RokuTV With Appium

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Appium is a tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid applications on iOS, Android, and Windows platforms. It supports iOS native apps written in Objective-C or Swift and Android native apps written in Java or Kotlin. It also supports mobile web apps accessed using a mobile browser (Appium supports Safari on iOS and Chrome or the built-in 'Browser' app on Android). Perform Appium automation tests on LambdaTest's online cloud.

Learn the basics of Appium testing on the LambdaTest platform.

Table of Contents

• Pre-requisites
• Run Your First Test
• Executing The Tests

Pre-requisites

Setting 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.

Set LambdaTest Username and Access Key in environment variables.

For Linux/macOS:

export LT_USERNAME=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME \
export LT_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY

For Windows:

set LT_USERNAME=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME `
set LT_ACCESS_KEY=YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY

Upload Your Application

Upload your Roku TV application (.zip 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 "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -F "appFile=@"/Users/macuser/Downloads/roku-sample-app.zip"" F "name=roku-sample-app"

Using App URL:

curl -u "YOUR_LAMBDATEST_USERNAME:YOUR_LAMBDATEST_ACCESS_KEY" -X POST "https://manual-api.lambdatest.com/app/upload/realDevice" -F "url=:https://prod-mobile-artefacts.lambdatest.com/assets/docs/roku-sample-app.zip" -F "name=roku-sample-app"

Tip

• If you do not have any .zip file, you can run your sample tests on LambdaTest by using our sample 🔗 RokuTV 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

Run Your First Test

Once you are done with the above-mentioned steps, you can initiate your first rokutv test on LambdaTest.

Test Scenario: Check out the sample_test.py file to view the sample test script.

Configuring Your 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:

    desired_caps = {
        "automationName": "Roku",
        "deviceName" : "Roku Express",    # We also support "Roku Ultra"
        "platformVersion" :  "11",
        "platformName" : "roku",
        "isRealMobile":True,
        "build": "Roku Sample Test",
        "app":"APP_URL",                  # Enter app url here
        "devicelog": True,
        "privateCloud": True,
        "visual" : True
    }

Info Note:

• You must add the generated APP_URL to the "app" capability in the config file.
• You can generate capabilities for your test requirements with the help of our inbuilt Capabilities Generator tool. A more Detailed Capability Guide is available here.

Executing The Tests

1. Install the required packages from the cloned project directory:

pip install -r requirements.txt

2. Run the following command in the directory where your project has been saved to execute your build.

python main.py

Tip

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

Tip

If you fail to run the tests, try creating virtual env and installing the dependencies in that environment to run the tests.

pip3 install virtualenv
virtualenv venv
source venv/bin/activate

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.

Supported Commands

We utilise the Appium Roku Driver to run tests on Roku via Appium, here's a list of all the commands the driver supports from the project's README:

Command	Parameters	Description
roku: pressKey	key	Press the remote key whose value matches key (must be one of the supported key values from the Roku documentation). As addressed in the documentation, Roku TVs also support additioanl keys such as PowerOff and PowerOn.
roku: deviceInfo		Get information about the Roku device
roku: getApps		Get a list of apps installed on the device. The response will be a list of objects with the following keys: id, type, subtype, version, and name.
roku: activeApp		Get information about the active app, in the same format as roku: getApps.
roku: activateApp	appId (required), contentId, mediaType	Launch an app with the corresponding appId. Optionally include contentId and mediaType information (with the same properties as described above for the activateApp command)
roku: selectElement	elementId (required)	Moves the focus on a element having locator xpath as elementId. If it is unable to focus on the element, the driver will respond with a error.
roku: playerState		Get the state of the media player. The data will be returned as a JSON object, corresponding to the information included in the query/media-player ECP result
roku: deepLink	contentId, mediaType	As described in the Roku dev docs, you can deep link into content in the running application using a content ID and media type. For this command, contentId is required, and mediaType defaults to movie and must be one of the valid media types. Note that this command acts on the currently-running app. If you want to test deep-linking into an app that is not launched, use activateApp instead.
roku: ecpInput	params	This command allows calling the /input ECP command directly. An arbitrary set of key/value pairs can be sent in as a JSON object. No url-encoding of the values needs to be done. For example, to represent the parameters in the ECP command POST /input?acceleration.x=0.0&acceleration.y=0.0&acceleration.z=9.8 from the ECP docs, you would construct a params of {"acceleration.x": "0.0", "acceleration.y": "0.0", "acceleration.z": "9.8"}

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• How to integrate LambdaTest with CI/CD

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