Kaspresso: Kaspersky is making its tool for checking Android apps before they are released to the market open access. The tool, called Kaspresso, has flexible settings and is easy to use.
With Kaspresso, mobile app developers can significantly reduce the time required to test their app without the fear of missing a bug, thus accelerating the app release process. The tool has already received positive feedback at two major technology conferences – Mobilization IX and Codemotion Berlin 2019.
It is quite difficult for mobile developers to choose a suitable automated testing tool that will reduce the time to launch of the application. Today, there are tools for conducting automated tests, such as Espresso and Appium. However, these cannot solve all the problems of Android developers, such as their concerns around readability, logging, and UI test architecture.
The issues mentioned above prevent mobile app developers from writing clean, stable, maintainable, and understandable UI tests. To solve the existing problems by making UI testing easy, Kaspersky has introduced a new Android app testing tool, called Kaspresso. The tool is based on two libraries for creating automated Android tests – Espresso and Kakao.
Thanks to the inclusion of the Kakao library, Kaspresso improves the readability of UI tests, bringing test descriptions to a new level, making them more understandable.
“We decided to make Kaspresso publicly available, as creating a framework for self-testing requires a lot of effort and resources. Moreover, self-testing tools for Android simplify the lives of mobile developers. We tried to combine the best resources and practices into one tool and add our own best practices and experience to it. We hope that with the help of Kaspresso, mobile application developers will create better and more reliable Android applications. We also believe that users and the entire industry will benefit from it,” says Victor Yablokov, Head of Mobile Products Development at Kaspersky.
More information about Kaspresso can be found in the dedicated blogpost.
You can download Kaspresso at the following link: https://github.com/KasperskyLab/Kaspresso.
