  The proliferation of mobile apps and reduced time in mobile app releases
mandates the need for faster and efficient testing of mobile apps, their GUI
and functional capabilities. Though, there are wide variety of open source
tools and frameworks that are developed to provide automated test
infrastructure for testing mobile apps. Each of these automation tools supports
different scripting languages for automating the app testing. These frameworks
fundamentally lacks the ability to directly capture the intent of the users who
intend to effectively test the mobile app and its cross-app functional
capabilities and performance without worrying about the low-level scripting
language associated with each tool. Hence, to address this limitation, we
propose a high-level intent-based automation specification language and APIs
that could effectively address following aspects: (i)capture the test
automation steps to be captured as high-level intents using intuitive
automation specification language, and (ii) provides framework support to
effectively capture the users behavior patterns effectively for testing the
apps. We develop, AppIntent a high level automation specification
language-based framework that directly captures the test automation intents
with in and across multiple apps using high-level and intuitive language
without worrying about how to actually develop scripts for automation.
