Prima: uma ferramenta para automação de revisão de testes aplicada a plataforma android mobile

Abstract

With the advances of technology, software development is becoming increasingly complex, and the need to test an embedded product with it has become a fundamental factor to avoid failures and fix errors. This factor has great relevance in Android mobile devices, which have complex software and a wide variety of models on the market. In order to ensure quality for consumers, companies are investing in standards and creating rules, as is the case with Google, which provides a series of requirements for homologation of its products on Android devices. Tests related to the homologation of these electronic devices for these regulations generate a large amount of test artifacts at the end of the process, which becomes challenging for pure manual review by the testing developer. Thus, the objective of this thesis is to propose and evaluate an automation tool called PRIMA, to improve quality assurance in Android mobile device testing. To analyze and verify the proposed tool, an experiment was conducted in a real test environment in a particular company in the field, in order to obtain sufficient data for analysis of the scenario. With the results obtained, it was possible to understand that there was a 59% improvement in preventing failures using the test review automation. This result indicates that PRIMA can help prevent failures found at the end of the Android releases homologation process.