Cloud Test : melhoria da confiabilidade de testes mobile com a utilização de computação em nuvem

Abstract

The execution of automated tests to validate the main functionalities of an application is often a process carried out using a local infrastructure, especially when seeking quality assurance by performing tests on real devices. The process of maintaining a local infrastructure requires specialized labor and financial resources, since smartphones are constantly being recycled, given the rise and launch of new models in the market. Soon, developers are faced with a situation: guaranteeing the performance and execution of their application in different models of smartphones that are currently in use, while delivering efficiency in the execution of tests. In the face of this scenario, the search for new methods of executing mobile tests is increasingly evident. It is in this context that the use of cloud computing environments to perform mobile tests using real devices is highlighted. This work presents a comparative study of mobile tests between the local and cloud environments using real devices for testing. To carry out this comparison, a mobile testing project was built using tools such as Selenium (Framework for testing automation), Appium (Framework for automation of mobile tests), TestNG (Framework for testing execution) and Javascript programming language for an Android application. A cloud environment was selected for comparison with the local environment. Then a series of executions was carried out using the same real device in both environments, with the execution results being collected at the end of each cycle. Finally, standard deviation, average of results and 95% confidence interval for the experiment were calculated in order to verify the gains obtained with the use of cloud for testing.