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Espresso Cheat Sheet

May 7, 2018April 16, 2015 by Daniel

In an older post from 2013 I briefly described the Android test automation tool called Espresso. Espresso is the test automation framework provided by Google to implement fast and reliable tests for Android apps. Since last year Espresso is available in the version 2.0 and has fixed lots of issues and is now supporting most of the Android UI elements. If you are new to Espresso you can check the following URLs, they provide a getting started, Espresso guide and some Espresso samples.

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Today I found the Espresso Cheat Sheet (I don’t know why this not happened earlier 🙂 ), but nevertheless I want to share it with you as well.

Android Screen Recording using ADB

May 7, 2018February 4, 2015 by Daniel

Thanks to Richard Bradshaw, also known as the @FriendlyTester, who reminded me in a tweet about the Android screen recording feature using an ADB (Android Debug Bridge) command. In one of my last posts, I already wrote about the new QuickTime recording feature for iOS devices running iOS8 in combination with a Mac OS X device running … Read more

[Video] Breaking the Matrix – Android Testing at Scale

May 7, 2018October 25, 2014 by Daniel

Today, I want to share a video with you. The topic of the video is “Breaking the Matrix – Android Testing at Scale” and shows a talk from Google employees explaining how to scale your Android test automation using emulators. Testing Android apps manually on emulators is not my first choice, however at some point it … Read more

How to stress test your Android app with Monkey

May 7, 2018April 1, 2014 by Daniel

Today I want to show you a small nice tool, to stress test your Android app. The tool is called monkey and is part of the Android SDK. The tool is not new, but I didn’t had the chance/ time to work with the tool.

Monkey is a program that runs on your device or emulator. While running it is generating pseudo-random user events such as touch, click, rotate, swipe, mute the phone, shutdown wifi and many more, to stress test your app and to see how your app is handling all those inputs.

Quality Tools for Android

May 7, 2018March 20, 2014 by Daniel

This week I found the nice github page from Stephane Nicolas named Quality Tools for Android. He provided a sample Android app using several test frameworks, to see how to use them.

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