Project Brief — Test Suite for a Banking Mobile App

You have spent six chapters building up every skill needed to automate a real mobile app. Now you bring them all together. This capstone project asks you to build a complete, production-quality Appium test suite for a banking mobile application — end to end, with proper structure, cross-platform coverage, and CI integration.

The app: FinanceApp

The capstone uses the FinanceApp demo, a fully functional banking app designed specifically for Appium practice. It is available on GitHub as a free open-source test target.

Android: Download FinanceApp-debug.apk from the course resources.
iOS: Download FinanceApp.app (Simulator) from the course resources.

FinanceApp has the features a real banking app would have:

Login with email and password (and biometric toggle)
Account dashboard with balance, recent transactions
Transfer money between accounts
Bill payment with payee management
Account statements (WebView)
Profile and settings

What you will build

A Maven project with the following structure:

financeapp-tests/
├── pom.xml
├── testng.xml
├── testng-parallel.xml
├── .github/workflows/android-tests.yml
└── src/test/java/com/qa/
    ├── base/
    │   └── BaseTest.java
    ├── pages/
    │   ├── LoginPage.java
    │   ├── DashboardPage.java
    │   ├── TransferPage.java
    │   ├── BillPaymentPage.java
    │   └── StatementsPage.java
    ├── tests/
    │   ├── LoginTest.java
    │   ├── DashboardTest.java
    │   ├── TransferTest.java
    │   ├── BillPaymentTest.java
    │   └── StatementsTest.java
    └── utils/
        ├── DriverFactory.java
        └── WaitUtils.java

Test scope

Module 1: Authentication (LoginTest.java)

Test	Scenario	Tags
`validLoginAndroid`	Login with correct credentials on Android	smoke
`validLoginIOS`	Login with correct credentials on iOS	smoke
`invalidPasswordShowsError`	Wrong password shows error message	regression
`emptyEmailShowsValidation`	Submit with empty email shows inline error	regression
`sessionPersistsAfterBackground`	Background app for 10s, foreground, still logged in	regression
`logoutClearsSession`	Logout, relaunch, lands on login screen	regression

Module 2: Dashboard (DashboardTest.java)

Test	Scenario	Tags
`balanceDisplayed`	Account balance visible after login	smoke
`recentTransactionsLoaded`	At least 3 recent transactions shown	smoke
`transactionTapShowsDetail`	Tap transaction item opens detail screen	regression

Module 3: Transfer (TransferTest.java)

Test	Scenario	Tags
`successfulTransfer`	Transfer $10 from Checking to Savings	smoke
`insufficientFundsError`	Transfer more than balance shows error	regression
`decimalAmountAccepted`	$10.50 transfer processes correctly	regression
`transferConfirmationRequired`	Confirmation dialog appears before transfer	regression

Module 4: Statements (StatementsTest.java)

Test	Scenario	Tags
`statementsLoadInWebView`	Statements page loads HTML table in WebView	smoke
`transactionRowsPresent`	Statement table has at least one row	smoke
`returnToNativeAfterStatements`	Back button returns to native dashboard	regression

Acceptance criteria

Your submission must meet all of these:

All 16 tests pass on an Android emulator running API 34
Page Object Model — no findElement calls in test classes
Explicit waits — no Thread.sleep() anywhere in the code
Cross-platform — at least the 2 smoke login tests run on both Android and iOS using the same test class
CI workflow — the GitHub Actions file starts the emulator, runs smoke tests, and uploads surefire results
Screenshot on failure — @AfterMethod captures and saves screenshots for failed tests
Context switching — the StatementsTest correctly switches to WEBVIEW context

Technical requirements

Java 11 or later
Maven
TestNG with testng.xml for smoke and testng-parallel.xml for regression (parallel="methods", thread-count=3)
Appium Java Client 9.x

Getting started

Clone the FinanceApp repository from the course resources page
Install the APK on your emulator: adb install FinanceApp-debug.apk
Open FinanceApp in Appium Inspector and map all the locators you'll need
Build your DriverFactory and BaseTest first — get a driver connecting before writing any page objects
Write LoginPage and LoginTest — the simplest flow — before tackling the other modules

The walkthrough in the next lesson guides you through every module step by step.