Generating Robot Framework Test Script for Android Application Using Kotlin

Abstract

As known that a wide variety of hardware and operating system versions are circulating in the Android market. In addition, for the past decade more and more organizations have been adopting iterative and incremental software development approaches to handle rapid requirement changes in software requirements and to accelerate their products to the market. These factors have pushed tons of pressure on software testing, especially in the regression testing step. Regression testing is a pivotal step to ensure that code alterations do not impact the existing functionalities of the software. As software grows larger, regression testing could become impractical, if done manually, since human resource consumption would exponentially increase. To alleviate this issue, many organizations have embraced automation testing in their regression testing steps. Keyword-driven testing is one of the automation testing techniques that has been frequently used on Android projects. However, constructing a test case for automation testing (also known as a test script) is an arduous task which tends to easily cause errors [1]. Therefore, in this research a tool to generate Robot Framework test scripts for Android applications written in Kotlin is proposed. With this tool, an Android project's source code is analyzed for its flow. Next, test cases are generated using AppiumLibrary keywords and the source code. Test data sets embedded in the test cases are generated using Boundary Value Testing and randomization techniques. Finally, the generated test cases are ready to be run on Robot Framework to test the software.