Mobile Automation testing Tools

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1.Robotium

 1)Overview

• Supporting platforms: Android
• Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automaticblack-boxtest cases for Android applications.
• With the support of Robotium, test case developers can write function, system and acceptance test scenarios, spanning multiple Android activities.
• Robotium has full support for Activities, Dialogs, Toasts, Menus and Context Menus.

2)How to Install Robotium:

• Add the robotium-solo.jar, robotium-solo-javadoc.jar to the build path of your test project.
• Eg:In Eclipse that is done by right clicking on the test project --> Properties --> Java Build Path --> Add (external) Jar.

3)Robotium’s Limitations

• Robotium cannot support to test flash and web applications
• Robotium API is process-oriented instead of object-oriented
• Tied to one app process

2.TMTS(Taobao Mobile Test System)

1)Overview

• Supporting platforms: Android and iOS
• TMTS is a lightweight open source test automation framework developed by TaoBao
• TMTS provides an easy way to perform UI automated testing.
• TMTS API is object-oriented.

2)How to Install TMTS

• It is as the same as Robotium, you just need to add the tmts.jar to the build path of your test project.
• If you want to see the source code, you can import the tmtsjava project as a dependent project of your test project.

PS: check out code from http://code.taobao.org/svn/TMTS/trunk/android/tmtsjava

3) TMTS Limitations

• It is not a mature framework
• There is no reasonable timeout mechanism
• It cannot support flash testing

3. Selenium WebDriver ( Android Driver, iPhone Driver)

1)Overview

• Supporting platforms: Android and iOS.
• WebDriver is a tool for automating web application testing.
• WebDriver is not tied to any particular test framework, so it can be used equally well in a unit testing or from a plain old “main” method
• Android and iOS drivers both use the RemoteWebDriver. They can be run on both emulator and real device.

2)There are two options available to run Android WebDriver tests:

l  Using the Android test framework

l  Using the remote WebDriver server

How to Install Android Test Framework

• Download Android WebDriver, which is an SDK extra.
• Steps: Open the Android SDK manager —> Available packages → Extras → Google → WebDriver

How to Install Remote Selenium Server

• This approach has:
• Client ——Consist of your typical Junit tests
• Server ——WebDriver  APK

3)Selenium WebDriver Limitations

• Selenium WebDriver cannot support to test flash

4.EggPlant

1)Overview

• EggPlant delivers a robotic solution to mobile testing across all operating systems and devices.
• Using RealVNC, generic VNC or emulators, eggPlant deploys patented intelligentimage recognitiontechnology to see any device display. This approach to test automation is easy to use, non-invasive and requires no special hardware.
• EggPlant supports flash testing

2)How to Install EggPlant

• Install EggPlant in your control machine.
• Install a VNC viewer on your control machine
• Install a VNC server on your system-under-test (SUT)

3)Eggplant’s Limitations

• EggPlant is not a free tool
• Eggplant is not an independent tool. It must depend on VNC to use
• The scripts is not very flexible and its maintenance costs a lot.

 

Mobile Tools Comparison