The use of mobile applications continues to increase as mobile devices continue to become more and more ubiquitous. According to research reported by MarketWatch, mobile purchases account for 14% of online purchases, and that is expected to increase substantially in the near future.  So it's easy to reach customer via mobile Apps and it's better to reach them right. Thats where Android testing comes in.

ITZ's innovative Automation approach can help customers to test their apps in variety of android devices and android versions.

• How to Automate Android Apps

• Benefits of Automation 

1. Appium client (Java/Python/etc) connects with Appium Server and communicates via JSON Wire Protocol.

2. Appium Server then creates an automation session for the client and also checks the desired capabilities of the client. It then connects with the respective vendor-provided frameworks like UIAutomator.

3. UIAutomator will then communicate with bootstrap.jar which is running in simulator/emulator/real device for performing client operations.

4. Here, bootstrap.jar plays the role of a TCP server, which we can use to send the test command in order to perform the action on the Android device using UIAutomator.

Benefits of Automating Android apps

• Simplifying test execution 

• Increasing speed of executing tests (test scripts)

• Increasing the amount of test coverage

• Improving the reliability of tests

• Test in Variety of Android Versions and Android Devices

• Shortening software development cycles

• Minimizing human interaction with testing, Eliminating boring tasks

• Reducing maintenance cost of testing

• Improving accuracy of software tests

• Saving time and money

• Developing software values

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