Research on automated testing framework for multi-platform mobile applications

Automated testing framework is a platform or a standard for software automation testing, which can provide a reusable foundation for automated test modules and provide automated test management functions. This paper presents a new automated testing framework for the multi-platform mobile applications. MATF (Multi-platform Automatic Testing Framework) uses keyword driven test technology. The framework encapsulates and expands the Appium which is a standard for mobile test automation. It integrates test case management, test plan management, test script generation, test execution and test report generation. The framework can parse the test cases and generate test scripts which apply to the applications of both iOS platform and Android platform automatically. The test results can be recorded to generate test reports by this framework. MATF does not need testers to write the test scripts, which can greatly reduce the costs of testing. The test scripts run stably under this framework. And the test reports are consistent with the results by actual manual testing.