Enterprise Mobile DevOps and App Testing
Dear Testdroiders,
As many of you probably know Robotium was one of the first mobile test automation frameworks that was supported by Testdroid products. In addition, many of you have started with and actually got the first touch in mobile test automation using this framework, we’re honored to announce that Robotium Extension Solo library – also known as Robotium ExtSolo – is now open source and fully available at Github.
With the rollout of Android Oreo, Google’s mobile ecosystem continues to expand rapidly. It is evident that new mobile OEMs are emerging in every corner of the world, bringing in different screen sizes, ROM/firmware, chipsets, etc. The complexity of Android app testing has been growing all the time.
To cope with increasing testing workload, it has become a common practice to rely on a cloud-based Android app testing solution to automate scripted tests on a large scale of real devices for extensive QA. Though there are multiple choices on Android testing frameworks, it’s critical to understand the basics and how each framework performs so the selected tool can help you meet your testing needs and ultimately achieve your business goals.
Today we are going to behold 5 most used Android testing frameworks and break down the basics and code examples of each. Should you be working on iOS apps at the same time, you can also check out top 5 iOS test automation frameworks with code examples here.
Dear Testdroiders,
We’re announcing today a free of charge Testdroid Recorder. Starting from today, you don’t need to buy a license for Testdroid Recorder anymore but it is now available from the Eclipse Marketplace (and Testdroid update site) and requires no license for its use. This great tool will provide you a way to generate Robotium based scripts for your Android apps and games. And, we’re supporting Android L, Unity3D and many other things with it! What a great tool for Android game, app and service developers!
In many cases, your top priority in mobile app testing is probably functional testing, compatibility testing and UI testing. To some mobile app developers, however, the major concern in app testing is to guarantee the top performance of their apps on mobile devices that are located in various countries. Today, we are going to walk you through how to mock the locations of devices within Testdroid Recorder.
Any part of your mobile app that has a potential to change when users interact with it should be seriously tested before the app goes out for public. Naturally, there are several ways to enable efficient testing of those parts and one thing to consider for your mobile app development process is the data-driven testing (aka DDT).
Every dog has its day and in this case, every blog too. We decided the last blog in our well-read series, Deconstructing Mobile Testing Methods, would end with the list of all lists and would be your raison d’etre or making money and getting those 100M plus downloads on your app.
So far we covered The Pros and Cons of Different Mobile Testing Methods, Using Twitter App as an Example: How to Build Robust and Reliable Automated Tests, our most popular in the series, Advanced Automated Testing as Part of Your Development Work, Goodbye Hand-Written Test Cases! and now our crowning jewel, Getting The Best Out of Today’s Android Testing Tools.
Since the dawn of time, humans have always been toolmakers. When we are faced with a problem, trivial or repeatable issue, we tend to seek out a tool that helps us overcome that pesky dilemma. If you think about it, many of the issues we face in software development aren’t very different and for us here at Bitbar, we like the fact that we create tools for humans to solve problems and make automated testing easier (and trivial).
A solid example of the man and tool paradigm is Testdroid Recorder. A trivial task and not necessarily so difficult to do by handwriting gets done automatically with Testdroid Recorder. The most significant difference is that handwriting that test case could easily take days, even weeks. But with Testdroid Recorder, the very same functionality gets recorded, tested and played back in minutes. This tool really does all the heavy lifting for you instantly with no need to reinvent the ancient and still used today, pulley!
The Google Play has become an overwhelming distribution channel for developers building their next-big-things, either in forms of applications, games or even services. This ever-expanding marketplace gives developers a global reach and target coverage of hundreds of different Android devices on a rapidly growing and changing platform.
However, due to variety in Android OS/platform versions, fragmentation does exist. Android fragmentation is known to cause multiple and incompatible versions of the system specific to the OEM and that causes applications and games to work differently (or wrongly) on many Android devices.
Before we start, please download the latest version of Testdroid Recorder and install it in Eclipse. Here you will find instruction how to do it. Restart your IDE and start testing your application.
We will use Instagram application as an example to show how to use Testdroid Recorder and how it works with market applications. Let’s start 🙂
We are proud to announce that Testdroid Recorder is now officially out from Beta. The production version includes numerous new features, usability improvements and a lot of bug fixes.
The feature highlights of Testdroid Recorder 1.0 are:
