An Essential Guide to Automated GUI Testing Of Android Mobile Applications

Mobile platform has taken over all aspects of human activities, and researchers are emphasising on providing efficient and bug free applications running on mobile platform. As the time to market for mobile applications are very short so there is a need for techniques which are automated and provide robust and reliable applications. Although manual testing is the most popular technique for testing graphical user interfaces, but manual testing is often cumbersome and prone to errors. This paper presents a literature review of existing Automated GUI Testing of Android Applications techniques. Because of popularity and open-source nature of android devices the focus of research paper is on techniques used in Android devices.