This tutorial shows how to write and execute simple Mobly test cases. We are using Android devices here since they are pretty accessible. Mobly supports various devices and you can also use your own custom hardware/equipment.
adb devices.* You can get SL4A from the Android repo, under project <aosp>/external/sl4a
It can be built like a regular system app with mm commands. It needs to be signed with the build you use on your Android devices.
Let‘s start with the simple example of posting “Hello World” on the Android device’s screen. Create the following files: sample_config.yml
TestBeds: # A test bed where adb will find Android devices. - Name: SampleTestBed, Controllers: AndroidDevice: '*'
hello_world_test.py
from mobly import base_test from mobly import test_runner from mobly.controllers import android_device class HelloWorldTest(base_test.BaseTestClass): def setup_class(self): # Registering android_device controller module declares the test's # dependency on Android device hardware. By default, we expect at least one # object is created from this. self.ads = self.register_controller(android_device) self.dut = self.ads[0] self.dut.load_sl4a() # starts sl4a. def test_hello(self): self.dut.sl4a.makeToast('Hello World!') if __name__ == '__main__': test_runner.main()
To execute: $ python hello_world_test.py -c sample_config.yml Expect A “Hello World!” toast notification appears on your device‘s screen. Within SampleTestBed’s Controllers section, we used AndroidDevice: '*' to tell the test runner to automatically find all connected Android devices. You can also specify particular devices by serial number and attach extra attributes to the object:
AndroidDevice: - serial: xyz, phone_number: 123456, - serial: abc, label: golden_device
We have multiple tests written in a test script, and we only want to execute a subset of them. hello_world_test.py
from mobly import base_test from mobly import test_runner from mobly.controllers import android_device class HelloWorldTest(base_test.BaseTestClass): def setup_class(self): self.ads = self.register_controller(android_device) self.dut = self.ads[0] self.dut.load_sl4a() def test_hello(self): self.dut.sl4a.makeToast('Hello World!') def test_bye(self): self.dut.sl4a.makeToast('Goodbye!') if __name__ == '__main__': test_runner.main()
To execute: $ python hello_world_test.py -c sample_config.yml --test_case test_bye Expect A “Goodbye!” toast notification appears on your device‘s screen. You can dictate what test cases to execute within a test script and their execution order, shown below: $ python hello_world_test.py -c sample_config.yml --test_case test_bye test_hello test_bye Expect Toast notifications appear on your device’s screen in the following order: “Goodbye!”, “Hello World!”, “Goodbye!”.
You could specify user parameters to be passed into your test class in the config file. In the following config, we added a parameter favorite_food to be used in the test case. sample_config.yml
TestBeds: - Name: SampleTestBed, Controllers: AndroidDevice: '*' TestParams: favorite_food: Green eggs and ham.
In the test script, you could access the user parameter:
def test_favorite_food(self): food = self.user_params.get('favorite_food') if food: self.dut.sl4a.makeToast("I'd like to eat %s." % food) else: self.dut.sl4a.makeToast("I'm not hungry.")
Multiple test beds can be configured in one configuration file. sample_config.yaml
# DefaultParams is optional here. It uses yaml's anchor feature to easily share # a set of parameters between multiple test bed configs DefaultParams: &DefaultParams favorite_food: green eggs and ham. TestBeds: - Name: XyzTestBed, Controllers: AndroidDevice: - serial: xyz, phone_number: 123456 TestParams: <<: *DefaultParams - Name: AbcTestBed, Controllers: AndroidDevice: - serial: abc, label: golden_device TestParams: <<: *DefaultParams
You can choose which one to execute on with the command line argument --test_bed: $ python hello_world_test.py -c sample_config.yml --test_bed AbcTestBed Expect A “Hello World!” and a “Goodbye!” toast notification appear on your device's screen.
In this example, we use one Android device to discover another Android device via bluetooth. This test demonstrates several essential elements in test writing, like logging and asserts. sample_config.yml
TestBeds: - Name: TwoDeviceTestBed, Controllers: AndroidDevice: - serial: xyz, label: dut - serial: abc, label: discoverer TestParams: bluetooth_name: MagicBluetooth, bluetooth_timeout: 5
sample_test.py
from mobly import base_test from mobly import test_runner from mobly.controllerse import android_device class HelloWorldTest(base_test.BaseTestClass): def setup_class(self): # Registering android_device controller module, and declaring that the test # requires at least two Android devices. self.ads = self.register_controller(android_device, min_number=2) self.dut = android_device.get_device(self.ads, label='dut') self.dut.load_sl4a() self.discoverer = android_device.get_device(self.ads, label='discoverer') self.discoverer.load_sl4a() self.dut.ed.clear_all_events() self.discoverer.ed.clear_all_events() def setup_test(self): # Make sure bluetooth is on self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothToggleState(True) self.discoverer.sl4a.bluetoothToggleState(True) self.dut.ed.pop_event(event_name='BluetoothStateChangedOn', timeout=10) self.discoverer.ed.pop_event(event_name='BluetoothStateChangedOn', timeout=10) if (not self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothCheckState() or not self.discoverer.sl4a.bluetoothCheckState()): asserts.abort_class('Could not turn on Bluetooth on both devices.') # Set the name of device #1 and verify the name properly registered. self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothSetLocalName(self.bluetooth_name) asserts.assert_equal(self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothGetLocalName(), self.bluetooth_name, 'Failed to set bluetooth name to %s on %s' % (self.bluetooth_name, self.dut.serial)) def test_bluetooth_discovery(self): # Make dut discoverable. self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothMakeDiscoverable() scan_mode = self.dut.sl4a.bluetoothGetScanMode() asserts.assert_equal( scan_mode, 3, # 3 signifies CONNECTABLE and DISCOVERABLE 'Android device %s failed to make blueooth discoverable.' % self.dut.serial) # Start the discovery process on #discoverer. self.discoverer.ed.clear_all_events() self.discoverer.sl4a.bluetoothStartDiscovery() self.discoverer.ed.pop_event( event_name='BluetoothDiscoveryFinished', timeout=self.bluetooth_timeout) # The following log entry demonstrates AndroidDevice log object, which # prefixes log entries with "[AndroidDevice|<serial>] " self.discoverer.log.info('Discovering other bluetooth devices.') # Get a list of discovered devices discovered_devices = self.discoverer.sl4a.bluetoothGetDiscoveredDevices() self.discoverer.log.info('Found devices: %s', discovered_devices) matching_devices = [d for d in discovered_devices if d.get('name') == self.bluetooth_name] if not matching_devices: asserts.fail('Android device %s did not discover %s.' % (self.discoverer.serial, self.dut.serial)) self.discoverer.log.info('Discovered at least 1 device named ' '%s: %s', self.bluetooth_name, matching_devices) if __name__ == '__main__': test_runner.main()
One will notice that this is not the most robust test (another nearby device could be using the same name), but in the interest of simplicity, we've limited the number of RPCs sent to each Android device to just two:
self.dut, we asked it to make itself discoverable and checked that it did it.self.discoverer, we asked it to start scanning for nearby bluetooth devices, and then we pulled the list of devices seen. There's potentially a lot more we could do to write a thorough test (e.g., check the hardware address, see whether we can pair devices, transfer files, etc.). You‘ll notice above that we’ve used self.{device_alias}.ed.pop_event(). The ed attribute of an Android device object is an EventDispatcher, which provides APIs to interact with async events. For example, pop_event is a function which will block until either a specified event is seen or the call times out, and by using it we avoid the use of busy loops that constantly check the device state. For more, see the APIs in mobly.controllers.android_device_lib.event_dispatcher.