Mobile Vs Web Automation

Mobile Applications Automation

Mobile devices are everywhere. They are in the hospitals, at warehouses, on delivery trucks and in classrooms. PDAs, smartphones, and handhelds are in cars, airports, remote offices—always turned on, helping mobile workers stay connected and productive even when they are away from their computers. But mobile devices do not simply mimic desktop environments. They have unique uses and specialized applications that need to be purpose-built, ported to a variety of devices, and tested on all possible configurations to verify that they function correctly and remain reliable. With so many smartphones, mobile phones, PDAs, and other devices currently on the market. How do you enable your applications to work as expected? How can you test them on all popular mobile operating systems and keep current with the new OS versions as they become available? Can you create a test set that would run through all common business transactions on a mobile device with hundreds of different sets of data to check for errors? Can you look inside the smartphone and see what the application is doing to its memory, power consumption, or response speed? The answer to these questions lies in mobile device test automation. Only by investing in a test automation strategy and solutions can you create a comprehensive approach to mobile application quality and reliability. By implementing device-agnostic end-to-end testing solutions, we can say with confidence that our mobile applications can work on any device, with any language, any configuration, and on all popular OS. Build our test sets once and run them on every new version of the application. By creating scripts that are easy to maintain and reuse, we can safeguard our mobile applications against failures that can cause costly business interruptions and have a negative impact on customer experience.

Mobile Applications Test Automation Solution

HP Software provides one of the most advanced automated functional and regression testing solutions that support all major software applications and environments. HP is extending its industry-leading functional testing capabilities to mobile applications “Jamo”. Jamo testing solutions use the HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) software platform and QTP’s best practices and advanced features to bring automation into the world of mobile application testing. The solution allows for end-to-end test automation: from the originating mobile device, through the delivery infrastructure to the receiving device. It covers the entire business process from both the IT perspective (monitoring servers, routers, and other infrastructure components) and the mobile devices where messages are being sent and received.

Building Test Scripts for Mobile Applications

The Jamo mobile applications testing solution recognizes objects on a screen just like a user would see them. It captures these GUI objects into a QTP test script, making the scripts easy to navigate, enhance, and maintain. All user interactions with the device—such as sending a multimedia message or pressing the Send button—are captured and can be viewed in QTP in either a keyword or expert view. Using GUI-object recognition makes the script completely independent from the phone’s hardware configurations, processor power, screen resolution, background color, or available buttons. It makes the scripts extremely versatile and reusable, and helps achieve more comprehensive testing of your mobile applications. The ability to regression-test applications without having to recreate the test scripts for every patch or new version creates, perhaps, one of the most notable ROI from automated testing. Manual testing procedures can seldom cover the breadth of data combinations, business process scenarios, and test runs that can be achieved through automation.

Web Application Automation

As Web applications become more popular and increasingly more complex, the need for test automation of these applications grows. Automating tests through a GUI is difficult and can be costly. The most popular methods of automating using a GUI are to use window coordinates to click items or to create and use references to window objects. The first method relies on locations of objects not changing on a page; the second usually relies on a type of proprietary object mapping format where all Web page objects must be captured and saved prior to scripting. Another approach is to seek out and use testable interfaces that are built into Web browser applications and provide the ability to directly access the objects on the page as they appear in the Web browser.

It is simply making our web application work for us Irrespective of any person, due to this an owner gets a chance to perform their business transactions in parallel, beside of just to sit silent and monitor his site, with the feature of message boards visitors automatically gets responds of all their queries and comments posted automatically.

Building Test Scripts for Web Application

 Automation tools facilitates tester to write their own script based upon scenario which he want to automate, he can validate scenario by specify certain scripting logics in form of positive and negative out behavior of an application in it, once he is done with this he can validate that scenario multiple time without any manual interaction of human. While validating an application manually it’s almost impossible for tester to validate and test application under all possible ways, but by scripting he can perform this task most rapidly and affectedly. A web application have controls like Active- X controls, JAVA applets ,hyperlinks, COM objects, and most of other control which can be accessed by click, mouse over or drag & drop. While writing script tester must be take care that whether the behavior of that scenario is predictable or random, as some of the web-applications behaviors are very predictable, although there is only just clicking but user has to perform all steps in an order to complete transaction successfully for example while purchasing/ ordering any product using web although there is only just next and back buttons, but user still have to enter required information in an appropriate manner to complete the order, some of exceptional situation may arise and we have to anticipate them by scripting, this may include , connection lost , session time out, abort order etc. Some of the automation tools provide features to generate test cases automatically from a web-interface, irrespective of this tester have to spam the interfaces, as while ordering a product there a chain of several process which are tightly linked with each other which needs to be validate separately by using an appropriate logic

Conclusion:

We can test mobile application by using mobile emulators, as very less effort required to setup environment, as compared to desktop browser application technique. By using this simulation technique we can easily identified web elements during automation. Web automation technique is most probably of customizing data for enterprise use and automating its respective web contents within the overall information technology and business context, due to this reason automation of web is not likely to be considered in isolation to the rest of the IT infrastructure for data and process.