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MOBILE API TEST APPROACH
“Business Assurance through Quality Assurance”

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Define API
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 API stands for
 An API is a software-to-
software interface, not a user
interface.
 With APIs, applications talk to
each other without any user
knowledge or intervention.
 Implemented by writing
function calls in the program.
 API s has libraries from the
Providers.

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How It Works ?
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 Google Maps has one of the most popular
APIs on the internet and provides a good
example of their power.
 Face book allows developers through an API
to create ‘apps’ that have become one of the
main sources of entertainment on Face
book.
APPLICATION
BAPIAPPLICATION
A
Request
data
Retrieve data

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Mobile API
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 A mobile application will
talk to its backend APIs via
standard protocols.
 Principles- HTTP and REST
with Data Format- XML and
JSON respectively
 APIs may either be your own
or from any number of 3rd
parties
 which can be integrated by
calling them directly from
your application, or indirectly
via your API backend

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Architecture
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Cloud Server
DB
Application
Log
Web Application
Third Party SDK Android/IOS SDK
Application Development

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Test Environment Setup
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Mobile Apps
Web Apps
Cloud Server

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Process Flow in Our Practices
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API
OS to be
tested
1. ADT
2. Android Simulator SDK
3. Android Real Device
1. Xcode
2. Iphone Simulator
3. Iphone 5 Real Device
Testing Carried out
Boundary
Analysis
Functionality Exceptional Return value
based on input
condition
Does not return
anything
Test Log
If OS = ‘Android’ If OS = ‘IOS'

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Challenges
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Challenge 1: No
proper documents
were provided
Solution :
Based on the KT
session, gathered
the information to
work on the
application
Challenge 2:
Timelines
Solution:
Individually shared
the platform
Challenge 3: New
feature Guidelines
were not provided
Solution:
Get the knowledge
of new features
from the
developers through
skype
Challenge 4:
Verifying and
validating the
output in different
system is little
difficult for testers.
Solution: In-depth
understanding of
functional behavior
and sharing among
the team to have
deeper understand
of same
functionality on
different system.
Challenge5:
Exception
handling function
needs to utilized
and used properly.
Solution:Based of
Documentation,
various exception s
has been handled
with its own
exception handling
methods.

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Types of Testing
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Return the expected responses for
both expected and unexpected input.
Functionality works as expected
even with multiple concurrent clients
APIs aren’t vulnerable to common
attacks
Functional
Testing
Performance
Testing
Security
Testing

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System Requirements
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General
• Server - Cloud server
• Integrated Third party application - Face book, Twitter applications
• Development language - Android, Objective-c,HTML5
IOS
• Operating System :Mac OS X 10.8.4
• Developer Tools - Xcode 4.6.3, Iphone Simulator, Iphone 5(ios-
6.1.4) Real Device.
Android
• Operating System: Windows XP, 7 and 8.
• Developer Tools - Eclipse - ADT (v22.0.1), Android Simulator SDK
(15 or higher), Android Real Device (15 or higher).

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In Our Practice
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 Understand the exact business requirement and priorities it.
 Requirement traceability Matrix is created to provide Input Parameters .
 The Low Level and High Level test cases are documented.
 The Testing Process is carried out once the test case is signed off by Client.

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Input Provided
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• Acts as both a unique identifier and
a secret token for authentication
• unique to each userAPI Key
• Interact with the Google Cloud
Storage API
• Each project can be identified by
their unique project ID
Project ID
public class GlobalVariables {
public static String apiKey =
"ZGoweEpuVTlOVEl5T1RkbE5URmxOR0l3TXpSa09UWmhOakF3WW1JMEptRTljM0J5YVc
1ME9HbHZjMkZ3Y0NZ";
public static String projectId = "720196781908";
}

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Android Manifest.xml
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.netmera.androidpushdemo"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >
<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="8"
android:targetSdkVersion="15" />
<!-- Used to connect Netmera Services -->
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET" />
<application
<activity
android:name=".MainActivity"
android:label="@string/app_name" >
</application>
</manifest>
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IOS XCODE
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Pass ScreenShot
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Failure ScreenShot
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Key Take Away
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