Using Testcafe with Appium

Question

I'm searching for some time now how to use TestCafe with Appium.

Long story short: testing env is a node.js env; automated test script is written in typescript using TestCafe; the plan is to execute those tests on desktop browsers and on mobile phones.

Desktop browsers: this is covered trough TestCafe and testcafe-browser-provider-selenium and a Selenium grid server.

Mobile phones: I'm trying to cover this by executing tests on mobiles phones using TestCafe along with Appium.

Here, the documentation is not easy to find, and I had no luck in doing any progress. I'm interested what do I need to do from Testcafes side, because inside LAN, I can access an already running Appium server, with real devices attached to it.

Is there someone who uses the above tools and would like to share the know how?

PS: I've seen this link already, and it's not helping, as it needs human interaction and it's not fully automated: QR code suggestion for TestCafe mobile device testing

Later edit:

using the testcafe-browser-provider-webdriverio package did not solve the problem, because it has some connections issues. So, I'm back on searching a solution and I refuse to believe that there is no option for the above scenario...

Chalmers

Answer 1

You can try testcafe-browser-provider-webdriverio plugin. The author claims this provider can connect to an Appium server.

Lexeme

I did tried out the package you pointed out, but it has some issues from what I see. Thanks again. – Chalmers

Later edit: it seems that this plugin does the job perfectly, meaning it allows testcafe to connect to an appium server. – Chalmers

@Eugen: please guide me about exact string which worked for you, like: testcafe webdriverio:chrome:android:emulator-5554 my_first_test.js – Pompadour

@SaurabhShrivastava, sorry, but I stopped working with testcafe for one year at least. I completely forgot what I did in there. – Chalmers