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Android Application Development with Maven

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Android Application Development with Maven

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (14 chapters)

UI Tests made easy with Selendroid


So far, we examined frameworks and tools that focus on Android components such as activities, services, intents, and so on. This is, with no doubt, very useful, but one of the key factors for a successful mobile application is a bug-free UI. In this section, we will discuss one of the most popular—and easy to use with Maven—tools for UI: Selendroid (http://selendroid.io/). One might argue that Selendroid is not the only available options for Android UI Testing, and this is absolutely true. It is a highly emerging field, but at the time of writing the book we had to pick only one of them due to the limited number of pages. We made our choice based on the level of integration with Maven, the maturity, stability, and the easiness of writing test cases.

Selendroid is a testing framework for native, hybrid, and mobile web applications based on Selenium, the most popular web UI testing framework. To use Selendroid, you should have a basic knowledge of Selenium...