Launching Device and Application Under Test

Launching Devices

After you sign in to Mobile Object Spy, you can select the device from the available list of devices and use them to launch and add objects from the application under test.

Mobile Object Spy displays all the devices connected to all the agents. This connected list of devices includes real devices, emulators and simulators.

To launch mobile device:

1. Launch Mobile Object Spy on any browser using Mobile Object Spy URL.
   Mobile Object Spy URL is a combination of hostname/IP of the machine where Mobile Object Spy server is installed along with the port 4001.
   Sample URL may look like: http://192.168.25.77:4001 or http://localhost:4001.
2. Enter Qualitia Server URL, User id and Password.
   Qualitia Server URL is a combination of Hostname/IP of the server where you have installed Qualitia server along with the port 8887.
   Sample URL may look like: http://192.168.25.77:8887 or http://localhost:8887.
3. Ensure the real device is connected to Mobile Object Spy agent machine through USB to spy objects using real device.
4. Ensure you have created required emulator/simulator using Android Studio or XCode to spy objects using emulator/simulator. 
5. Click Boot and Connect to boot the device and launch it to spy the objects.
   This option is available for emulators/simulators only.
6. Click Connect to launch the connected real device or already started emulator/simulator.

Launching/Installing Application Under Test

After you launch mobile object spy and connect to the desired real device or emulator/simulator, you can start adding objects by from the application under test.

You must first launch or install the application under test on the mobile device from which you want to add new objects. Qualitia gives you a provision to install the application under test from Mobile Object Spy itself.

In order to launch application under test on the desired device, you must first create desired emulator/simulator on the Mobile Object Spy agent. For more information about creating and managing emulators, refer to Prerequisites, Privileges and Configurations section.

To launch the application under test:

1. On Mobile Object Spy, connect to the desired device.
2. You can an launch application in 3 different ways:
   1. To launch the already installed application, select the application under test using from the drop-down list.
   2. To freshly install the application, select the .app, .ipa or .apk file from the local directory and click Install.
   3. To add objects from the web application, enter Web URL.
3. Click Launch to launch the application.
   Once you have launched any application using this method, you can interact with other applications from the device screen itself.
   Also, if you are launching the application which was already running on the device, the application is launched at its current stage. Qualitia does not reset the application when launching it.