Automated Software Testing on Mobile Applications: A Review with Special Focus on Android Platform

Development of mobile applications and hence testing them with automated tools are rapidly achieving grounds on the technology market with the explosive evolution, demand and use of mobile technology. Although automated software testing has been a topic of research for many years, automation testing on mobile application is being a key topic in the software engineering industry and hence the development and introduction of new automated tools have gained attention in the recent years. This research aims at identifying, analyzing, and synthesizing the current state-of-the-art of automated testing on mobile application with special focus on to the popular mobile application platform "Android". A systematic literature review was conducted on studies retrieved from electronic search space. Various literature reviewed and referred there in, as a conclusion, its obvious that none of the techniques used in automated testing is alone inadequate and a combination of them works well as an effective testing strategy. Also, the challenges thus faced by the practitioners of automated testing could be still mitigated with an efficient selection of testing tool.