Question about mobile app testing in test lab with bluetooth peripherals

I have a question about testing for a mobile app which works with bluetooth peripherals.

We have a mobile application interfacing with embedded devices. We have a testing lab which will test the embedded devices. There we will do certain testing to ensure our embedded devices works in different RF climates and different workloads on the devices etc.

We also want to integrate the app with these embedded tests to test the whole system as will be used by the end customer. For example doing certain user flows like testing device registration which will include talking to peripheral on bluetooth together with our cloud.

Test solution for app need to be brand agnostic over iOS and Android.

However there are very few resources and references on these topics and therefore I want to ask some questions here:


1. What framework to use to do these tests? We are thinking of a background task in the app which will execute tests when receiving certain events, such as connecting via BLE and interfacing with the embedded devices which on its side will respond accordingly and we will log it on the test server computer.

2. We want a good way to test the whole system automatically on actual devices and not relying solely on unit and integration tests which typically runs in isolation without real life external factors.