EMPIRICAL STUDY ON AUTOMATED GUI TESTING TECHNIQUES FOR ANDROID

2017 Asia Pacific Journal of Contemporary Education and Communication Technology  
Smart phones with high-resolution touch screens have become a vital part of everyone's life. Android technology in smart phones provides advantage of being open source and user friendly. Android works with hundred of devices where users can test and modify their phone as they need. The important aspect of a mobile phone is not only how it meets the user requirement, but the most important is the correctness and accuracy of its response and interaction with graphical user interface. The
more » ... al GUI testing of today's smart phones is not enough to test the Android application. Android application is actually event-driven; so it is necessary to assess how techniques can be adopted to carry out cost-effective testing processes in the Android platform. There are special automated techniques for GUI testing of android applications proposed by software engineers. This paper presents an overview of recent work done in the area of automated GUI based testing of Android applications.
doi:10.25275/apjcectv3i2ict1 fatcat:75iwd6aopzgsflcrfhlre22dfi