Mobly is a Python-based test framework that specializes in supporting test cases that require multiple devices, complex environments, or custom hardware setups. Examples:
- P2P data transfer between two devices
- Conference calls across three phones
- Wearable device interacting with a phone
- Internet-Of-Things devices interacting with each other
- Testing RF characteristics of devices with special equipment
Mobly can support many different types of devices and equipment, and it's easy to plug your own device or custom equipment/service into Mobly.
Mobly comes with a set of libs to control common devices like Android devices.
While developed by Googlers, Mobly is not an official Google product.
- adb (1.0.36+ recommended)
- python2.7 or python3.4+
- python-setuptools
If you use Python3, use pip3 and python3 (or python3.x) accordingly.
Mobly is compatible with both python 3.4+ and python 2.7.
You can install the released package from pip
$ pip install mobly
or download the source then run setup.py to use the bleeding edge:
$ git clone https://github.com/google/mobly.git
$ cd mobly
$ python setup.py install
You may need sudo for the above commands if your system has certain permission
restrictions.
To get started with some simple tests, see the Mobly tutorial.
The Mobly Snippet projects let users better control Android devices.
- Mobly Snippet Lib: used for triggering custom device-side code from host-side Mobly tests. You could use existing Android libraries like UI Automator and Espresso.
- Mobly Bundled Snippets: a set of Snippets to allow Mobly tests to control Android devices by exposing a simplified verison of the public Android API suitable for testing.