Automação de testes de aplicações móveis sem necessidade de programação

Abstract

The growing dependency of our society on software systems increasingly more complex, makes the test activities ever more important and challenging. In several areas like healthcare or transportation, many independent systems (mobile applications, cloud services, sensor networks, among others) form distributed and heterogeneous systems much more complex, able to supply end-to-end services to the end users. One of the challenges of this type of systems is the testing of mobile applications that have not only interactions with the remaining of the ecosystem, but also with the user and mobile sensors. Hence, the purpose of this thesis is developing a monitoring and test framework for Android applications based on specifications, that should be able to support the testing of multiplatform applications without being necessary to change or to know the source code. The framework will be able to intersect interaction events from the application (device's sensors, web services, user interactions, among others) with the environment, compare events with a predefined specification of interactions (communications protocols, security specifications, among others) and control applications' execution. This work involves, initially, bibliographic review that identifies the frameworks for monitoring and testing mobile applications already existing. Then, the framework will be developed following an iterative process. Setting the initial strategy, it is necessary to develop an automated test manager, starting by the interaction tests more simple and, initially, applied to a base case. Later, it will be developed more elaborated tests to apply on a general context of applications that uses interaction with the environment. The framework will be validated using real case studies, where at least one will be in the area of Ambient Assisted Living. It is expected that the framework will be useful in software certification processes, where the main objective is to guarantee that an application behaves according to a predefined specification, where the access to source code is limited or even non-existent.