Test classes

Writing UI tests should be simple and easy.

Legerity exposes an AppManager that is a lightweight wrapper for the application driver that allows you to start your applications using a configuration object.

Using your testing framework of choice, getting your application started in the appropriate Selenium driver is as simple as calling AppManager.StartApp() passing through an AppManagerOptions configuration object for the platform you want to run your tests on.

Using the Legerity base test class

To make this easier for you, Legerity provides a LegerityTestClass class that you can inherit from in your test classes to start the application.

The base test class is designed to manage the AppManager lifecycle for you, so you only have to call the StartApp and StopApp methods from the setup and teardown methods of your test class.

This is made possible by the AppManagerOptions object that you pass through to the LegerityTestClass constructor.

public class MyTests : LegerityTestClass
{
    public MyTests() 
        : base(new AndroidAppManagerOptions
            {
                AppId = AndroidApplication,
                AppActivity = AndroidApplicationActivity,
                DriverUri = "http://localhost:4723/wd/hub",
                LaunchAppiumServer = false,
                ImplicitWait = ImplicitWait,
            })
    {
    }

    [SetUp]
    public void SetUp()
    {
        this.StartApp();
    }

    [TearDown]
    public void TearDown()
    {
        this.StopApp();
    }
}

Taking advantage of the constructor in the LegerityTestClass class, you can also use techniques with your testing framework of choice to pass through configuration values to your test classes as a source, allowing you to run the same tests across multiple browsers or platforms.

To understand more about the AppManagerOptions object, read through our App Manager documentation.