TRY automatic test tool fo Symbian OS

News posted June 25th, 2003 by benk

As reported by My Symbian, Mobile Innovation Ltd. has annouced the availability of a several licensing package - including a free evaluation - of their TRY product.

TRY is a customisable (script based) software tool that enables Symbian OS applications to be tested automatically. It can be used on actual device hardware (Series60 or Series80 based - UIQ version to come), reference devices such as the Nokia 7650 or on a PC emulator. Users write scripts, using either the internal TRY text editor or any text editor that can save Unicode text files, that when executed automate content creation, keyboard manipulation, screen taps, logic flow controlling branching logic and on-error decision-making. TRY also validates the output using text and screenshot comparison.

Unfortunately, with licensing price starting from $35.000 for the "developper" edition, this package is not really affordable for individuals and small companies. And the free evaluation version has too much limitation to be really useful:
-  10 command limitation.
-  RunScript (to call subscripts) is disabled.
-  Create function is limited.
-  Loop command is disabled.

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> TRY automatic test tool fo Symbian OS

On December 15th, 2003 Martin (not verified) said:

Nokia has a program called Nokia Testing Suite that does the same thing, only it is free. It can be downloaded from the forum nokia site.

Details as follows:

===================================================================== RELEASE NOTE for Nokia Testing Suite 1.2 (01.07.2003) =====================================================================

Product Description: ==================== Nokia Testing Suite is a testing tool for the Nokia 9200 Communicator series, Nokia 3650 and Nokia 7650 third-party applications. With Nokia Testing Suite, the developers can emulate the user activities in the Symbian device with test scripts consisting of a sequence of key presses and special commands.

Nokia Testing Suite consists of two software applications; the workstation end software running in the PC and the Symbian end software running in the Symbian device. The tests scripts are being written in and managed by the PC end. Test script data and commands are transferred over the serial, infrared or Bluetooth connection to the Symbian end, which interprets them and performs the desired actions in the Symbian device.

Features: =========
-  Testing applications in the Nokia 9200 Communicator Series and Symbian emulator
-  Testing applications in the Nokia 7650 and Series 60 emulator
-  Testing applications in the Nokia 3650
-  Run automated commands on the Nokia 9200 Communicator Series, on Nokia 7650 and on Nokia 3650 - Easy-to-use script language - Advanced visual script editing - Sample scripts - XML-based script format - Multiple scripts in one project - Adjustable running speed - Testing with transactions with GSM networks (Calls, SMSs, etc.) - Memory allocation - Logging of executed script - Recording of key presses - Script creation by recording
-  Multilanguage support for 9200 Communicator Series

New Features: =============
-  Support for Nokia 3650 device
-  Support for Bluetooth connections in the Symbian device
-  Support for recording of scripts
-  Support for data logging functionality
-  Includes developer test set for the Nokia 3650, Nokia 7650 and Nokia 9200 Communicator series.

my own test automation

On March 15th, 2004 Anonymous said:

Hi there:

I want to know what APIs does Symbian SDK provide to develop an agent that can send input to other apps (like keystrokes) and how to capture the screenshot etc., FROM pc... LIKE how TestQuest or TRY does??

Suppose lets say I have a J2ME application that simply takes a string input and echoes it back. Say that it is running on 7650.

Now if I want to automate the application to test it-- how should I do it using the SymbianOS SDK for Nokia series 60?I want to send the input, capture the output and verify it in a controller type of application running on the PC ? I know that there are tools like TestQuest and other who do this-- but I want to write my own program which will act as a controller and do all this?

Any pointers in this regard are highly appreciated.

Thanks,