Question

Is there any Tool Available in the market to test the localized mobile apps under different locales.
Like, the Typical Tests performed on localized mobile apps will be ..
1)Application functionality – For basic navigation
2)String Truncation Validation
3)Validate the translated Symbols and Images must be appropriate to the Target Language

and so on ..

Please provide me your valuable information on this ..
Really thankful to you..

Answer 1

I have some experience using Robotium to automate the localization testing of our mobile applications.

The main thing you want to look for in any automation solution for localized applications on any platform, is the ability to uniquely identify each object you will need to interact with (buttons etc.), using an identifier that will not change on different locales. That way, your automation code will run on any locale (we would not want to have a different code base per locale).

In my experience, it’s much quicker to develop a Robotium (Java based) solution for automated testing of Android applications (other solutions such as SeeTest exist, but I have not found it great).

QTP I’ve found to be very useful for desktop applications, but not mobile. Selenium is good for automating web applications, and you can use Selenium Mobile to interact with the browser on a mobile device if you need to.

I blogged recently detailing how we use Robotium to test our Android application, and my experiences using it, you can find this at the link below.

Automate your Android App Testing Using Robotium