Top Mobile Testing Tools In 2017 for Android & iOS
We all know that, in the present scenario of mobile application development automated testing tools are essential for any mobile app testing in order to get best results. Automated testing helps in reducing the time needed for the testing process and the probability of human errors during test execution. There are many automation tools available. A lot of them are open source while some are expensive. Some of these automation tools were created in the past; while some have just made it in to the market. Each tool is exclusive and possesses certain characteristics. Listed below are some of the best automation testing tools for mobile app:
Kobiton:
It is a complete mobile device cloud platform that gives developers and businesses right to use to test on real devices. By the use of this tool you can test your mobile, web apps and hybrid apps very effectively and easy.
This tool provides users full access of real mobile devices during manual testing with support for multitouch gestures, orientation and GPS simulations, and camera and speaker control and device connection management. You can also prefer to
Appium:
This tool is an open source, and a cross platform test automation 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. You can also prefer to hire software testing services in order to run your application effectively. It supports several programming languages, such as JAVA, C# and other webdriver library. You can very easily integrate this tool with other tools with the help of java.
Robotium:
This comes under the category of free android testing tools for UI. By the use of this tool it is very easy to write test cases for android applications. So testers need not to worry about the additional information about the implemented classes and Android app's structure. They just need the name of the class and the path that links to it. It supports Android 1.6 version and above. Test cases for this tool are written in JAVA language, so you need to have little bit knowledge of java. The main disadvantage with this tool is that it takes lots of time to prepare test cases as software tester need to work with the program source code for automating tests.
WebLOAD:
It is generally used for checking the mobile performance. Load testing is there to check the performance if your mobile. This is the only way to check how many mobile users can handle your website. WebLOAD allows you to load test any situation so you know exactly what your Android and iOS users experience. You can either simulate or run real mobile devices (and so copy real mobile user experience).
Calabash (Android and iOS):
This is maintained by Xamarin and Calabash and it is an automated testing framework. You can also compare this tool with selenium web driver also. This is used in mobile native apps to perform automated functional testing. It is having two open source libraries one is for iOS and other is for Android for testing native and hybrid aps.