Mobile Test Automation

Iqnite April 2012: Talk about Android Test Automation with Robotium

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Last week my paper for the iqnite conference 2012 (april) in Duesseldorf was accepted. The talk is about mobile test automation using the tool robotium. The presentation will inlcude facts about robotium and a 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 … Read more

iPhone test automation using KIF (Keep It Functional)

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In my last posts I dealed a lot with Android and how to implement automated regression tests using tools like Robotium. This post describes how to implement automated tests using the tool KIF (Keep It Functional, http://corner.squareup.com/2011/07/ios-integration-testing.html). KIF is an open source test framework developed by the company square (https://squareup.com). It is an iOS integration test framework that allows you to implement test cases with objective C that can be executed currently only against the iPhone/ iPad simulator. The KIF tests are integrated to your workspace, there is no need for additional servers or services that must be started.

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How to re-sign a Android apk file for testing

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In the last days I got some questions about how to resign the apk file you want to test. And here is the answer. First some basic about the signatures in Android development! A signature is needed to identify the author of the Android application. A signature mostly contains information like:

  • First name
  • Last name
  • Name of the organization
  • City
  • State
  • Country Code

For more information please have a look at the Android SDK developer guide http://developer.android.com/guide/publishing/app-signing.html

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Robotium 3.0 is out there!

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Since November 16th the latest version of Robotium 3.0 is released. This new version of Robotium provides several new and improved methods to test your Android app. As Renas Reda in the jayway blog says: “Robotium is now faster, lighter and more stable then ever!” I hope that is true because the previous versions of Robotium were really slow in the execution, even on real devices. So let’s see what’s new!

The following two methods are new to wait for views:

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Mobile Developer Conference 2012 Hamburg

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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/

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