Robotium (& Recorder) – Introduction; Benefits & limitations – Android

hello friends welcome to video tuition
here in this technical tutorial I am
going to talk about robotium which is
another test automation framework for
Android mobile applications we will also
see what is robotium recorder and its
benefit in android apps' testing so
let's get started
Robo team is an Android test automation
framework for testing native and hybrid
Android mobile applications against
mobile devices or emulators robotium
makes it easy to write powerful and
robust automatic tests for Android
applications with the help of robotium
testers can write function system and
user acceptance test scenarios spanning
multiple Android activities robot team
earlier was available as open source
Android test automation framework
however with the addition of robot iam
recorder
it is now licensed to tool robotium
recorder is available as a plugin for
Android studio and Eclipse it helps in
recording and creating professional
Android UI test cases robotium recorder
has full support for native and hybrid
android applications and records all
user interactions being performed like
every automation tool has its own
benefits of use robotium does help many
the main benefit of robotium is the
availability of its plugin for Android
studio and Eclipse which are most widely
used tools for Android application
development and so easy for everyone to
use with the help of robotium recorder
you can actually record user actions on
mobile devices and emulators for a given
mobile application under test robotium
provides full support for native and
hybrid Android application automation
robotium can be used with source code of
the application or even with the APK
files for script automation robotium
test execution is faster and can also be
triggered from command line
Automation script developed using
robotium works on all Android versions
scripts are also independent of mobile
screen resolution and size with so many
benefits there are some limitations also
of using robotium for mobile application
automation Robottom does not support
flash and web applications for
automation another point to note is that
robotium tests can only be run on one
device at a time robotium is also unable
to handle different applications in one
test if mobile application calls another
one like camera robotium can't see it
and script fails in execution and as
mentioned before robotium is a framework
that only allows you to test android
application doesn't support arras
platform testing robotium is an
extension of the android test framework
created to make it easy to write user
interface tests for Android applications
robotium
facilitates in creating powerful test
cases with minimum knowledge of the
application under test in my next
robotium tutorial i will show you in
detail how robotium recorder can be
installed as eclipse plug-in and used
for recording editing and executing
android automated tests on real mobile
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