Launch tests on emulator

You can use an android emulator to help you develop your GDSL tests. It is useful if you do not have a real device or if you want to test on a device with the same resolution as a device on the Test Bench. Do not use emulator if you want measures, the metrics (energy, data …) are not available.

1 - Change the job.yml file

To be able to run an application with the applicationStart gdsl function, there are 2 choices :

• Install the app manually through the Play Store application

• In the job.yml file, add an url field with the name of the application package. Example :

In the second case, it installs the app at the beginning of the test and uninstalls it at the end.

2 - Change the config.yml file

The target.serial field corresponds to the emulator id. You can find it by running “adb devices”.

3 - Run the testrunner

• Launch an android emulator

  • Option 1: open the Device Manager window of Android Studio and click on the triangle

  • Option 2: start an emulator from the command line (part 2.5)

• If you run the testrunner for the first time, you have to run it once without the --no-update option:

  • On Linux and macOS: ./testrunner -jobFile job.yml -config config.yml

  • On Windows: testrunner -jobFile job.yml -config config.yml

• Download the android-service executable in 32 bits and its version file : https://dl.greenspector.com/emulator/android-service-files.tar.gz

• Go to your greenspector cache:

  • On Linux and macOS: $HOME/.greenspector

  • On Windows: C:\Users\[username]\.greenspector

• Replace the android-service and android-service.version files with the downloaded files. You will have to decompress the tar.gz file.

• You can now run the testrunner with the --no-update option:

  • On Linux and macOS: ./testrunner -jobFile job.yml -config config.yml --no-update

  • On Windows: testrunner -jobFile job.yml -config config.yml --no-update