Automatic assessment of assignments for Android application programming courses

This paper presents a solution of creating a testing environment for Android applications in programming courses. Appropriate testing methods and suggestions for the testing environment are consulted by the authors with a mobile application development company. The paper also analyzes basic student mistakes, looks for solutions to their detection by automated testing, and suggests appropriate test tools on their basis. At the same time, the paper contains an assessment and testing experience for particular tools. In addition, it compares the performance of emulator and real device tests, and the proposed tools are partially tested in particular course.