Use this topic to help you get started with your testing
of applications that run on Android devices.
About this task
The following diagram shows is a high-level overview of
mobile testing for Android:
Procedure
- Set up your mobile test environment.
- Install
Rational® Test Workbench Mobile
Test Edition and ensure that Extension for Mobile is selected.
- Install the Android SDK on the same computer that the test workbench is installed on.
You do not need to install the full Android Developer Tools
(ADT) bundle, but be sure to install Android SDK Tools, Android SDK
Platform-tools, and Android SDK Build-tools, if these are not already
installed. The current download page of the Android SDK is at Get the Android SDK but the location could
change in the future.
Note: Running the Android SDK Manager and
using the Android emulators requires the Oracle Java Developer Kit
(JDK). Be sure to also add the path to the Oracle JDK to your system's
PATH environment variable.
- Run the SDK manager at least once before running the test workbench to get the API-level
components.
- Set the preferences in the mobile application builder
path so that they point to the directory where the Android SDK is
installed. See Mobile application builders.
- Install the mobile test client on one or more
Android devices or on an emulator. Ensure that the mobile devices
can connect to the test workbench over WiFi or a cellular plan.
- Add your mobile devices to the test workbench.
- Prepare your mobile application for testing. You can do
this in one of the following two ways:
- From your mobile device, upload the native or hybrid mobile
application to the test workbench.
- From the Mobile and Web UI Applications window in the test workbench, add the native, hybrid, or web application to the
list.
- From the test workbench,
create a test project by clicking .
- Verify that the application is visible in the Mobile and Web UI Applications window in the
test workbench.
- Create a test by recording gestures and user interactions
on the mobile device.
You can initiate the recording on the device or from the test workbench. Actions are represented in natural language, which allows
you to document and reproduce the test manually.
- Examine and enhance the test script recording as needed.
Here are some of the things you can do:
- Add verification points to verify that an expected value or behavior is returned during a
test run.
- Add variables to the test script.
- Add a loop so that the test runs multiple times.
- Add a datapool to provide variable data rather than the data that you recorded.
- Add application stubs to simulate the behavior of actual objects that interact with the
application under test.
- Run the test.
You can initiate a test run from the mobile device or from the test workbench.
- Evaluate the test results.
What to do next
For additional guidance, see the
Testing mobile applications with Rational Test Workbench playlist
on YouTube.