zhukov]

Ok, so I missed jars from selenium's libs folder. Now I am getting next error:

Exception in thread "main" org.openqa.selenium.SessionNotCreatedException: A new session could not be created. (Original error: Activity used to start app doesn't exist or cannot be launched! Make sure it exists and is a launchable activity) (WARNING: The server did not provide any stacktrace information)

Here is my code:

package test;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;

import java.net.URL;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebDriver;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.CapabilityType;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.DesiredCapabilities;

import org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver;

public class Test {

    public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException {

     WebDriver driver;

     DesiredCapabilities cap = new DesiredCapabilities();

     cap.setCapability(CapabilityType.BROWSER_NAME, "");

     cap.setCapability("platformName", "Android");

     cap.setCapability("deviceName", "HTC One_M8");

     cap.setCapability("appPackage", "com.android.chrome");

     cap.setCapability("appActivity", "com.android.chrome");

     driver = new RemoteWebDriver(new URL("http://localhost:4723/wd/hub"), cap);

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

 }

}

What activity should I use then?

[Isaac Murchie]

https://github.com/appium/appium/blob/master/docs/en/writing-running-appium/mobile-web.md#mobile-chrome-on-emulator-or-real-device

[Kirill Zhukov]

Amazing! That works! Thank you, Isaac a lot!!!

One more question if you don't mind :)

There is any webview inspector for browsers except which is included in appium.exe?

Thanks!

[Kirill Zhukov]

Actually I found this extension:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg

So I can switch between different devices and browsers and still to use developer tools. Awesome!

[nitin gupta]

Hi kirill

 

Could you please provide me the code to automate chrome using appium...because i am getting session could not be created ,chromedriver unable to redirect to url error constantly,

Chrome always gets started but it does not redirect to any URL .only data is written in the URL bar.

Any help is appreciated

 

[karthik holla]

Hi,

I am also currently facing the same issue where in I am able to launch chrome successfully but unable to pass the url. 'data;' would be written in the address bar and test fail. Currently I am using emulator with 4.3 version of android. Please provide some advice so as to overcome this issue. Many thanks in advance.

Thanks and regards,
Karthik