# Elevate Mobile Testing: Automating iOS Testing on Sauce Labs with Cucumber and Appium  

Software testing can often feel like drilling into stone, especially when working with mobile platforms like iOS. If youre looking for a way to seamlessly incorporate automation, scalability, and efficiency into your iOS testing process, Sauce Labs, Cucumber, and Appium provide a trifecta of innovation. By setting these up together, you can create robust iOS automation frameworks. Lets break down how you can harness this power step-by-step.  

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## Why Combine Sauce Labs, Cucumber, and Appium?  

This powerful trio creates a seamless testing experience:  
1. **Sauce Labs** unlocks cloud-based testing environments with a variety of iOS devices readily available, eliminating the need to maintain physical hardware.  
2. **Cucumber** ensures readability through Behavior-Driven Development (BDD), allowing both technical and non-technical stakeholders to understand test scenarios.  
3. **Appium** provides cross-platform automation, making it the go-to framework for running tests on native, hybrid, or mobile web apps.  

Together, they establish a scalable, efficient, and collaborative solution for iOS testing.  

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## Prerequisites  

Before we dive into the setup, ensure that the following are in place:  
- An active **Sauce Labs** account.  
- **Appium** installed on your machine (`npm install -g appium`).  
- **Cucumber.js** installed globally (`npm install -g cucumber`).  
- iOS app ready for testing (e.g., `.ipa` file).  
- Access to an IDE like Visual Studio Code or IntelliJ IDEA.  
- Node.js installed on your machine.  

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## Step 1: Initialize Your Project  

1. **Create a new Node.js project**:  
   ```bash  
   mkdir ios-automation && cd ios-automation  
   npm init -y  
   ```  

2. **Install dependencies**:  
   Install Cucumber, Appium, and essential libraries.  
   ```bash  
   npm install cucumber appium appium-wait-driver chai wd --save-dev  
   ```  

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## Step 2: Sauce Labs Integration  

To leverage Sauce Labs cloud platform:  

1. **Set the environment variables** for authentication:  
   ```bash  
   export SAUCE_USERNAME=<your-sauce-username>  
   export SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY=<your-access-key>  
   ```  

2. **Configure the desired capabilities** for Sauce Labs in a `capabilities.js` file:  
   ```javascript  
   module.exports = {  
       platformName: iOS,  
       browserName: ,  
       app: sauce-storage:your_ios_app.ipa, // Upload your app to Sauce Labs storage  
       deviceName: iPhone 14 Pro Max Simulator,  
       platformVersion: 16.2,  
       automationName: XCUITest,  
       build: iOS Automation - Cucumber,  
   };  
   ```  
   Be sure to upload your `.ipa` file to Sauce Labs and use the resulting app reference in the `app` field.  

3. **Configure Appium to use Sauce Labs** in your `appium-config.js` file:  
   ```javascript  
   const wd = require(wd);  
   const capabilities = require(./capabilities);  

   const driver = wd.promiseChainRemote(https://ondemand.us-west-1.saucelabs.com/wd/hub, {  
       username: process.env.SAUCE_USERNAME,  
       accessKey: process.env.SAUCE_ACCESS_KEY,  
   });  

   module.exports = async () => {  
       await driver.init(capabilities);  
       return driver;  
   };  
   ```  

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## Step 3: Create Cucumber Feature Files  

Cucumber uses `.feature` files to define behavior-driven scenarios:  

1. Create the `features/example.feature` file:  
   ```  
   Feature: Login functionality testing  

   Scenario: User logs in successfully  
       Given the app is launched  
       When the user enters valid credentials  
       And the user taps the login button  
       Then the home screen is displayed  
   ```  

2. Bind these steps to step definitions by creating `step_definitions/example_steps.js`:  
   ```javascript  
   const { Given, When, Then } = require(@cucumber/cucumber);  
   const appiumConfig = require(../appium-config);  

   let driver;  

   Given(the app is launched, async () => {  
       driver = await appiumConfig();  
   });  

   When(the user enters valid credentials, async () => {  
       await driver.setValue(accessibility id:username, testuser);  
       await driver.setValue(accessibility id:password, testpass);  
   });  

   When(the user taps the login button, async () => {  
       await driver.click(accessibility id:login);  
   });  

   Then(the home screen is displayed, async () => {  
       const isHomeScreenVisible = await driver.isDisplayed(accessibility id:home-screen);  
       if (!isHomeScreenVisible) throw new Error(Home screen not displayed);  
   });  
   ```  

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## Step 4: Run Your Tests  

1. Start Appium server:  
   ```bash  
   appium --address 0.0.0.0 --port 4723  
   ```  

2. Execute Cucumber tests using:  
   ```bash  
   npx cucumber-js features/example.feature  
   ```  

Youll notice that the test runs against the Sauce Labs platform, and results appear via Sauce Labs intuitive dashboard with detailed logs and video recordings of test execution.  

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