閒著沒事，就搭建了一下appium的環境，玩了一下，下面是具體過程，有需要的朋友可以參考。

其實流程官網上都有，這裡就把它摘出來，使其連貫。

下載原始碼：

git clone git://github.com/appium/appium

安裝Node.js

Setup with Ubuntu:

curl --silent --location https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_0.12 | sudo bash -

Then install with Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install --yes nodejs

可是不用sudo安裝的時候很多系統資料夾都沒法訪問，那就切換到root使用者下。

(個人猜想，這裡可能是用到了一些root使用者下的環境變數，要不然這兩者之間也沒什麼大的差別，用sudo雖然許可權有了，但還是用的原先的環境變數)。

Android Setup

To get started, you’ll need to install node.js (v0.10 or greater). Justfollow the instructions for your flavor of linux.

Once you’ve got node.js installed, install the Android SDK.You will need to run the ‘android’ tool (included in the SDK, under the ‘tools’ directory).
 

既然是拿來測試APP，那自然是需要安裝SDK的，現在google被牆，官網是下不了，給大家一個地址：http://www.androiddevtools.cn/

關於SDK環境變數之類的設定這裡就不多說了。

Run the ‘android’ tool and use it to install an API Level 17 or greater.

這裡限定了你的Android API版本，必須是API Level 17以上。

(If you want to run Appium from source, you will also need Apache Ant to build the bootstrap jar that Appium uses for running against Android simulators/devices.)
 

下載好Ant後，我們需要去SetUp(以下摘至Apache Ant Manual)

Before you can run Ant there is some additional set up youwill need to do unless you are installing the RPMversion from jpackage.org:

    Add the bin directory to your path.
    Set the ANT_HOME environment variable to thedirectory where you installed Ant. On some operating systems, Ant'sstartup scripts can guess ANT_HOME (Unix dialects andWindows NT/2000), but it is better to not rely on this behavior.
    Optionally, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable(see the Advanced section below).This should be set to the directory where your JDK is installed.

Operating System-specific instructions for doing this from the commandline are in the Windows, Linux/Unix (bash),and Linux/Unix (csh) sections. Note that using this method,the settings will only be valid for the command line session you run them in.

Note: Do not install Ant's ant.jar file into the lib/extdirectory of the JDK/JRE. Ant is an application, whilst the extensiondirectory is intended for JDK extensions. In particular there are securityrestrictions on the classes which may be loaded by an extension.

說的很清楚，把下載好的bin檔案放到你自己想要放的路徑，新增環境變數ANT_HOME(這裡說下最好把這些環境變數放到系統配置檔案中，比如/etc/profile，這樣所有使用者都可以使用)

Assume Ant is installed in /usr/local/ant. The following sets upthe environment:

export ANT_HOME=/usr/local/ant
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/local/jdk1.7.0_51
export PATH=${PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin

Finally, set $ANDROID_HOME to be your Android SDK path. If you unzipped theAndroid SDK to /usr/local/adt/, for example, you should add this to yourshell startup:

export ANDROID_HOME=“/usr/local/adt/sdk”

Now you’re set up to run Appium! If you’re running Appium from source, run./reset.sh --android from your Appium checkout to install all thedependencies.

最後去你的原始碼目錄下，執行./reset.sh --android。到此為止，你的Appium Server就可以啟動了。

Appium的設計理念是client/server這種框架形式，那麼server好了，是不是得準備client了。

這時就看到Appium的強大之處，竟然支援那麼多language，可以隨意選擇自己擅長的。

git clone [email protected]/appium/python-client.git
cd python-client
python setup.py install