Appium Interview Questions and Answers

Ques 11. What is the Appium Architecture?

Appium follows a client-server architecture where the Appium server is the middleware that connects the client (test script) to the mobile device.

Ques 12. How do you handle hybrid mobile applications in Appium?

For hybrid apps, you can use a combination of native and web context switching using the context method.

Example:

driver.context("WEBVIEW_com.package.name");

Ques 13. Explain the concept of Implicit and Explicit Waits in Appium.

Implicit waits instruct Appium to wait for a certain amount of time before throwing an exception, while explicit waits are used for specific conditions.

Example:

WebDriverWait wait = new WebDriverWait(driver, 10);

Ques 14. How can you capture screenshots in Appium?

You can use the TakesScreenshot interface to capture screenshots in Appium.

Example:

File screenshot = ((TakesScreenshot)driver).getScreenshotAs(OutputType.FILE);

Ques 15. What is the Appium Desktop?

Appium Desktop is a graphical frontend for Appium that provides a visual way to run Appium server, inspect elements, and run tests.