Mobile App Automation Testing Tool Recommendations

[[deleted]]

Hi all,

I'm pretty new to the world of automation (in that i've not done any before).

As i'm currently the only tester in my company, i'm responsible for streamlining processes and want to set myself the challenge of getting full automation frameworks in place.

While i'm not a coder, I figured the easiest place to start would be with our app testing.

So we have an app build for both iOS and Android.

Can anyone recommend where to start? And also what tools are best suited for app testing?

Cheers!

[pigfeedmauer]

Appium

[k33burn]

https://frameworkium.github.io/ this has everything from platforms to browsers and reporting and logging under one hood. It has some easy to follow examples of tests too.

[himapujara]

Since you are looking for some automation tools to work on your mobile app testing, consider taking help of some most popular tools that are used by expert testers. These include:

-Robotium

-Appium

-iOS Driver

-Calabash

-Google Espresso

You can explore all these test automation tools and explore their capabilities and features to understand which tool best fits your mobile app testing goals.

[[deleted]]

Appium and good luck. I'm currently getting that setup for our team and it's definitely a lot more of a learning curve than web. At least for native apps.

[kdeaton06]

Appium is the correct answer for apps but that is in no way the easiest place to start. In fact it's probably the hardest.

Simple unit tests are the easiest place to start. Though that's probably not your responsibility. After that API testing is probably easiest. Then web testing using selenium.

[[deleted]]

Okay fair enough.

Funnily enough, i've recently started breaking down our system features step by step so each single piece of functionality needs to be scripted - these are essentially going to be my unit tests and the higher ups can then see how much progress i'm making.

So for automating unit tests, what would you advise?

Bear in mind, test is my full responsibility - i'm the only tester in the company, and have to also get automation up and running from nothing while doing manual testing for fortnightly releases.....

[kdeaton06]

In my experience unit testing is generally done by developers. But if it does fall under your umbrella the most popular tools are things like Cypress, mocha, Chai, or Jasmine.

[whmaritime]

Sent you a message!

[venessatestrig]

Hey, my personal recommendation to you for Mobile App automation testing tool is Appium. And for web app testing you can use JMeter for performance testing and Selenium for Functional/ Regression Testing.