Data driven architecture based automated test generation for Android mobile

Test generation automation using Data Driven Architecture (DDA) is a challenging task. It involves an external database to feed test inputs to a test case sequentially. Same test case is executed repeatedly in a loop, to handle different test inputs. In this paper, a method is proposed to generate DDA based tests for Android mobiles. A tool called Virtual Test Engineer (VTE), which generates tests from Sequence diagram, is extended to incorporate DDA based test generation. Sqlite database is used to store test inputs. Test driver is generated automatically from Sequence diagram in the form of XML file. An Android application package (APK) is generated automatically to handle this XML file and Sqlite database file and subsequently execute the test cases. The effectiveness of this method is discussed from experimental results. Comparison has been made of the proposed method with others and the proposed method has been found to be more effective.