UiMutilator

Introducing the UiMutilator - Android UI Testing on several devices that requires interaction. Perfect for automating UI testing for apps that relies heavily on interaction, for example chat apps. Don't like jUnit? No problems, with UiMutilator you can use any test runner such as TestNG to drive the UI tests.

The UiMutilator exposes a similar interface as the Android UiAutomator. However, this UiMutilator is capable of running on multiple devices.

Usage

The methods exposed by UiMutilator differs in two major ways: The getUiDevice() method and the newUiObject() method.

Instead of calling getUiDevice() like in the Android UiAutomator, you can getUiDevice().any() to connect to any device connected to your computer. You can also use other methods such as getUiDevice().number(1) or getUiDevice().withSerial("emulator-554") to select which device to run the test on.

This has the advantage of beeing to interleave ui commands and assertions between two devices.

Instead of calling new UiObject() like in the Android UiAutomator, you have to call uiDevice.newUiObject(). This is because UiMutilator needs to know on which device you intend to act, since a test may be connected to several devices.

Example

This is an example of a UiMutilator test

@Test
public void testGetText() throws Exception {
	UiDevice uiDevice = getUiDevice().any();
	uiDevice.pressHome();
	uiDevice.pressMenu();
		
	UiObject settingsOption = uiDevice.newUiObject(new UiSelector().text("System settings"));
	settingsOption.clickAndWaitForNewWindow();
		
	UiObject sound = uiDevice.newUiObject(new UiSelector().text("Sound"));
	Assert.assertEquals("Sound", sound.getText());
}

Building

To build the 'UiMutilator.jar' from source file follow the following instructions.

• Build the ant file 'command-tests/build.xml' with tharget 'build'.
• Build the classes in the src folder.
• export alla class files generated from the sources in the src folder and, this is important, also export the command-tests/bin/command-tests.jar.

This can be done easily in for example Eclipse. There is also a test suite containing a few demonstration tests inside the test source folder.

Author

Created by Samuel Carlsson [email protected] & Johannes Elgh [email protected]