Baseclass DesiredCapabilities

rickesnick · February 1, 2017, 1:21pm

Hi.

So my test suite always starts with me logging into my app. My question is if it’s good practise to create a baseclass that includes all DesiredCapabilities and the loggin function to avoid code duplication.
Ive followed a few guides to create a baseclass but I feel like I’m missing something since I always get a null pointer exception. Does anyone have a code example to share how to deal with this when writing in a page objected way together with pagefactory. Android & Java.

Appreciate all help

Aleksei · February 1, 2017, 1:52pm

DesiredCapabilities - suggest to use with testNG or junit. e.g. with testNG open driver in beforeMethod class.
test structure with java Google Page Object is best for me. example -> see here https://github.com/appium/java-client/tree/master/src/test/java/io/appium/java_client/pagefactory_tests

rickesnick · February 1, 2017, 3:30pm

Im using testNG currently. That test structure you linked , is he using a baseclass of some sorts? I really cant find it, thanks for help

leppo · February 1, 2017, 5:14pm

It looks like some test classes extend BaseAndroidTest where the capabilities are read:

github.com

appium/java-client/blob/master/src/test/java/io/appium/java_client/android/BaseAndroidTest.java

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package io.appium.java_client.android;

import io.appium.java_client.remote.AutomationName;
import io.appium.java_client.remote.MobileCapabilityType;

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