Robotium ... native android app automation framework

Automating Android Native Applications using Open Source Test Framework - ROBOTIUM

 

http://code.google.com/p/robotium/

ROBOTIUM Framework provides API’s to deal with various kinds of Widgets/UI , present in mobile applications developed using Android SDK.

About Robotium

Robotium is a UI Testing tool created  by JAYWAY to make it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box test cases for Android applications.

Robotium has full support for Activities, Dialogs, Toasts, Menus and Context Menus. And  simulates touching, clicks, typing, and other user actions relevant for Android applications.

How Robotium Uses Instrumentation feature provided in Android

 Investigate interaction with UI

 Pressing buttons, navigating menus

Features supported by Robotium

Runs on device/emulator

JUnit 3 compatible framework

Allows direct control of user interface

– Touches, Taps, Scrolling in lists

Can be started from Eclipse or command prompt

Automatic timing and delays

 Automatically follows current Activity

 Automatically finds Views

 Automatically makes own decisions

 when to scroll etc.

 No modification to Android platform

Limitations

No Script Recorder

Tied to one app process

Needs initial Activity.

No approach for Configuration Management.

No Data Driven Testing and Test Data Management Approach

No Reporting capabilities

No Screenshot Capture

No Remote Execution

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