Top 10 Automated Testing Tools

admin 4/30/2019

Nowadays, Automated tools are a must for any Mobile app testing. Properly organized automated Testing can reduce the time needed for the testing process and the chances of human errors during test execution.

There are innumerable Mobile Automation Testing tools available. Some of them are free while some are expensive. Some of these automation tools were created long ago; while some have just made it into the market. Each tool is unique and possesses certain characteristics.

A Broad range of automation tools makes it difficult to select the best one for a project and often tester's end up with tools that do not conform to project requirements.

Here is the list of top Mobile App Testing Tools-

1) Kobiton

Kobiton gives users full control of real mobile devices during manual testing with support for multi-touch gestures, orientation and GPS simulations, camera and speaker control and device connection management. With automatically generated activity logs, Kobiton captures all the actions performed during a testing session so issues can be identified and resolved more quickly. Users can purchase prepaid testing minutes that never expire for just $10.
Benefits:

The latest real, cloud-based devices and configurations
Centralized testing history and data logs for increased collaboration
Internal Device Lab Management to more effectively utilizes internal devices
Support for Appium 1.6.4
Simplified user experience to streamline test sessions
Easy to try with Free Trial – no credit card required

2) Squish By FrogLogic

Solve your Mobile test automation challenges with Squish for iOS and Squish for Android. Squish features dedicated support for automated testing of native Mobile Apps, mobile Web Apps as well as a mixture of both.

Due to Squish’s unique and stable object identification methods, Squish tests can run on mobile device emulators and different real devices without any changes. Unlike many other test tools, Squish does not require you to jailbreak or root the device. Instead, you can get started with automated GUI testing of your mobile Apps right away!
Benefits:

Advanced gesture support
Ready for Testing in the Cloud
Support for embedded web content
CI and source control integration
End-to-End and IoT testing

3) Experitest

Experitest is the leading mobile app testing platform.

Create & execute hundreds of manual or automated tests in parallel on 1,000+ real IOS & Android devices in the cloud
Create Appium tests with ease directly from your IDE
Enjoy real-time interaction and live debugging
Accelerate mobile testing cycles and increase the quality of your releases
Integrate with your CI/CD tools and workflow
Access visual test reports and advanced analytics

4) KMAX

Use KMAX to test your mobile app or device to make sure it performs under adverse network conditions, ranging from the routine to the extreme. KMAX provides pre-defined network scenarios, including 3G/4G, LTE, low-earth orbit satellite, and more. Emulate adverse network conditions in your lab including packet loss, delay, duplication, corruption, and more. Precisely recreate specific scenarios.
Benefits:

Choose from 22+ predefined mobile network scenarios and start testing immediately
Subject a product/app to controlled, customizable, and repeatable tests
Incorporate real or simulated network traffic
Customize network impairments to exactly match your desired environment
Accelerate time to market by getting rid of guesswork and surprises during testing

5) Appium Studio for Eclipse & IntellJ

With Appium Studio, you can perform end-to-end Appium or Selenium test automation directly from within your IDE.

Easily develop, automate, analyze and debug your tests on physical devices and browsers
Get immediate visual feedback with a device reflection
Powerful object identification
Build stable mobile app automation testing
Increase your test coverage rates
Integrate with any mobile test automation tool and CI environment
Large Scale parallel execution on real devices, emulators and simulators

6) Appium (iOS/Android Testing Tool)

Appium is an open source, and a cross platform test automation tool for the hybrid and native iOS, it supports Android versions from 2.3 onwards. Appium works like a server running in the background like selenium server.

It supports many programming languages, such as Java, Ruby, C# and other which are in the WebDriver library. Appium utilizes WebDriver interface for tests running

Appium automates Android using the UIAutomator library, which is given by Google as part of the Android SDK. On mobile devices, it can control Safari and Chrome. It can be synchronized with testing framework TestNG. In this case, UI Automator can produce informative and detailed reports, similar to reports generated by Ranorex

Appium Benefits

Due to the use of standard automation APIs on all platforms, you don't have to modify or recompile your app in any way
You can use any web-driver compatible language (Java, Objective-C, JavaScript) to write test case
You can use any testing framework
Easy to setup on a different platform
Supports various languages like Ruby, Java, PHP, Node, Python
It does not require anything to be installed on the device
You can still use Selenium Webdriver JSON wire protocol
You don't have to re-compile mobile app on a different platform
With the help of Java, it can be integrated with other tools

7) Robotium

It is a free Android UI testing tool, with Robotium it is easy to write powerful automatic black box test cases for Android applications. So, there is no need for further information about the Android app's structure or implemented classes. All they require is the name of the main class and the path that links to it. It supports Android 1.6 version and above. Tests in Robotium are written in Java. In fact, Robotium is a library for unit tests.

