By Ms.A.C.Sumathi AP(SG)/ Dept of CSE SNS College of Engineering, CBE

 Application software developed for hand held mobile devices is tested for its functionality, usability and consistency.  Mobile application testing can be automated or manual type of testing.  Mobile applications either come pre-installed or can be installed from mobile software distribution platforms

 Variety of Mobile Devices  Diversity in Mobile Platforms/OS  Mobile network operators  Scripting

 Cross-Platform (Android and iOS) - Appium - Calabash/cucumber - Ranorex - Monkey Talk  For Android - Robotium - Android Lint  For iOS -Clang Static Analyzer -Analyze code from XCode

 Calabash enables to write and execute automated acceptance tests of mobile apps based on cucumber.  Calabash is cross-platform, supporting Android and iOS native apps. It is open source and free tool.  Calabash consists of libraries that enable test-code to programmatically interact with native and hybrid apps.

 Calabash consists of two libraries calabash-android and calabash-ios.  calabash-android is the automation and testing library for Android, and similarly calabash-ios is for iOS.  These low-level libraries that empower the Cucumber tool to run automated functional tests on Android and iOS phones and tablets as well as on simulators.

 The interaction consists of a number of end-user actions. Each action can be one of  Gestures - Touches or gestures (e.g., tap, swipe and rotate).  Assertions - For example: there should be a "Login" button or the web view should contain an " " element with the text "Hello".  Screenshots - screen dump the current view on the current device model

 Enables QA, business staff and developers to work at a high level by writing tests in a natural language using the terms and concepts of their business domain.

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 Features. - feature files describe the user-stories you want to test. You can test one or more features in one test run.  Step Definitions. - Calabash Android comes with a set of predefined steps - These steps are generic and made to get up and running fast. - To get more into Calabash we can implement our own custom steps.

 No modifications need to be done to the app before testing it.  Instrumentation Test Server. - This is another app that will be installed and executed the device. This app is based on ActivityInstrumentationTestCase2 from the Android SDK. It is generated by the Calabash Android framework.

 1. Download Android sdk from developer.android.com/sdk  2. You need to have Ruby installed. Verify your installation by running ruby -v in a terminal - it should print "ruby 1.8.7" (or higher).  If you are on Windows you can get Ruby from RubyInstaller.org  3. a) Install calabash-android by running  gem install calabash-android  b) To install latest version of calabash use the following command  gem install calabash-android --version pre2  4. Set the Android path to the following in system variables:  ANDROID_HOME=C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk  5. Set the JAVA_Home path to the following in system variables:  JAVA_HOME=C:/Program Files/Java/jdk1.7.0_17

 To run your test:  calabash-android run  Calabash-android will install an instrumentation along with the app when executing the app. We call this instrumentation for "test server".  The "test server" has special permission that allows it to interact very closely with your app during test.  Test server is built for every new binary or to an upgraded version.