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http://dx.doi.org/10.3745/KIPSTD.2012.19D.2.203

Functional Test Automation for Android GUI Widgets Using XML  

Ma, Yingzhe (비원플러스)
Choi, Eun-Man (동국대학교 컴퓨터공학과)
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The KIPS Transactions:PartD / v.19D, no.2, 2012 , pp. 203-210 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Test Automation; GUI testing; XML;
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