Automated Test Oracles for Android Devices to get the Accuracy, Efficiency, and Reusability

  D.Anand Kumar,  Ramya Paruchuri

Automated GUI testing tool works on simulating user events and validating the changes in the GUI so that an Android application works properly. When testing an application and if the device under test (DUT) is under heavy load the accuracy may degrades significantly. In order to improve the accuracy, our previous work, SPAG, uses event batching and smart wait function to eliminate the uncertainty of the replay process and adopts GUI layout information to verify the testing results. The previous work SPAG outperforms the existing methods with 99.5 percent accuracy when testing. Present, the work is of testing and android device with an extension of SPAG, i.e. Smart phone Smart Phone Automated GUI testing tool with Camera (SPAG-C). The work’s goal is to reduce the time required to record the test cases and increase reusability without compromising the test accuracy. SPAG-C automatically performs image comparison with the help of external camera photos instead of frame buffer screenshots to verify the results. In order to make SPAG-C reusable for different devices and to allow better synchronization at the time of capturing images, we develop a new architecture that uses an external camera and Web services to decouple the test oracle. SPAG-C is 50 to 75 percent faster than SPAG in achieving the same test accuracy. With reusability, SPAG-C reduces the testing time from days to hours for heterogeneous devices.

Keywords- Reusability, testing tools, GUI Testing, SPAG, DUT, Record and Replay

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1703162
Page Number(s) - 1144-1150
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 3 | September 2017
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Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  D.Anand Kumar,  Ramya Paruchuri,   "Automated Test Oracles for Android Devices to get the Accuracy, Efficiency, and Reusability", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 3, pp.1144-1150, September 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1703162.pdf