Automation Happy Hour 11: YouTube

Back to automation! This week we take a look at one of the most popular and frequently-used apps: YouTube. YouTube allows users to watch videos from all over the Internet. In this episode we get a basic end-to-end video watching flow going.
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Code samples for Automation Happy Hour are available at github.com/appium-pro/ahh

This was one of my favorite Automation Happy Hours, probably because it was so straightforward. We decided to work on automating YouTube. This is a very popular app, and it's also developed by Google, so I was hoping that meant it would have lots of good automation hooks, like accessibility labels and ids. And Google didn't disappoint! Practically everything we needed was available as an ID, a content description (accessibility label), or via unique xpath if we wanted something more complicated (for example, parsing out the number of likes a video had).

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