What is the difference between android testing and exploratory testing?

Exploratory Testing begins with the exploring the application while learning. Testers have to learn a software functions first. Exploratory Testing helps to work on that. Before testing the final application or software test engineers have to learn it through Exploratory Testing. Exploratory testing works with workflow from beginning of the testing. It starts with primary objectives and collects proper information about them.

Android is the largest operating system in the world. At the same time, Android is fragmented. there are tons of devices and Android versions that your app must be compatible with

The Android framework includes an integrated testing framework that helps you test all aspects of your application and the SDK tools include tools for setting up and running test applications. Whether you are working in Eclipse with ADT or working from the command line, the SDK tools help you set up and run your tests within an emulator or the device you are targeting.

 

There are many tools that can be used for testing android applications. some are third party tools that can be used to test android applications.

Appium is a mobile test automation framework (and tool) for native, hybrid and mobile-web apps for iOS and Android. It uses JSONWireProtocol internally to interact with iOS and Android apps using Selenium’s WebDriver. It supports Android via uiautomator (API level 16 or higher) and Seledroid (API level lower than 16), iOS via UI Automation, and mobile web as Selenium driver for Android and iOS.

One of the biggest advantages of Appium is that you can write your Appium scripts on almost any programming language (e.g. Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Python or C#, etc), freedom from having to select tools, compatibility across the most important platforms (Android and iOS), freedom from having to install and configure devices to test and more. Also if you are familiar with Selenium, then it’s easy for you to use Appium in mobile app testing. They use the same WebDriver and DesiredCapabilities is used in the same way. Configuring an application to run on Appium has a lot of similarities to Selenium.

 

Android testing are based on JUnit, and you can run them either as local unit tests on the JVM or as instrumented tests on an Android device. Exploratory testing is a hands-on approach in which testers are involved in minimum planning and maximum test execution.