We present AndroidRipper, an automated technique that tests Android apps via their Graphical User Interface (GUI). AndroidRipper is based on a user-interface driven ripper that automatically explores the app's GUI with the aim of exercising the application in a structured manner. We evaluate AndroidRipper on an open-source Android app. Our results show that our GUI-based test cases are able to detect severe, previously unknown, faults in the underlying code, and the structured exploration outperforms a random approach.
Another test automation framework, GUIRipper REF tests Android applications via their GUI by automatically exploring the application with the aim of exercising the application GUI in a structured manner.
Using GUI ripping for automated testing of Android applications
ASE 2012
Computer Science