Android testing using Selenium:

As we all know selenium supports android testing and below I will demonstrate opening a Google page in android emulator.

For android testing in selenium first we have to down load the Android SDK, and unzip it.

Go to Eclipse IDE and perform the below mentioned steps

1. Help-> Install New Software..

·         Click on “Add…” button

·         Name : Enter name <<Android_Plugin>>

·         Location: Enter the URL https://dl-ssl.google.com/android/eclipse/

·         Click on “Ok” button

·         Click on “Select All” button or check all the check boxes

·         Click on “Next” button

After importing the android plug-in the below screen will be displayed, click on “Next” button

Select the “I accept the terms of license agreement” radio button and click on “Finish” button

Wait until the software is installed, If it throws any warning click “OK” button. After the installation it will ask for the restart eclipse, Click on “Yes” button.

After the eclipse restart perform the below steps

2. Windows-> Preferences

·         Select “Android“ in left side tree options

·         Click on “Browse” button in front of SDK Location text box

·         Select downloaded file “android-sdk-windows”

·         Click on “OK” button

·         Click on “Apply” and “OK” button as below

Ex: << C:\android-sdk-windows>>

Note: The downloaded “android-sdk-windows”file should contain the “android-17” in platforms folder.

If the file does not contain the“android-17” in platforms folder the perform the below steps.

• Windows-> Android SDK Manager

o    Select all the Available Packages in Android SDK Manager

o    Like Tools, Android 4.3 (API 18), Android 4.2.2 (API 17) etc..

o    Click on “Install Packages…”

Installation will take some time, after installation close the Android SDK Manager window

• Navigate to “android-sdk-windows” file Ex: C:\android-sdk-windows\platforms and check for “android-17” folder exists.

3. Download “android-server-2.21.0.apk ” from the following locationhttp://code.google.com/p/selenium/downloads/list and Copy the downloaded file into folder “C:\ android-sdk-windows\platform-tools”.

4. Navigate to Eclipse IDE Windows >> Android Virtual Device Manage

· Click on “New…” button

· Enter AVD Name: <<Sample1>>

· Select Device: <<Nexus One (3.7”, 480 * 800: hdpi)>>

· Select Target: <<Android 4.2.2 – API Level 17>>

· Click on “OK” button

• Select the added Android Virtual device and click on “Start” button and click on “Launch” button, the emulator will start opening as below

• For the first time it will take quite long time to open emulator. Once the emulator is opened close the Android Virtual Device Manager window. The emulator looks like below

5. Run the “Command Prompt” as administrator and execute the below commands

· Execute“cd C:\ android-sdk-windows \platform-tools”

· Execute the command “adb install android-server-2.21.0. apk”

 

• We also need to set up Port forwarding, run the command “adb forward tcp:8080 tcp:8080"

6. After the APK install successfully the WebDriver icon will appear in emulator. Click on the WebDriver app on Emulator and this will make the android server available at “http://localhost:8080/wd/hub”.Opening this URL in Firefox will show up a blank page on success.

 

Now create new project for android and copy the below script which just opens the google page in emulator.

package com.Google.Adroid;

import java.util.Properties;

import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;

import junit.framework.TestCase;

import org.openqa.selenium.By;

import org.openqa.selenium.android.AndroidDriver;

public class AndroidSampleProj extends TestCase {

      static Properties prop = System.getProperties();

      public void testProj() throws Exception {

            // Retrieve the project absolute class path

            prop.setProperty("", getClassPath());

            System.out.println(getClassPath());

            // Android Instance creation

            AndroidDriver driv = new AndroidDriver();

            // Implicit wait

            driv.manage().timeouts().implicitlyWait(30, TimeUnit.SECONDS);

            // AUT AppURL

            driv.get("http://www.Google.com");

            // Assertion for Link presence.

            assert driv.findElement(By.linkText("work")).isDisplayed();

            // Click on the work link

            driv.findElement(By.linkText("work")).click();

            // Log the Page title

            System.out.println("Page Title : " + driv.getTitle());

            // Quitting the Android Web Driver

            driv.quit();

      }

static String getClassPath() {

            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            return prop.getProperty("java.class.path", null);

      }

}

Right click and select option Run As >> 2 JUnit Test and the script runs perfectly