Hrushikesh Zadgaonkar - Robotium Automated Testing for Android

Hrushikesh Zadgaonkar is a Software Developer by profession. He is currently working at Persistent Systems Limited, Nagpur, in the Telecommunication Business Unit. He studied engineering and was a Microsoft Student Partner and IBM Campus Ambassador in his college. He has been actively working on distinct domains such as .NET, Android, and the Robotium Framework. He was appointed as a NetBeans Certified Associate by the Oracle Corporation. Hrushikesh is a semi-finalist for the Imagine Cup 2010, a global competition organized annually by Microsoft. His research paper was selected for presentation at the CSE-IT International Level Conference 2010, Thailand.

He has been actively participating in various technical events in different colleges in Nagpur. His leisure activities include portrait sketching, playing the tabla, guitar, and sports such as cricket, football, and snooker. He is fond of social networking and appreciates innovation. He is a quick learner. Hrushikesh is an uncompromising fan of Sachin Tendulkar and Manchester United Football Club. His music interests lie with Enrique Iglesias, Bryan Adams, and A.R. Rahman.

When he isn't coding, he likes to hang out with his family and friends. He finds time every day to workout at the gymnasium. He is popularly called "Mr. Z" among his colleagues. He currently lives in Nagpur, India with his parents.

You can mail him at <> and he can be found tweeting at @MsWizKid.

I wish to thank my Mother who have always guided and supported me throughout my life and made me capable!

Krzysztof Fona was born for programming. He started by trying to write a simple game on Commodore 64 at the age of 11. Between the ages of 13 and 16, he wrote a series of Ski Jump Manager games in Delphi (there were at least a 1,000 downloads). In December 2011, he graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology, having at that time 1.5 years of experience in commercial .NET development (in PGS Software). In January 2012, he started work at Bitbar, a company which makes mobile test automation tools that are used by the biggest companies in the world. His office is not only the place when he develops. Recently, he launched his first Android game (Air Hockey), hoping there will be more of his titles on Google Play. Other than development, he likes sports (he won a few medals for powerlifting at Poland's tournaments), movies, and computer games.

Other books he might work on are about Android, Java, and Jenkins.

I'd like to thank my wife for having patiently lived with a nerd.

Micha Szpruta is a Software Engineer at Bitbar. He works at a group of projects called Testdroid. Micha has got experience with Robotium because of developing the Eclipse plugin called Testdroid Recorder for recording user actions, and generating reusable test cases (written in Robotium). He is the co-author of the library, which extends Robotium-recorder extensions with the main class ExtSolo, which can be found under: http://docs.testdroid.com/_pages/extsolo.html.

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Preface

Automation testing on mobile devices has been around for a number of years, although it has really taken off with the advent of the Robotium Framework.

With the help of automating test cases, business components are extensively reused and help to execute complex test cases. Due to a number of different key features added to the Robotium Framework, it has been the world's leading Android test automation framework and most industry experts and professionals are using this framework for testing their Android business applications.

The main aim to bring this book into the market is to provide users with detailed knowledge of the Robotium Framework and its features. After reading it, you should be good to go and create the automated test cases and run them for your Android project!

Welcome to Robotium automated testing for Android!

What this book covers

, Getting Started with Robotium , discusses the Robotium Framework and helps us install and set up the Android environment on Windows in a step-by-step manner.