Selenium plugin for mobile app testing OR any other better & suitable tools for mobile app testing

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Is there any plugin for Selenium to run automated tests for an (own) app on mobile devices (for the OS iOS, Android and Windows)?

I have searched for 2 hours but the information I found is quite confusing in my opinion.

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 16 '12 at 11:48

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I recommend you to use robotium.

There is also another tool called MonkeyRunner which has a different approach.

answered Nov 16 '12 at 11:48

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Is there recording and playing back facilities on robotium? – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 29 '13 at 04:41

score 2 · Answer 2 · edited Jul 10 '13 at 06:48

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You can go with MonkeyTalk. It provides support for both iPhone and Android. There is also an IDE called MonkeyTalk IDE which is capable of recording and playing back your test cases using either a device or an emulator or simulator what ever you want to use.

For More info visit: MonkeyTalk Documentation

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answered Nov 19 '12 at 10:05

Abhishek_Mishra

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What's the difference between MonkeyRunner and MonkeyTalk? – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 05 '13 at 05:28
Both monkeyrunner and monkeytalk are used for automating android applications and both can run on simulator and devices as well.while with monkeytalk writing scripts is quite easy as it allows the recording feature as well.But with monkey runner no such feature available.Yes Monkey talk is free. – Abhishek_Mishra Jul 05 '13 at 09:47
Does MonkeyRunner support Java? or which language? – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 05 '13 at 10:44
Thanks Abhi_Mishra for your cooperation – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 10 '13 at 06:40

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 29 '15 at 12:29

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At the Official Selenium Blog is stated that selenium is retiring their AndroidDriver and iPhoneDriver in favour of any of:
- selendroid
- ios-driver
- appium

answered Jan 29 '15 at 12:29

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 19 '18 at 11:35

In Today's date there are 2 tools that are dominating mobile app automated testing:

Appium (Open Source)
SeeTest (Licensed)

Why these tools:

Both use underlying iOS instruments and Android sdk, and provide various methods to automated your test cases.
Both have good support available online
Both support same script to be run on both iOS and Android(Crossplatform tesing)
Both support multiple languages for coding scripts (C#, Java etc)
Both support multiple frameworks - TestNG, JUnit etc

score -1 · Answer 5 · answered Jul 10 '13 at 07:48

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You can use Selenium WebDriver for mobile apps testing. It needs to use "android-server-2.32.0.apk" for Android app testing. Download link: Android Driver server apk

Please look at this for AndroidDriver

Please look at this for IPhoneDriver

answered Jul 10 '13 at 07:48

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Android web driver is used to test how your web application behaves and looks in android web browser.It has nothing to do with an android application.Both are different things. – Abhishek_Mishra Jul 10 '13 at 09:15
So, Isn't it possible to test mobile apps using Android WebDriver? – Ripon Al Wasim Jul 11 '13 at 08:44

Selenium plugin for mobile app testing OR any other better & suitable tools for mobile app testing

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