What is Robotium?
It is an Android test automation framework that has full support for native and hybrid applications. It makes it easy to write powerful and robust automatic black-box UI tests for Android applications.
Robotium is a tool in the Mobile Test Automation category of a tech stack.
Robotium is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Robotium's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Robotium?
Companies
Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Robotium.
Robotium Integrations
Android Studio, Gradle, Apache Maven, Eclipse, and Android OS are some of the popular tools that integrate with Robotium. Here's a list of all 6 tools that integrate with Robotium.
Robotium's Features
- Test Android apps, both native and hybrid
- Requires minimal knowledge of the application under test
- The framework handles multiple Android activities automatically
- Minimal time needed to write solid test cases
- Readability of test cases is greatly improved, compared to standard instrumentation tests
Robotium Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Robotium?
Selendroid
Selendroid is a test automation framework which drives off the UI of Android native and hybrid applications (apps) and the mobile web. Tests are written using the Selenium 2 client API
Appium
Appium is an open source test automation framework for use with native, hybrid, and mobile web apps. It drives iOS and Android apps using the WebDriver protocol. Appium is sponsored by Sauce Labs and a thriving community of open source developers.
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
Robolectric
It is a framework that brings fast and reliable unit tests to Android. Tests run inside the JVM on your workstation in seconds. Test drive your Android application with robolectric
BitBar
Testdroid provides a set of products for Android and iOS app/game testing on real devices. With different testing solutions, you can efficiently develop and test your mobile apps/games in agile way and achieve your business goals.
