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Fire TV With Appium

Tutorial To Run Your First Test On LambdaTest​

In this topic, you will learn how to configure and run your Fire TV automation testing scripts with Appium on LambdaTest Real Device Cloud platform.

Objective​

By the end of this topic, you will be able to:

  1. Set up an environment for testing your Apps using Fire TV with Appium.
  2. Understand and configure the core capabilities required for your Appium test suite.
  3. Explore the advanced features of LambdaTest.
Sample repo

All the code samples in this documentation can be found on LambdaTest's Github Repository. You can either download or clone the repository to quickly run your tests. Image View on GitHub

Prerequisites​

Before you can start performing App automation testing with Appium, you would need to follow these steps:

  • You have access to LambdaTest username and accessKey. If you have not registered yet, you can do the same by visiting our website. You will be able to access the credentials in the LambdaTest Profile
  • Install the latest Python build from the official website. We recommend using the latest version.
  • Make sure pip is installed in your system. You can install pip from pip documentation.

Run your first test​

1. Upload your application​

Upload your Fire TV application (.apk file) to the LambdaTest servers using our REST API. You need to provide your Username and AccessKey in the format Username:AccessKey in the cURL command for authentication. Make sure to add the path of the appFile in the cURL request. Here is an example cURL request to upload your app using our REST API:

Using App File from System:

curl -u "undefined:undefined" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -F "appFile=@"/Users/macuser/Downloads/fireos-sample-app.apk"" -F "name="fireos_app""
tip
  • If you do not have any .apk file, you can run your sample tests on LambdaTest by using our sample 🔗 FireTV app.
  • Response of above cURL will be a JSON object containing the APP_URL of the format - lt://APP123456789123456789 and will be used in the next step.

2. Clone the sample project​

  1. Clone the LambdaTest’s LT-appium-firetv and navigate to the code directory as shown below:
git clone https://github.com/LambdaTest/LT-appium-firetv
cd LT-appium-firetv

3. Set up your authentication​

Make sure you have your LambdaTest credentials with you to run test automation scripts on LambdaTest. To obtain your access credentials, purchase a plan or access the Automation Dashboard. Then, set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables with following commands.

export LT_USERNAME=undefined \
export LT_ACCESS_KEY=undefined

4. Write your automation script​

An automation script for the sample application available above has been provided below. Ensure to update the APP_URL, username and accessKey in the code scripts before running the tests.

firetv.py
from xml.dom.expatbuilder import Rejecter
from appium import webdriver
from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
import time


def getCaps():
    desired_cap= {
        "deviceName" : "Amazon Fire TV Stick",
        "platformVersion" :  "7",
        "platformName":"fireos",
        "isRealMobile":True,
        "build": "firetv",
        "video": True,
        "app":"APP_URL",  #Add app url here
        "network": False,
        "geoLocation": "RU",
        "devicelog": True,
        "visual":True
    }

    return desired_cap

def runTest():
    username = "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME"           #Add your username here
    accessToken = "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESSKEY"       #Add your accessKey here

    gridUrl = "mobile-hub-internal.lambdatest.com/wd/hub"

    # capabilities
    desired_cap = getCaps()
    url = "http://"+username+":"+accessToken+"@"+gridUrl

    print("Initiating remote driver on platform: " +
          desired_cap["deviceName"]+" browser: "+" version: "+desired_cap["platformVersion"])

    start = time.time()
    driver = webdriver.Remote(
        desired_capabilities=desired_cap,
        command_executor=url
    )

    # run test
    print(driver.session_id)
    time.sleep(10)

    inputfield = driver.find_element(by = By.ID, value ="enterText")
    inputfield.send_keys("https://ifconfig.me")

    time.sleep(2)

    inputfield = driver.find_element(by = By.ID, value ="JustAButton")
    inputfield.click()

    time.sleep(10)
    list2 = driver.find_element(by= By.XPATH, value="//*[@resource-id='ip_address_cell']")
    print(list2.text)

    time.sleep(50)

    driver.execute_script("lambda-status=passed")

    driver.quit()
    end = time.time()

    print("time taken: ", end - start)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    runTest()

Configure the test capabilities​

You can update your custom capabilities in test scripts. In this sample project, we are passing platform name, platform version, device name and app url (generated earlier) along with other capabilities like build name and test name via capabilities object. The capabilities object in the sample code are defined as:

Supported Model:

  • Device: "Amazon Fire TV Stick" ; OS Version:"7"

Supported Capabilities: Same as Android.

Platform: "fireos"

firetv.py
def getCaps():
    desired_cap= {
        "deviceName" : "Amazon Fire TV Stick",
        "platformVersion" :  "7",
        "platformName":"fireos",
        "isRealMobile":True,
        "build": "firetv",
        "video": True,
        "app":"APP_URL",  #Add app url here
        "network": False,
        "geoLocation": "RU",
        "devicelog": True,
        "visual":True
    }
Note

5. Execute your test case​

  1. Install the required packages from the cloned project directory:
pip install -r requirements.txt
  1. Run the following command in the directory where your project has been saved to execute your build.
python firetv.py
tip

If you are unable to run the automation script with the above mentioned commands try 'python3' command except for 'python'.

Your test results would be displayed on the test console (or command-line interface if you are using terminal/cmd) and on the LambdaTest App Automation Dashboard.

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