OutOfMemory Exception with Robotium – Update IV

If you are using Robotium for test automation your Android app and you have many test cases that must be executed, you may run into an OutOfMemory Exceptions after a certain time of test execution. I have this problem with my test suite. The full test suite consists of around 110 test cases. Besides the … Read more

How XING choose mobile test devices

In my last company blog post I dealed with the topic: “How to choose the right mobile test devices”. In addition to all our mobile test automation, we also do a lot of manual and exploratory testing within our mobile team. We test devices with different hard- and software, with different browser versions, and on … 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

Video: My talk from the Scandinavian Agile Conference is now online

Today, I want to share the video of my talk on the Scandinavian Agile Conference 2012 in Helsinki. The topic was: Mobile App Testing – Challenges, Solutions and Best Practices. Have fun!

Overview of Mobile Test Automation Frameworks

I found a really nice overview about Open Source Mobile Testing Frameworks for Test Automation. The overview was created by Dominik Dary (eBay). In his table he showed how many test automation frameworks are currently available for Android or iOS testing. The complete blog post can be found here: http://www.dary.de/2012/03/open-source-mobile-test-automation-frameworks A big thank you to … Read more