Testing Mobile App in AWS Device Farm using Appium and Node

5 March, 2021 · Reading time: ~7 minute(s) (1364 words) programming javascript react-native aws node

Warning: this post is quite code heavy as I offer our solution as an example At work, we’ve been working on a mobile app for our customers. We’ve been looking at automated testing to interact with the app like a user would on a device and came across Appium and Detox as potential options that wouldn’t cost too much to run. As we primarily worked on Windows machines, Detox was out of the running as it seems to be only guaranteed support on MacOS, so we started looking at Appium instead. (Continue reading)