Android UI Testingwith uiautomator

Jana Moudrá | @Janamou | +JanaMoudrá

Me

Co-Founder at JuicymoGDG ČVUT Prague/GDG Prague

Web, Android, Design, Dart

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Motivation

UI Testing

UI testing ensures that your application returns the correct UI output in response to a sequence

of user actions on a device.

http://developer.android.com/tools/testing/testing_ui.html

UI Testing

No knowledge of implementation

Testing and implementation

separated

Manual?

Time consumingNot repeatable

Error prone

Manual?

Time consumingNot repeatable

Error prone

We want to automate

Android?

Android?uiautomator

Android 4.1

Device

Tests in Java

How to test

in 3 steps

Create the App

1

Prepare the Test

2

Prepare the Test

Application is accessible

Application is on the device

Use uiautomatorviewer

Set development environment

Create the test

Development environment

Java project

+JUnit + uiautomator.jar + android.jar

Use uiautomatorviewer

Create the Test

extend the

UiAutomatorTestCase class

Use available classes

UiDeviceUiSelectorUiObject

UiCollectionUiScrollable

UiSelector

UiObject threeButton = new UiObject(

new UiSelector().text("3"));

threeButton.click();

UiSelector

UiObject urlForm = new UiObject(

new UiSelector()

.resourceId("com.android.browser:id/url"));

urlForm.setText("http://www.gug.cz");

getUiDevice().pressEnter();

What can I do with UiObject?

Use gesturesRetrieve attributes

Set textNo manipulation

We can use Asserts

assertEquals(threeButton.getText(), "3");

Run the Test

3

Run the Test

1) Build with Ant2) Push to device

3) Run the test

DEMO

Thank You!Questions???

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