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Smartphone Automation Testing Tools – Features to Look for and Easy-to-Use Tools!

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Do you know that in 2021, as per statistics, the number of smartphone users worldwide has reached 3.8 billion? And this count is increasing exponentially. With this, the demand for mobile applications is also growing.

Mobile applications are now easy to create using easy-to-use tools, thus encouraging even citizen developers to join the bandwagon to develop and publish them. Since mobile apps are in high demand, the mobile testers must test them thoroughly before being released to the customer. Similarly, several trending smartphone app automation testing tools are now available, making testing easy, fast, and efficient.

Features to look out for in a mobile test automation tool

Here are the top features for mobile app automation testing tools that you should look out for while choosing one for your QA project.

  • Easy to build test automation scripts – Automation test scripts should be easy to develop. Zero or fewer code platforms are making this possible with record playback, drag, and drop interfaces.
  • High Test coverage support – Should be able to support easy integration to test against many combinations of devices, browsers, versions.
  • AI-powered – Automation tools, when powered by AI, make test automation easy. For example, Self-healing is a feature that helps fix code itself without any manual intervention.
  • Clear test reports – Automation test tools that provide deep insights into the test automation tools help the stakeholders, business analysts, managers, understand the quality of the product under test at any point in time.
  • Cloud-enabled – With private and public cloud-enabled deployments
  • Flexibility – Automation tools that integrate with 3rd party tools. With that, you can retain tools that you may be already having.
  • Multi Programming language support – Platforms that let you automate using several programming languages
  • Parallel and remote testing
  • Scalability – These tools ideally should support unlimited users, concurrency on several types of mobile devices. Scaling up and down should be easy.
  • Agility – Tools that amplify the DevOps culture of the team are a boon. When automation tools integrate with tools like Jenkins, TeamCity, Slack, etc., it is possible.
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Appium Test Automation Framework

Appium Test Automation Framework

Appium powers up most of the trending test automation tools. It is open-source and supports test automation on native, hybrid, and mobile web applications.

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TestProject

TestProject

This free-to-use automation test platform is used for mobile testing powered by Appium. Its Artificial Intelligence-powered Mobile Test Recorder, Real-time mobile Screen mirroring can be associated with Android or Ios mobile applications testing.

They also have the Self-healing AI capability, which reduces test maintenance efforts. It can be integrated with a cloud-enabled mobile testing platform called BrowserStack, making it possible to test your app against thousands of types of devices and their versions.

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BrowserStack App Live

BrowserStack App Live

BrowserStack App Live tool can be used for mobile testing, supporting testing on thousands of types of devices, platforms, operating systems, and browsers.

Mobile testers can use the tool to test the responsiveness of a website and the localization, geo-location features. It can be integrated with tools like TestProject.

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pCloudy

pCloudy

pCloudy has an impressive UX for mobile app testing, making it easy to develop test scripts for mobile app testing.

Using the public Cloud, Software development teams can set up private Cloud or on-prem setups, 2K+ browsers, device combinations for mobile app testing.

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Perfecto

Perfecto

Perfecto enables test automation developers to develop Mobile app tests that have comprehensive test coverage supported by Appium. It supports testing on the Cloud encompassing several combinations of devices, browsers.

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Kobiton

Kobiton

Kobiton, mobile testing tool, is used for functional testing, visual and performance testing on real mobile devices, deployed in the Cloud, or the on-prem setup.