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Android Testing

This page has information about various tests you can perform on Android

Google provides a number of resources for testing applications,
including monkey, the logger, and the compliance test suite (CTS)

For an overview of Android application testing and resources provided by
Google, see:
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/testing/index.html

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Android Test Framework

Google provides an integrated test framework for testing Android
applications, based on the JUnit test framework from java.

See Android Testing
Fundamentals

Application testing resources

  • monkeyrunner

    • The monkeyrunner tool provides an API for writing programs that
      control an Android device or emulator from outside of Android
      code. It allows you to write a program, which runs on your host
      machine that can interact with an application running in the
      emulator or on a target device.
    • With monkeyrunner, you can write a Python program that installs
      an Android application or test package, runs it, sends
      keystrokes to it, takes screenshots of its user interface, and
      stores screenshots on the host.

  • Monkey
    is a user interface and application tester for Android applications.

    • It is a command-line tool that sends pseudo-random streams of
      keystrokes, touches, and gestures to a device.
    • This tool in unrelated to the monkeyrunner tool mentioned above.
      (It runs on the target, and monkeyrunner-based programs run on
      the development host machine.)

  • Robotium test framework

    • Robotium is a test framework created to make it easy to write
      powerful and robust automatic black-box test 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.

  • Roboelectric test framework

    • Roboelectric allow you to test-drive the development of your
      Android app inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds,
      instead of in the emulator on on a device (which can be slow)
    • Robolectric allows you to test most Android functionality
      including layouts and GUI behavior, services, and networking
      code. It has more flexibility than Google’s testing framework in
      some areas.

  • Ranorex
    test framework

    • Ranorex provides a .Net based test automation framework which
      allows to record test scenarios directly on real mobile devices
      as well as on desktop machines.
    • Ranorex easily instruments the apk and deploys the instrumetned
      apk directly on the devices, starts the application
      automatically, performs all recorded actions (keystrokes, touch
      events, device button events, validations) and closes the
      application automatically.

Benchmarks

There are a number of benchmarks you can use to test operating system,
hardware and graphics performance.

For information about performance testing and benchmarks, see: Android
Benchmarks

Compliance Test Suite

Google provides a suite of tests to validate that a device complies with
the Android standard.

See Android Compliance Test
Suite
for more informaton.

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