Mobile App Update Testing

During the development process of mobile apps manual and automated testing is highly recommended. But there is another test you should do before releasing or submitting your app to a store. Testing the update procedure! Testing the update procedure from the current store version to the new release candidate is really important and it is … Read more

Robotium, Jenkins and Ant

I think it is time for a new How to/ Tutorial on my blog. Today, I want to give you an overview of how to setup your Robotium test project to build it with the tool Ant. If the project is configured for Ant, I will explain how to integrate it into the continuous integration server Jenkins. With the combination of the build tool Ant and the CI Server Jenkins, you are able to build up your own mobile test automation environment. Written Robotium tests can be executed on schedule or directly after a developer commits new code to the repository.

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Mobile Cloud Testing Services use jailbroken and rooted devices

In my last blog post I wrote about a new Cloud Testing Service for Android and mobile web apps. A few hours after writing this post, I found this very interesting blogpost about mobile cloud testing services and the use of jailbroken and rooted devices. Please read this post and think about it, if you … Read more

AppThwack – Android and Webapp Cloud Testing Service

Another new cloud testing service is available, named AppThwack. AppThwack is currently available for testing Android Apps but will soon provide the possibility to test also mobile web apps on different test devices. See a Sneak Peak in the company blogpost about the web app testing. If you want to test your Android app on different … Read more

YAATT – Yet Another Android Testing Tool

Thanks to my colleague @the_qa_guy I got the information that there is another test automation tool for Android Apps. The tool is called bot-bot and provide a selenium like test automation for native Android Apps using a capture & replay functionality. The tool is developed by Imaginea and based on the keyword driven approach. bot-bot … Read more