How can i automate Android Apis for better quality ? How can i test the android applications to get a better quality of this software..?
I would recommend you checkout Robolectric for testing Android apps.
Use Robotium, its a good tool to use for Android Automation
http://www.robotium.org/
Try robotium, i am using it, Its very easy for writing your Functional Test Cases and can be tested in all android Devices.
Espresso is the best option coming forward to automate the android API's. Google has developed this testing kit for developers to write the unit test cases. Here's the Google's home page for espresso
https://code.google.com/p/android-test-kit/wiki/EspressoStartGuide
Google has also implemented the sample test cases which help to learn espresso faster. Main advantage of espresso is its speed of execution and its work asynchronously meaning we are not explicitly required to write wait for actions in espresso. Developer should only perform action, waiting time taken care by espresso.
Here's link which gives start to espresso in easy to understand way:
http://www.stevenmarkford.com/android-ui-testing-with-espresso-basics-tutorial/
I would suggest you to use Seetest.
This is also an automation tool independent of any platform. You can run the same test script across all the platforms like Android, IPhone, Windows Phone using this tool. Moreover it has a plugin for existing test frameworks like QTP, Testcomplete etc. Here is the link to download the trial version of the same.
http://experitest.com/support/download-2/
I would suggest Webdriver/ selenium 2.0 android driver if you are looking for open source. its good and robust as well
Try bot-bot. Its a functional automation tool built over Robotium/Nativedriver. It have recording feature which helps in easy element identification and writing test-cases.
It uses "Ant" for build and running the tests. This helps in integration with continuous integration tools.
At the end of your test execution it generates emailable html reports with pass-fail status.
If you have a spare Raspberry-Pi, you can also use that to speedup your test :) , much better than running on Emulator:
Raspberry-PI for Android Test Automation
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I want to automate an Android app using Google firebase test lab. I came to know that there are 2 tools with which we can do this.
Espresso & UI Automator: To use Espresso we need the App source code, but while reading some articles I came to know that we doesn't need App source code for UI Automator. I have even tried to use app source code of an hybrid app and found that there is only one element for App and not able to proceed.
Can someone help me how to automate an android app using UI Automator without app source code. I have my apk with me and not able to find any solution to run automation scripts using it.
The only way to automate android APK without source code is to use Selenium WebDriver, Appium or some similar framework, especially when it is not a native application.
For native applications, I strongly suggest to use Espresso.
I'm brand new to Mobile application automation. So, I did a research for selecting a good automation tool for test Android applications.
I need a tool with following requirements
Functional testing
UI testing for different devices, different Android versions
Can write scripts using Java
According to my reading Appium is the best option for functional testing. Can someone give a comment about the best testing tool to cover both functional and UI testing.
Thanks in advance. :)
Appium is a cross-platform tool and works for hybrid as well as native apps where as MonkeyTalk doesn't support hybrid apps.
I am developing a mobile android app. What are the most common libraries/frameworks used for Android unit testing? I feel that most of the business logic, database testing, Web services testing can all be done using JUnit.
However, what's the best approach for testing UI, the UI workflow, etc? For example, how can we test if the Android app launches a web browser successfully? Or how can we confirm if buttons, certain things are pressed successfully? Or if images are loaded successfully?
I use JUnit for unit testing and Robolectric for instrumentation tests.
This article shows you a Hello World example with Robolectric
In recent times, I have been researching about integration testing in Android using Arquillian Droidium.
If you want to test some code that consumes a REST API, you can mock it with WireMock. With this library, you can mock REST APIs by code or even deploy a mock HTTP server in your own machine and set up your own mocked mappings.
For REST API mocks, I also recommend you to use Mockable.io.
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The Android documentation has a topical series called Best Practices for Testing. I would start there.
Local Unit Tests and Instrumented Tests are set up by default when you start a new project. The general advice given is to use the local unit tests whenever possible. Sometimes this requires mocking an object that uses the Android API. The documentation recommends using Mockito in these cases. When UI tests (instrumented tests) need to be done, Android provides the Espresso framework. There are also other tools available, like the Exerciser Monkey (for stress testing) and UI Automator (for testing multiple app interaction).
Example
See this answer for how to get started with tests in Android Studio.
There is a guide for automated user interface testing on the Android Developers Website. I haven't tried it but it looks like what you've been looking for.
I'm currently looking for a solution to test Android Apps automatically, native Android apps as well as hybrid Cordova/Phonegap apps.
The UI Automator from Google looks pretty fine, but can not deal with WebViews, which makes it unusable for me.
