Practical Android Test Recording with Espresso Test RecorderSEIPIndustry Program
Tests for mobile apps can be difficult to write, are often fragile, unreliable, and come with a significant maintenance burden. As a result, many developers write few or no tests and instead rely on expensive and error-prone manual testing. We present Espresso Test Recorder, a practical approach to test creation for Android. Espresso Test Recorder employs a novel technique based on the Java Debugger to reliably capture UI interactions and generate robust well-formed instrumentation tests, which can be used across a wide range of devices. In this paper, we report on how we designed, built, and productionized Espresso Test Recorder in Android Studio, where it has been employed by thousands of users throughout the world to record tests with minimal effort.
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16:00 - 18:00 | Mobile AppsJournal-First Papers / Technical Track / Software Engineering in Practice / Papers / New Ideas and Emerging Results at Mansfield / Sherbrooke Chair(s): Sandeep Kuttal The University of Tulsa | ||
16:00 20mTalk | Large-scale Empirical Study on Industrial Fake AppsSEIPIndustry Program Software Engineering in Practice Chongbin Tang East China Normal University, Sen Chen Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lingling Fan Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Lihua Xu , Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Zhushou Tang Pwnzen Infotech Inc., Liang Dou East China Normal University | ||
16:20 20mTalk | Practical Android Test Recording with Espresso Test RecorderSEIPIndustry Program Software Engineering in Practice | ||
16:40 20mTalk | Mimic: UI Compatibility Testing System for Android AppsTechnical Track Technical Track Taeyeon Ki Samsung Research America, Chang Min Park University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Karthik Dantu University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Steve Ko University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Lukasz Ziarek SUNY Buffalo, USA | ||
17:00 20mTalk | IconIntent: Automatic Identification of Sensitive UI Widgets based on Icon Classification for Android AppsTechnical Track Technical Track Xusheng Xiao Case Western Reserve University, Xiaoyin Wang University of Texas at San Antonio, USA, Zhihao Cao Case Western Reserve University, Hanlin Wang Case Western Reserve University, Peng Gao Princeton University Pre-print | ||
17:20 10mTalk | Studying Bad Updates of Top Free-to-Download Apps in the Google Play StoreIndustry ProgramJournal-First Journal-First Papers Safwat Hassan Queens University, Kingston, Canada, Cor-Paul Bezemer University of Alberta, Canada, Ahmed E. Hassan Queen's University | ||
17:30 10mTalk | Navigation-aware and Personalized Prefetching of Network Requests in Android AppsIndustry ProgramNIER New Ideas and Emerging Results Ivano Malavolta Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Francesco Nocera Polytechnic University of Bari, Patricia Lago Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Marina Mongiello Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy Pre-print Media Attached | ||
17:40 20mTalk | Discussion Period Papers | ||