Automated Mobile Testing as a Service (AM-TaaS)

Due high popularization of cloud services and the use of a wide range of mobile devices with different environments and platforms, a new model to offer software test service emerged, called Testing as a Service (TaaS). It uses cloud infrastructure to provide on-demand testing services on cloud for end users at any time. Nowadays there are many studies about different services about TaaS. Based on this scenario, we propose a framework, called Automated Mobile Testing as a Service (AM-TaaS), which offers automated test for mobile applications based on AQuA's test criteria. We performed an experiment emulating nine Android mobile devices with different characteristics in order to test the criterion "OTA Install" (automated installation of mobile applications in a device). We emulated devices under virtual machines and cloud infrastructure. Experimental results show 100% of the emulated devices could be tested using automated test cases designed in the framework for this test criterion.