Then I found the promising automation framework Appium based on Selenium, which should also be able to deal with hybrid apps, but I couldn't get it to work with WebViews, it seems to not be implemented fully yet, as also several posts prove.
After trying Appium I found a hint for Selendroid, that also should work for hybrid apps, but it seems pretty much buggy and keeps crashing my whole computer all the time.
So, does anyone here know a working solution for testing Android Apps with WebViews? I'm working on Windows 7. Thanks a lot in advance for any help.
In first case we need to know what kind of tests you like to drive. I think you like to run functional tests on the UI? Thats what i can think about after reading your question.
So lets split this by the given environment:
native iOS
unit tests -> do it in xCode. http://www.apple.com
functionality tests -> http://appium.io/
native Android
unit tests -> JUnit, http://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_android.html
functionality tests -> http://selendroid.io/
native Web like phonegap/cordova Apps
unit tests -> jsUnit, http://jsunit.berlios.de/
QA Testing and Checkstyle -> jsHint/jsLint, http://www.jshint.com/ & http://www.jslint.com/
functionality tests -> http://docs.seleniumhq.org/ & https://npmjs.org/package/ripple-
functionality tests (E2E) -> https://angular.github.io/protractor/#/ or https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine
Here is a article about JavaScript QA / QS
native X - The out of the Box solution for all Platforms
Here we are. There is none atm. But .. footage is that one here:
Gappium based on appium uses json for writing your tests. As i get the thread right, it was testet with Web/iOS for this moment. Android/Win seems not be integrated for this moment:
https://github.com/appium/io.appium.gappium.sampleapp
Note for phonegap & apache cordova functional tests:
Its possible to use ripple and selenium for testing hybrid apps. Keep in mind that some native function/plugins (hehe native functions on hybrid apps ... =) cant be tested or need to be mocked on a unknown way. Thats the footage for this moment.
Maybe usefull for you Continous Integration Server:
https://github.com/linslin/PHPUnit-selenium-HTMLGallery
Generally, testing hybrid apps is quite a challenge with API-based approaches. It can be done, but typically you need to integrate the UI technologies (e.g. WebView, Native, OpenGL, ...) with several APIs or some kind of wrapper (like Selendroid).
Here at TestObject (I'm one of the co-founders) we've created an Image-based UI testing approach specifically for cases like hybrid apps, interaction between apps, and so forth. This black-box approach is solely based on capturing the screen - we don't care what happens underneath.
Feel free to give it a try (http://testobject.com/) with your hybrid Cordova/Phonegap app and let me know how it worked out in comparison to UI Automator, Selendroid, Appium. Let us know if you stumble over any issues.
I faced this challenge with our own Cordova app ( sourceforge.net/p/ustadmobil/codehtml5cordova/ci/master/tree/ ) ; and I needed a way to integrate this with Jenkins CI. We have Cordova specific code (e.g. filesystem access) so just using PhantomJS and Grunt is not an option.
Essentially what I did was to launch the app with the test page as index.html in the emulator, run an http server, and then have the test page pass the results back using AJAX.
Script launches an emulator with the package
$ /opt/adt/sdk/tools/emulator-x86 -avd $AVDNAME -qemu -m 2047 &
$ EMULATEPID=$!
$ adb wait-for-device #wait for device to start
$ adb shell input keyevent 82 #unlock screen
Make a test page using qunit, which when finished will communicate the test results with an AJAX call.
Make a basic nodejs server script that will listen for that ajax call and save the results to a file. A bash script can then read that file and determine if the tests passed or failed : see http://sourceforge.net/p/ustadmobil/codehtml5cordova/ci/master/tree/setup/node-qunit-server/node-qunit-server.js
In the build script wait for the result file to come, then kill the emulator and the NodeJS server - see http://sourceforge.net/p/ustadmobil/codehtml5cordova/ci/master/tree/setup/android/unit-test-setup-android.sh
Also worth noting: this approach works for the cross platform nature of Cordova: it should be possible to take the same approach running iOS, Windows Phone emulators etc (I also use this test method against our NodeWebKit desktop version which shares most of the code).
Hope this helps,
-Mike
i am new in test android project. just i try to test sample hello world application. its working. i refer the following link
https://developer.android.com/resources/tutorials/testing/helloandroid_test.html
i have one doubt can i test whole android project using android test? its possible?. otherwise that android test only applicable for small applications. i want to test tabs and web service hitting and lot of functionality using android test project.
any one can help me?
JUnit test is possible for android application.if you want to test an android application then you use testing tool like robotium.here you follow this link
http://code.google.com/p/robotium/wiki/Getting_Started
Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications.