Thursday, October 7, 2010

Automated Acceptance Testing on iOS

Deepak Gole

Innovator, Sapna Solutions Saager Mhatre

Independent Consultant

What is Acceptance Testing • What we are trying to verify?

• Why we need to verify?

• Why automate it?

State of current ecosystem • Tools available

o iCuke

o UIAutomation

• Their capabilities and maturity

UI Automation • Demo

• Sweet spot o First class integration

o Gestures + Introspection

• Shortcomings

o Can't be run headless

o API is still cumbersome

iCuke • Demo

• Sweet spot • Shortcomings

Comparative analysis of tools • UIAutomation has first class integration with app

• iCuke can automate entire process

• UIAutomation can also work on devices

• iCuke can automate iPad too