In the present world that we live in, the landscape of mobile application is growing across all business verticals. It is because of the excellent usability of such applications by billions of mobile end users. To tap such mobile users and convert them into a customer base, organizations are ready to do everything possible and create apps which are loved by their prospective users.

1. TOP TOOLS FOR AUTOMATION TESTING OF MOBILE APPLICATIONS
Artefacts from TechAhead @Copyright 2016
- By Manoj Verma (C.T.O., TechAhead)

2. INTRODUCTION
In the present world that we live in, the landscape of mobile
application is growing across all business verticals. It is because of
the excellent usability of such applications by billions of mobile
end users. To tap such mobile users and convert them into a
customer base, organizations are ready to do everything possible
and create apps which are loved by their prospective users.
One common element in any successful application development
is mobile app testing strategy. It ensures that mobile application
covers customer expectations and business objectives. This testing
is a preeminent test of mobile apps which apps need to pass
before they are deployed.
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3. INTRODUCTION
However testing also poses challenges on the cost optimization with
required ability to support various types of mobile devices, and operating
systems like Android, iOS, and Windows. At times, QA is costlier than
even development, as organizations need to
• Test-certify on too many device models, OSs, platforms, and
combinations
• Do such testing more often, because of multiple OS upgrades, launch
of new device models, new releases to remain competitive on mobile
features, etc.
To solve such a critical situation, best solution is to automate testing as
much as possible. Let’s take a look at the Top Automation Testing Tools
for mobile apps, which can help organisations save cost and win at
mobile app testing.
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4. ROBOTIUM
Robotium is one of the first and frequently utilized automated
testing tools for Android. Robotium aims to make writing tests for
simulating user actions such as touching, clicking, and typing
simple. It can be used on the source code for the app or even the
apk files, and can run on either emulators or real devices. Software
developers often describe it as Selenium for Android. Tests created
by Robotium are written in Java.
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5. APPIUM
Appium is an open source mobile automation testing tool to allow
developers test various Android native mobile web applications as
well as hybrid applications. native applications are written with
the support of iOS or Android SDKs and various other mobile web
application tools that can be used to perform tests on mobile
browsers such as Chrome or a built-in browser application
browser on Android operating systems.
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6. SEETEST
SeeTest is the best commercial mobile testing automation tool. It
comes with lots of predefined keywords by which testers can
automate testing of application easily. Since it’s a cross platform
solution, same script runs on different devices. Facilitates test to
run on several devices concurrently and records on real devices.
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7. MONKEY RUNNER
MonkeyRunner is one of those highly advance Android testing
application tools that initiates an Application Programming
Interface (API) to be used for writing programs to help developers
automate and control all kinds of functional test cases of Android
devices. MonkeyRunner’s testing tool is purely written in Python
programming language where this test automation application
tool doesn’t support source code and this is the reason why
testers don’t really require much knowledge of source code
programming.
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8. CALABASH
Calabash is a test automation framework that enables mobile
developers and pretty much anyone without coding skills to create
and execute automated acceptance tests for Android and iOS apps.
Calabash is an automated acceptance testing framework and
works well with Ruby, Java, .NET, Flex and many other
programming languages.
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9. Mobile app testing automation is a complex task. An effective
automation testing using tools as per the selection criteria and
budget can be achieved.
Several factors like availability of tools and compatibility, network
and environment setup, recording and location elements on UI
tricks, system configuration for desktop and server machines
should be considered for effective and on-time automation project
delivery that makes app stable and bug free, earning app clients’
satisfaction and appreciation.
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