1. Effective mobile test automation using
the hybrid approach & live demo
Enabling Enterprise mobility
Extending Software Quality to Mobile
We will be starting momentarily
Perfectomobile
Mobile Testing Center of Excellence Group
2. Webinar Agenda
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• Intro
2
• Mobile testing
challenges
• Native and Visual
Objects explained
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• Mobile
automation live
demo
4
• Q&A
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10. Mobile environment - Continue
Difficult to test
Hard to automate dynamic complex environments and apps
Difficult to determine the devices to test on
Need to meet AGILE time frames
Decide when to stop testing (What is the adequate coverage criteria)
Manual testing is imperative as well
Meet external dependencies
OS UI guidelines
Devices availability
14. Objects Introduction
Objects are the ‘building blocks’ of an application
Buttons, Edit boxes, Lists etc.
Developing mobile automation requires access and robust object recognition
All use cases and test scenario's leverage the application objects (Pressing buttons,
selecting from lists, entering text into textbox’s etc.)
In mobile it is important to use OS Object level analysis
Web objects are critical for web based mobile applications (DOM)
15. Object Level Analysis – Pro’s/Con’s
Represents the available UI controls
Returns the texts of the current application
Complete control text is returned, including partially displayed text located outside
Supports all languages - information about the text language is not required
Text compare is completed with a simple string compare. Provides 100% accuracy that is
sensitive to small characters, such as punctuation marks
Match grade is either 0% or 100%
Control region and text are known, but not the order or the exact structure on the screen
Native control text retrieval is fast!
Performs the operation on the found control
In this example, the retrieved text is "name123"
16. Visual Objects (OCR) Pro’s/Con’s
Represents the actual real user experience (WYSIWYG)
Detects visual problems such as button heights, incomplete text, overwrite elements, etc…
Best when used to analyze images or complex applications (Games)
Indifferent to the device OS, Supports all languages
Returns the texts that appear on the screen:
Includes everything
Control text that is too long to display in the control region on the screen is partially displayed
followed by ‘…’
Visual analysis is more time consuming than native control analysis
Performs the operation on the found region
Link to a useful white paper on mobile objects can be found here:
http://help.perfectomobile.com/article/AA-01248/
In this example, the retrieved text is "name123 x"
17. Examples of OCR vs. Object Level analysis
In the above image, Object level
analysis won’t detect the Logon
button issue on the HTC device,
OCR will
In the above image, Object level
analysis won’t detect the
Truncated ‘Time’ label, OCR will
20. Thank You!
If you have any further questions,
please contact:
Perfecto Mobile
info@perfectomobile.com
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