Automatic Flash Tool for Mobile Devices

Abstract

Operational Systems (OS) can be roughly seen as a bunch of code that is usually integrated to become a system image, vendors must be careful with the integration process to ensure quality control. To achieve that, they also need to provide an efficient management system, one of the most popular tools available on the market is the JIRA. Besides management, the size of an OS must be taken into consideration, in particular, OS images from mobile devices are significantly large to compile from a local machine, one way to overcome this matter would be investing in remote build systems such as QuickBuild(QB) which provides a fast and distributed build platform. With the built final OS image is necessary to perform tests on the target device. This paper focuses on Android Mobile Devices OS images and proposes an automated flash tool that will acquire a task, search for related task OS image, download the target OS image and finally flash it to the mobile device. This tool will handle the mentioned management tool and also the QuickBuild remote build system, to automate several manual tasks done by a user. We successfully made this tool work in the proposed scenario which reduced time spent on manual tasks and also contributes to team task's time effectiveness.