Edit this Doc The Mac Driver for OS X
Appium has beta support for automation of OS X desktop applications. Development of this driver happens at the appium-mac-driver, and relies on a native OS X binary called AppiumForMac.
Requirements and Support
(In addition to Appium's general requirements)
- Mac OS X 10.7
- The AppiumForMac helper application downloaded and installed (see below)
Usage
The way to start a session using the Mac driver is to include the
platformName
capability in your new session request, with
the value Mac
. Also, ensure that you set the deviceName
capability to Mac
as well. Of course, you must also include appropriate platformVersion
and
app
capabilities, at a minimum.
Getting AppiumForMac
Currently, this driver does not ship with the AppiumForMac binary, which means, in order to automate Mac apps you must manually install the AppiumForMac application and grant it the appropriate OS X Accessibility permissions.
To Install Appium for Mac:
1. Download
a release and
unzip the application into your /Applications
folder
2. Follow the brief supplemental installation
instructions to
enable Appium to have access to OS X's Accessibility APIs
(For more information on using AppiumForMac, check out the docs)