10 Best Automation Testing Tools For Android
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Published: 2020-10-17 06:52:23

As the day passes, automation is growing and acquiring more and more industries. It saves time and energy of humans by performing monotonous tasks with predefined standards. Also, it streamlines the business operations and also accomplishes smooth organizational processes. IT  industry is also leveraging automation and it’s best example is automation testing tools. Testing is a crucial phase of software development. A web or mobile application without testing is not considered as a reliable one. Users might face bugs, low system performance, malfunctioning of the features due to low level of testing. Eventually it reduces a client base. So for more accuracy, automated testing tools are here for you. Properly organized automated testing reduces the time required for a testing process.

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There is a wide variety of tools for automation. Some are free, whereas others are expensive. Each tool is unique and possesses certain characteristics. Due to the wide variety of tools available, you may face difficulty to select the most suitable one for a project.  So as to make automated tests effective you should-

Research software product under test and project.
Clearly determine what tests are to be automated.
Figure out the requirements to the automated tests and tools for automation.
Do study of some more or less available tools for automation
Choose the most suitable one or more tools based on research
Discuss the selected automation tools with project team, and get permission to use
Proceed to tests automation
Let us see the details of Automated Testing Tools For Android.

#Automation Testing Tools For Android-
**1. Appium-**
It is an open source, and a cross platform Mobile Testing 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. This tool supports various programming languages like Java, Ruby, C# and others which are in the WebDriver library. Also it has the ability to easily  test multiple devices in parallel. Appium automates the android by using the UIAutomator library given by Google as a part of Android SDK. It can control Safari and Chrome on mobile devices. Also, can be synchronized with testing framework TestNG. Here UI Automator can produce informative and detailed reports, like reports generated by Ranorex.

In addition to this, appium has support from a large open-source community and is easy to install and a low maintenance tool. 

*Benefits-*

* There is no need to recompile the application as it has a standard robotization APIs.
* You can use any web-driver compatible language(Java, Objective-C, Javascript) to write test cases
* Freedom to use any testing framework
* Appium is easy to setup on a different platform
* It doesn’t require anything to be installed on a device
* It can be integrated with other tools with the help of Java

**2. Selendroid-**
Selendroid is an automation framework for hybrid android apps and mobile web. It supports Windows, Mac and Linux OS. Also supports test writing with Selenium 2 client API. Selendroid is useful for emulators and real devices. Integration with Selenium Grid is allowed to make it scalable and a platform for parallel testing.

*Features-*

* It is compatible with JSON Wire Protocol
* Has built-in Android driver web view a[[ to test the mobile web.
* It allows you to find UI elements through different locator types
* Also supports hot plugging of hardware devices

**3. Kobiton-**
It is an automation tool that has both free and paid versions. And both of them gives testers the ability to check the real devices. It also supports automation of actions that manual testing would require. This includes speaker and camera control, orientation, GPS simulations, multi-touch gestures, connection management and so on.

Kobiton will also capture all the actions by the tester so identify and resolve issues is more easy and quick.

*Features-*

* Supports Appium 1.6.4
* Simplified user experience to streamline test sessions
* Centralized testing history and data logs for increased collaboration
* With Kobiton you will get scriptless automation on any device.
* This intelligent test automation will allow you to perform manual testing on one device and replicate the same test on hundreds of devices.

**4. Squish-**
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