Testing your React Native App with Expo & Appium —Handling Cross Platform Differences
This is the second post in a series I’ll be making about Appium and how I’m using it to test my React Native app (JiffyCV) within the Expo Client.
You can read my previous post which covers how to set up Appium and how to get it to load your Expo backed React Native app within the Expo Client in order to run automation against it.
In this post I’ll be covering some of the differences I’ve seen between Android and iOS and techniques that can be used to abstract these differences out, providing a single interface to automation easier and cleaner.
Abstracting away complexity with Atomic Page Objects
Atomic Page Objects are those that follow the Atomic Design principles set out by Brad Frost and are a great way of having a clear separation of concerns in your automation code base.
The benefits of this separation of concerns really shines through when dealing with the different locator strategies that you might find yourself using across different devices and when combined with the strategy design pattern you can maintain a clear interface between the atomic levels.
Additionally building Atomic Page Objects may also help expose components in…
