Functional Test Automation for Android GUI Widgets Using XML


The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp. 203-210, Apr. 2012
10.3745/KIPSTD.2012.19.2.203,   PDF Download:

Abstract

Capture-and-replay technique is a common automatic method for GUI testing. Testing applications on Android platform cannot use directly capture-and-replay technique due to the testing framework which is already set up and technical supported by Google and lack of automatic linking GUI elements to actions handling widget events. Without capture-and-replay testing tools testers must design and implement testing scenarios according to the specification, and make linking every GUI elements to event handling parts all by hand. This paper proposes a more improved and optimized approach than common capture-and-replay technique for automatic testing Android GUI widgets. XML is applied to extract GUI elements from applications based on tracing the actions to handle widget events. After tracing click events using monitoring in capture phase test cases will be created by communicating status of activated widget in replay phase with API events.


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Cite this article
[IEEE Style]
Y. Z. Ma and E. M. Choi, "Functional Test Automation for Android GUI Widgets Using XML," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 203-210, 2012. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2012.19.2.203.

[ACM Style]
Ying Zhe Ma and Eun Man Choi. 2012. Functional Test Automation for Android GUI Widgets Using XML. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 19, 2, (2012), 203-210. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2012.19.2.203.