But it takes a lot of effort and time to prepare tests by means of Robotium, as one must work with the program source code in order to automate tests. The tool is less suitable for interaction with system software; it cannot lock and unlock a smartphone or a tablet. There is no play or record function in Robotium, and it does not provide screenshots.

Benefits of Robotium

With minimum knowledge of project powerful test cases can be created
It handles multiple Android activities automatically
It needs minimal time to create solid test cases
Synchronize easily with Ant or Maven to run tests as part of continuous integration
It is possible to run test cases on applications that are pre-installed
It can get code coverage for Robotium tests

8) Selendroid

Selendroid is a test automation framework that drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web. Using the Selenium 2 client API tests are written.

Benefits of Selendroid

It is fully compatible with JSON wire protocol
No alteration of app under test is needed to automate it
Same concept for automating native or hybrid apps
By different locator types, UI elements can be found
It can interact with multiple Android devices at the same time
Selendroid supports hot plugging of hardware devices
By different locator types, UI elements can be found

Selendroid comes with a useful tool known as Selenium Inspector. It allows you to inspect the current state of your app's UI.

9) MonkeyRunner

Monkeyrunner tool provides an API for writing programs that control an Android device or emulator from outside of Android code. This tool comes after robotium in respect to performance. The tests are written in Python, for creating tests one may use a recording tool.

The only set-backs of MonkeyRunner is that it is necessary to write scripts for each device and the tests require adjustments each time when user interface of the tested program is changed.

Benefits of MonkeyRunner

It can control multiple devices
In order to automate tests, one does not have to deal with the source code
It can be used for Automated functional testing
Monkeyrunner can be used for regression testing as well
Jython allows MonkeyRunner API to interact with the Android application

10) Calabash

Calabash consists of libraries that allow test-code to programmatically interact with native and hybrid apps.

It provides APIs that are specialized to native apps running on touch screen devices
It consists of libraries that allow test-code to programmatically interact with native and hybrid apps
It supports framework cucumber, which makes it easier to understand by business experts and non-technical QA staff

11) Frank

It is a lightweight UI based automation tool. It is a tool that uses a combination of Cucumber and JSON commands. It is described as the Selenium for native iOS app and some of its features include

It has got clean CSS-like selector syntax, allowing for fairly tolerant tests
It comes with pre-defined steps that you can use right away for your tests
It is driven by Cucumber
It contains symbiote a live introspection tool
It integrates with CI
It can run your tests on both the Simulator and Device
It records video of your test runs to show the app in action

12) KIF

KIF is objective C based framework and is purely for iOS automated testing. Kif is an automation framework which integrates directly with XCTests. It can be used when business folk are not involved in writing or reading test specs.

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It has got active community and good support
Integrates seamlessly with XCTests and KIF comes with an 'KIFtestCase' which you can use in place of 'XCTTestCase'
KIF accesses UI elements by their accessibility labels
Everything is in one language Objective C, so it is easier for pure iOS developer's to pickup
It has got impressive command line and CI
It has pretty reasonable support for gestures

13) MonkeyTalk

Everything from data driven test suites to simple 'Smoke Tests', Moneytalk automates real, functional interactive tests for iOS and Android apps.

Scripts are simple and understandable
MonkeyTalk IDE can record/playback the test scripts
It does not require any strong programming or scripting knowledge
It supports tethered, network devices and emulators
For both android and iPhone, same script can be used
It supports looping concept
Both XML and HTML reports can be generated with this tool, it also captures screenshot when failure occurs
For continuous integration Monkey Talk supports Jenkins and Hudson. It also supports JUnit reporting

14) Testdroid

Testdroid is a cloud-based mobile application testing tool that helps developers to save costs behind app development, speed up time to market the product and reduce operational and unpredictable costs. It is the fastest way to test your application against various real Android and iOS devices with different HW platforms, screen resolutions, and OS versions. The price range varies from $499- $4999/ month as per requirement. It is one of the solid mobile game testing platforms for Android and iOS games. It allows remote manual access to over 300 real devices running Android before an app is launched.

Benefits of Testdroid

It saves in App development costs
Minimizes the risks with real devices and agile testing
Reduce operational and unpredictable costs
Improve app rating and daily active users

All the above tools provide excellent performance and exciting features for Android application testing.

How to pick the best Automation Tool

Identify the tests that need to be automated
Research and analyze the automation products that meet your automation needs
Do a pilot for two best tools as per your requirements and budget.
Based on the requirements, select the most suitable one or more tools
Discuss the chosen automation tools with other stakeholders, explain the choice, and get their approval
Proceed to tests automation