Selendroid(Introduction)

        

About Selendroid:

Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web. Tests are written using the WebDriver client API.

Solenoid can be used on emulators and real devices and can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing.

Overview about the Selendroid:

Selendroid is based on the Android instrumentation framework, so therefor only testing one app is supported. Selendroid contains four major components:

ü Selendroid-Client - the java client library (based on the selenium java client).

ü Selendroid-Server - that is running beside your app on the Android device.

ü Android Driver-App - a build in Android driver web view app to test the mobile web.

ü Selendroid-Standalone - manages different Android devices by installing the Selendroid-server and the app under test.

The selendroid-standalone-0.7.0.jar does contains the standalone-server, Selendroid-server and as well the Selendroid-client driver.

Selendroid-Server:

Central driver class is Default Selendroid Server. That class is responsible for doing the common activities (like taking screenshots) for both contexts Native_app and Web_app.

The web view related driver class is SelendroidWebDriver and native class is SelendroidNativeDriver.

Selendroid-Standalone:

Central driver class is Selendroid Standalone Driver that acts as a proxy between the Selendroid-client and the Selendroid-server and starts e.g. an Android emulator, creates for the app under test a customized Selendroid-server and installs everything on the device.

Features of Selendroid:

ü The only mobile WebDriver that supports native & hybrid apps on Android version.

ü The app under test must not be modified in order to automate it

ü Different locator types are supported to find elements

ü Gestures are supported: Advanced User Interactions API

ü Selendroid can interact with multiple Android devices (emulators or hardware devices) at the same time

ü Existing Android emulators are started automatically

ü It can be integrated as a node into the Selenium Grid for scaling and parallel testing

ü Build in Inspector to simplify test case development.

ü Full compatibility to the WebDriver JSON Wire protocol.

Selendroid Architecture:

System Requirements:

ü Selendroid is tested to run on Mac, Linux and Windows.

ü Java SDK (minimum 1.6) is installed and JAVA_HOME is configured

ü Latest Android-SDK is installed and ANDROID_HOME is set.

ü At least one Android virtual device must exist or an Android hardware device must be plugged in to the computer