SIKULI for Mobile Testing

Tom Yeh

Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Computer Science

University of Colorado Boulder

Mobile Testing Summit 2012

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Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5

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Are they different?

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Test 1 Test 2 Test 3 Test 4 Test 5

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Step 1: Click on

Which row?Which column?What component ID?What name?What label?

Think programming

Think Sikuli

Which does it look like?

Step 1: Click on

Step 1: Click on

Goal: Uncheck Contacts

What’s wrong?

Harvard Medical School

Too Visual

400 manual test cases

5 hours of labour

2xrelease rate

TELENAVGPS App Maker

Too New

Tests are automated via

emulators

NASA

Too Old

NASA’s part supplier

Tests are automated through a remote

desktop connection

Too Visual Too New Too Old

What’s coming?

http://www.cuberick.com/2010/06/testing-image-generation-with-cucumber.html

Mobile Testing goes Physical

Visual

Mobile Testing goes Physical

Baxter by Rethink Robotics

Baxter by Rethink Robotics