Appium Ecosystem-Tools — Complete Details of ‘Appium Doctor’

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Step By Step explanation on “Appium Doctor”:

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Topic-1:

What is Appium Doctor:

1.Appium Doctor is a command-line tool.

2.Used to diagnose and fix common Appium configuration issues

3.Used to validate whether a driver or plugin has all of its prerequisites and other environment details set up correctly.

Topic-2:

Install Appium-Doctor:

npm install appium-doctor –g

Note:

The -g flag indicates that this package is installed globally, and you do not need to install it in each project individually.

Topic-3:

To verify the installation of Appium Doctor:

appium-doctor — version

Topic-4:

Appium Doctor is to assist users with driver or plugin preconditions setup.

appium driver doctor <driver_name> or appium plugin doctor <plugin_name>

For example:

appium driver doctor uiautomator2 (for drivers) / appium-windows-driver

List of Options in Appium Doctor:

appium-doctor — h

-verifying dependencies within a specific test environment before embarking on test automation

– — ios and — — android:

These options allow you to specify whether you want to check the setup for iOS or Android testing.

For example, you can use appium-doctor –ios to focus on iOS-related configurations, and

appium-doctor –android to focus on Android-related configurations.

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