Automated Testing Tools for Mobile Applications: A Literature Review

Abstract

The rapid growth of demand for mobility made the mobile application development a fast-emerging area in software development. As years pass by, the product of software development has become increasingly complex. This makes test activities even more important and challenging.  Tom Taulli, a Forbes contributor, denotes the importance of mobile application testing. He stated that users are more likely to abandon an application if it has functionality problems. Although there are several testing tools already available in the market, there were no empirical studies found that explore and analyze these tools in detail. Hence, this paper aims to discuss and provide a comparison of different cross-platform automated testing tools for mobile applications particularly for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile. Most of the papers were addressing test cases for app’s function and behavior. The least number of papers aims to test security loopholes on mobile applications. It is worth noting that the papers focused on applications running on Android devices, there were no tools that address applications for other platforms such as iOS and Windows Phone.