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You're reading from Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook Unlock the full potential of Selenium WebDriver to test your web applications in a wide range of situations. The countless recipes and code examples provided ease the learning curve and provide insights into virtually every eventuality.

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2012

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781849515740

Length 326 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Selenium

Concepts

Application Testing

Author (1):

UNMESH GUNDECHA

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Selenium Testing Tools Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

Preface

1. Locating Elements FREE CHAPTER

2. Working with Selenium API

3. Controlling the Test Flow

4. Data-driven Testing

5. Using the Page Object Model

6. Extending Selenium

7. Testing on Mobile Browsers

8. Client-side Performance Testing

9. Testing HTML5 Web Applications

10. Recording Videos of Tests

11. Behavior-driven Development

Index

Setting up the Android device for Selenium

Testing your web application on the Android emulator will definitely help; however, it is also essential to test the application on a real Android device. While the iOS platform and devices such as iPhone and iPad are limited to Apple, Android on the other hand is an open source platform. Android has been widely adopted by mobile phone and tablet manufacturers, such as Samsung, Motorola, LG, and so on, with up to 56 percent market share (September 2011). There are a number of devices available that are running on Android with multiple form factors.

Setting up the Android server APK on a real device is similar to installing it on a simulator. In this recipe, you will see how to configure and install Android server APK on a real Android device. I have used a Samsung Galaxy Smartphone running on Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) for the following example.