A comparative study on automated Android application testing tools

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Tezin Türü: Yüksek Lisans

Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Enformatik Enstitüsü, Bilişim Sistemleri Anabilim Dalı, Türkiye

Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2016

Öğrenci: GÜLÇİN HÖKELEKLİ

Danışman: AYSU BETİN CAN

Özet:

Nowadays, as mobile devices have become widespread, mobile application development has become an area which is considerably popular. This popularity increases the importance of mobile application testing. Distinguishing properties of mobile devices increase the importance of test automation. Thus, the number of mobile test automation tools is growing. Each tool has some advantages and limitations. The aim of this study is to compare the most popular mobile testing tools. We choose Android testing tools because of Android’s prevalence in the market. To achieve this aim of the study, firstly we have identified the criteria that will be used for comparison of the testing tools. Then, we have selected three most commonly used Android test automation tools. Afterwards, we have analyzed and compared the selected tools in terms of the criteria identified before. In order to make this comparison we have made a detailed research on tutorials and conducted a case study in which we have written and run same test cases by using each of the selected tools