An Integrated Test Automation Framework for Testing on Heterogeneous Mobile Platforms

Implementation of mobile application should be tested on the mobile platform. Since there are several mobile platforms compete in the marketplace, a lot of effort is needed to test the implementations on every platform. This research aims to develop an integrated test automation framework by which implementations on multiple heterogeneous platforms can be tested efficiently. Commonly used events in the mobile platforms are extracted and mapped into the functions of each testing framework. We extended open source test frameworks to handle the common events. By doing so, test can be performed by describing test cases in a high level without generating test code manually. The proposed integrated framework was evaluated with the implementation of several mobile applications on the Android and iPhone platforms and found that the framework is effective and valid.