1. Impetus Technologies Inc.
Failure-proof Test Automation of
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Mobile Apps
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2. Outline
• Challenges
– Generic Challenges
– Technical Challenges
• Solution
– Test Automation
– Selection Criteria
– Types of Automations
– Enabling Automation
– Benefits
– Constraints
• Impetus Approach
• Case Studies
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3. Generic Challenges
• Diversity of device / platforms
• Hardware complexity
• Application complexity
• Carrier network issues
• Compressed software
development schedules
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4. Technical Challenges
• Large number of test cases
• API level test execution
• Verification of UI control
• Handset specific features
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5. Is Manual Testing Redundant ?
Test Automation is the use of strategies, tools
and artifacts that reduce the need of human
involvement on repetitive testing tasks
Supports – Unit, UI and Functional
testing
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6. Selection Criteria
Mobile
Automation
Testing
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Data Centric Apps
(e.g. SFA,CRM and enterprise apps)
Device Capability based Apps
(e.g. LBS, Camera, Multimedia, VOIPI)
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7. Types of Testing Automation
• Unit Testing Automation
• xUnit family of tools like JMUnit/Bunit/OCUnit
• UI Testing Automation
• VnC based tools that rely on image comparisons
• Functional Testing Automation <best approach>
• combination of unit test type scripts with
instrumentations
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8. Enabling Automation: Step by Step
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Application specific test case writing
Conversion of test cases into scripts
(write / record)
Execution of test scripts on devices
Unattended test cycles
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9. What Do We Get?
 Programmable
 Repeatable &
reusable
 Reliable &
comprehensive
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 Increased
productivity.
 Cost reduction
 Superior
application quality
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10. Major Constraints
 Regression & negative testing
 Testing device features used in app i.e. Camera,
accelerometer, GPS & Bluetooth
 Call & SMS interrupts
 VoiceMail or IVR based scenario
 Network latency
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11. Achieving Automation
 Record/playback capabilities
 Push-based execution on target device
 Assertions of test results on server side
 Integration with OpenSource tools
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12. Our Approach- mAutomate
Configuration
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Mobile Device
Modify the
Scripts
Validate
the
results
Result Report
Record & Send
Push for execution
Fetch Test Scripts
Send Output Back
Testers Machine
Mobile Test
Application
(build with MTA
library)
(MTA)
Desktop
Test Data Client
Common
Function Library
Selenium
IDE
Selenium
Server
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13. Benefits of Our Approach
• Provides direct (key,value) pairs
• Better than screen comparison approach taken by other
VNC based testing solutions
• Test scripts are independent of device resolution and
screen sizes
• Works on low-end single VM
devices
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14. Case Study : M-CRM
The Challenge
• Maximize test coverage for a Mobile CRM solution
• Testing on different devices, technologies and
geographical locations
• Large number of test cases
Benefits
• Could achieve 90%+ code coverage
• Multiple devices tested simultaneously in different
networks
• Test cycle time reduced from 1 week to few hours
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The Client
Market leader that provides
innovative solutions to
small business
Successfully Automated 90% Test Cases
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15. Case Study : WFM
The Challenge
• Application developed on multiple platforms
• Maximum test coverage on all platforms and
different network worldwide
• Large number of test cases
Benefits
• Testing on all 4 platforms in parallel
on multiple devices
• Test cycle time reduced from 5 days to few hours
• 90%+ code coverage achieved
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The Client
Leader in workforce
Management solutions with
more than 40K installations
93% Automation Achieved
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About Impetus

17. • Strategic partners for software product engineering and
R&D
• Thought leaders in cutting-edge technologies
• Mature processes and practices that are methodical, yet
flexible
• Diverse domain expertise
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Q & A

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