Last week my paper for the Mobile Dev Con 2012 (Feb) in Hamburg was accepted. The talk is about mobile test automation using the tool robotium. In the next weeks I will start preparing some facts about robotium and also a really cool Live Demo Session that show the possibilities of the tool. For more information about robotium check http://code.google.com/p/robotium. Or read a recent blogpost of how to setup robotium http://dnlkntt.wordpress.com/2011/10/29/how-to-setup-a-test-environment-for-android-using-robotium/
Android
How to setup a test environment for Android using Robotium
This post should show how easy it is, to setup an robotium test environment for Android Apps using the Eclipse IDE. First of all you have to download the latest Android SDK depending to your operating system from http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html. After downloading the zip file you can unzip it to:
- /opt for Linux system
- /Applications for Mac OSx systems
- c:Programs for Windows systems
AVD – Manager
Start the Android avd manager with the command ./tools/android.
My desk at work
I found this image on my computer during an overdue cleanup of my desktop. The image was taken after the inventory of our mobile devices in the office. Thank god, we have automated regression tests for our mobile apps 😉