Kraken 2.0: A platform-agnostic and cross-device interaction testing tool

Abstract

Nowadays applications that require the interaction and collaboration of two or more users simultaneously via different devices such as web browsers and mobile phones are becoming more and more frequent in a time where cross-device and cross-play features are demanded by final users, thus, to ensure high quality of those products, software engineers are adopting test automation techniques that can optimize their quality assurance processes. In previous work we presented Kraken 2.0, a publicly available cross-device testing tool that completely reconstructed the Kraken 1.0 architecture and enables a tester to write, run, and validate test scenarios that involve the interaction of web and mobile devices in parallel by implementing test scripts created with the Gherkin syntax. In this paper, we provide more details about the Kraken 2.0 architecture and describe new features such as extraction of GUI snapshots and definition of test scripts in an automation API fashion. • Automated testing for cross-device scenarios is a field not well explored yet, even more evident when considering web and mobile interactions. • Mobile applications that involve the interaction of two or more users are becoming more common nowadays. • Kraken allows E2E testing across multiple Android and web devices.