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1. Impetus Technologies Inc.
Testing Automation of Mobile
Apps- The Best Practices
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2. Outline
• Mobile Test Automation
• Possibilities and Challenges
• Best Practices
– Environmental Testing
– Behavioral Testing
– Performance Testing
– Complete Ecosystem testing
• Impetus Recommended Approach
– Case Studies
– mAutomate Demo
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3. Mobile Test Automation
Using best practices, tools and artefacts that reduces
the need of human involvement on repetitive testing
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4. Possibilities
• Cloud-model helps manage the cost of device acquisition
• Facilitates offshore model - Reduces cost
• High speed of automation testing - Saves time
• Enhanced productivity
• Maximizes test coverage
Test Automation of Mobile Apps enables faster time to market!
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5. Generic Challenges
 Diversity of device / platforms
 Hardware complexity
 Application complexity
 Carrier network issues
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6. Technical Challenges
 Large number of test cases
 API Level test execution
 Object comparison transparency
 Device specific features
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7. Best Practices – Testing Automation of Mobile
Apps
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Our Mantra
Test plan early, Test always, Test on the devices
Best Practices of Mobile Application Testing
• Environmental Testing
• Behavioral Testing
• Performance Testing
• Ideal Test Ecosystem

8. Environmental Testing
• Using devices for automation testing - not emulators
• Automatic network switching
• Auto application installation through OTA
• Manage notification services
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9. Behavioral Testing
• Screen orientation - Test for frequent switches
• Automatic simulation of
• No network
• Hardware capabilities
• Location attributes
• System v/s user events
• Not just happy flows 
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10. Performance Testing
• Memory, CPU and Battery analytics
• Retrieving application responsiveness
• UI navigation performance
• Usage of performance analytics tools
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11. Ideal Testing Ecosystem
• Defined test & result protocol
• Device management
• Test case management
• Result reporting
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12. Market Scenario
Available approaches to enable automation
White Box QA
Image comparison based tools
Object comparison based tools
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13. Bridging the Gap
• Record once, execute on multiple devices
• Leveraging web-based infrastructure for test suite
management
• Using push-based mechanism
• Executing test cases on remote devices
• Running tests in multiple geographic via cloud
• Complete test execution reports
• Shares performance numbers and screen shots
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14. mAutomate cloud-enabled Mobile Automation
Testing
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15. Case Study : Financial Services
• Our Client
• A leading company providing financial and banking services
• Key Requirement
• A mobile banking solution for Android devices & tablets
• Impetus Solution
• Recorded 175 automation test cases on 1 target device
• Simultaneously executed recorded test cases on 15 Android
devices and 1 tablet, across multiple geographies
• Complete web driven test management
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16. Case Study : Work Force Management
• Our Client
• Leaders in work force management solutions
• Key Requirement
• Extending successful enterprise app to mobile
• Impetus Solution
• Complete functional testing solution provided
• With testing automation, framework recorded all test cases in a few
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• Simultaneously execute on multiple devices on each iterations
• Retrieved test results with reason of failure and performance

17. Summing Up
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• Don’t forget -
• Auto application installation through OTA
• Network switching
• Location simulation
• Well thought of strategy for test and device management
• Leverage Cloud-enabled infrastructure for automated testing

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About Impetus

19. • Strategic partners for software product engineering and
R&D
• Thought leaders in cutting-edge technologies
• Mature processes and practices that are methodical, yet
flexible
• Diverse domain expertise
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