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.