Mastering Mobile Test Automation

Feroz Pearl Louis, Gaurav Gupta

• Éditeur: Packt Publishing
• Année: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781782175421
• Sujet: Informatica
• Sous-sujet: Project Management

Mastering Mobile Test Automation

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Table of Contents

Mastering Mobile Test Automation

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. Ensuring Five-star Rating in the MarketPlace

Introduction to mobile test automation

Mobile application packages

Native applications

Mobile web applications

Hybrid applications

Factors to be considered during mobile testing

Mobile automation testing approaches

Automation using real devices

Steps to set up automation

Limitations of this automation

Emulators-based automation

Steps to set up automation

Advantages

Limitations

User agent-simulation-based automation

Steps to set up the automation

Advantages

Limitations

Cloud-based automation

Steps to set up the automation

Advantages

Limitations

Types of mobile application tests

Selection of the best mobile testing approach

Troubleshooting and best practices

Summary

2. Designing Mobile Automation Frameworks

Selecting an automation tool

Types of mobile automation frameworks

The functional decomposition or test script modularity framework

Implementation required for mobile testing

The data-driven framework

Implementation required for mobile testing

The keyword-driven framework

Implementation required for mobile testing

The hybrid framework

Implementation required for mobile testing

Support libraries

Optimizing the combination of approach and framework

A robust reporting mechanism

The automation feasibility analysis

Test library management

Version control

Change control

Summary

3. User Agent – automating Mobile Applications with Browsers

Introduction

A user agent string

User agent simulation for mobile

User agent plugin programs

Setting up a mobile test automation lab for user agents

Setting up the user agent add-on for Mozilla Firefox

Setting up a user agent add-on for Google Chrome

Advantages of this approach

Limitations of this approach

The Hybrid framework implementation for the user agent

The UFT code snippet

The Selenium code snippet

Troubleshooting and best practices

Summary

4. Emulators and Simulators – the Automation of Emulated Devices

Introduction to mobile emulators

Setting up a mobile emulators for automation

The Android emulator setup

Automating the Android emulator with Selenium WebDriver

Code snippet

The iOS simulator setup

Code snippet

Implementing a mobile test automation framework for emulators

The Appium architecture

The Appium setup

Android on the Windows OS

Appium on the Mac OS

Scripting and execution with Appium

Scripting and object property extraction

Execution

Code snippet

Capabilities of the Android emulator for versions lower than 4.2 and hybrid applications

Advantages of mobile emulators

Limitations of mobile emulators

Troubleshooting and best practices

Summary

5. Automating Physical Devices

Getting started

Automation technologies with real devices

Automation with the optical recognition technology

Automation with AUT code instrumentation

Automating with native device methods

Object Identification with leading tools

Automation on real devices with various tools

Automation with Appium on real devices

Code snippet for Appium with real devices

Capabilities for Android devices with versions below 4.2

Automation with SeeTest on real devices

Configuring a SeeTest license

SeeTest tool configuration

Configuring a real mobile device for automation

Android devices

iOS-based devices

Windows-based devices

Blackberry devices

Instrumentation of a mobile application

Android platform

iOS platform

Windows platform

Blackberry platform

Mobile web applications

Creating scripts

Exporting scripts for integration with other execution environments

WebDriver code snippet

UFT code snippet

Advantages and limitations of this technique

Troubleshooting and best practices

Summary

6. Automating on Cloud

Getting started with cloud automation

Prominent mobile cloud automation tools

A private cloud lab setup

Integrating automation tools such as UFT and Selenium

Automation scripting with cloud devices

Automating with inbuilt cloud tool automation support

Test data parameterization

Interrupt scenario automation

Execution and reporting

Automating with third-party automation tools

Scripting with UFT

Scripting with Selenium

Troubleshooting and best practices

Summary

7. Optimizing Test Strategy and Estimation

Lifecycle of a mobile test automation project

Requirement gathering and analysis

Device matrix creation

Optimization of the device coverage matrix

Optimizing the test automation strategy

The automation feasibility analysis

Effort estimation

Return on investment

RoI calculation

The RoI analysis

Best practices to maximize the RoI

Automation framework design and development

Test scripting

Automation suite execution

The execution manager

Extensibility and maintenance

Some more best practices

Summary

8. Delivering Customer Delight

Customer delight – internal and external

An ideal mobile test automation framework

Mobile automation for agile projects

DevOps and shift left

Behavior-driven development

Continuous integration for mobile automation

Some sample mobile projects

Project 1 – an insurance provider's web application

Testing requirements

Optimization

The solution

Project 2 – automobile manufacturer's car dashboard and health-check application

Testing requirements

Optimization

The solution

Project 3 – using a web and hybrid application to enable BYOD for a secure banking application

Testing requirem...