Testdroid Explained

Testdroid is a set of mobile software development and testing products by Bitbar Technologies Limited.

Company

Bitbar was founded in 2009, with offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wrocław, Poland, and Oulu, Finland.[1] Marko Kaasila is a founder and chief executive officer.[2] Other founders included Sakari Rautiainen and Jouko Kaasila. Initial seed funding came from angel investors and Finnvera Venture Capital in December 2012.[3] [4] By 2013, Bitbar was reported to have offices in San Francisco, Helsinki and in Wrocław.[5] An investment of US$3 million was announced in April 2013, from Creathor Ventures, DFJ Esprit, Finnvera Venture Capital, Finland's TEKES and Qualcomm.[6] [7] Investors were quoted as being attracted because customers already included Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Flipboard, Pinterest, and eBay.[8]

In May 2014, a research by the company found out several aspects that fragment Android ecosystem for developers and users.[9]

In September 2014, company enabled free access to Intel Atom based Android devices for mobile application and game testers.[10] [11]

Products

Testdroid[12] comprises three different products: Testdroid Cloud, Testdroid Recorder and Testdroid Enterprise.Testdroid provides an application programming interface through open source software available on GitHub.[13] Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium, Appium[14] and uiautomator for native and Selenium for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers.

Testdroid Cloud contains real Android[15] and iOS powered devices, some of which are available for users.[16] [17] Testdroid Cloud lets users run tests simultaneously on cloud-based service.[18]

Testdroid Recorder is a tool for developers and testers for recording user-actions and producing JUnit based test cases on mobile application and games.[19] Testdroid Recorder is available at the Eclipse marketplace.[20]

Testdroid Enterprise is a server software for managing automated testing on multiple real Android and iOS powered devices, supporting Gradle[21] build system and Jenkins Continuous Integration.

Testdroid appeared at Google I/O in 2012 and 2013.[22] [23]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Company . Original web site . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100130010937/http://bitbar.com/content/3/company . 2010-01-30 . 2013-08-02.
  2. Web site: Why investors should make it rain on developer tools. Marko Kaasila. 2013-06-04. Guest Post. Venture Beat. 2013-08-02.
  3. Web site: Bitbar Raises Seed Funding . FinSMEs . 2012-03-12 . 2013-08-02.
  4. News: Bitbar Announces Funding, Releases Services For Automatic Android App Testing . Arctic Startups . Greg Anderson . 2012-04-09 . 2013-08-02.
  5. News: Business Insider . 2013-06-17 . Megan Rose Dickey . These 12 Startups Prove Angry Birds Isn't The Only Hot Tech Product To Come Out of Finland: Testdroid by Bitbar makes testing mobile applications on various devices a breeze . 2013-08-02.
  6. News: Bitbar Raises $3M From Qualcomm, Creathor, DFJ Esprit, And Finnvera For Its Testdroid Mobile App Testing Platform . Tech Crunch . Steve O'Hear . 2013-04-17 . 2013-08-02.
  7. News: Bitbar Raises €2.28 Million To Expand Mobile Device Testing . Arctic Startups . Greg Anderson . 17 April 2013 . 2013-08-02 . 2013-06-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130606191948/http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/04/17/bitbar-2-2-million . dead.
  8. News: This Startup's 'Stunning Customer List' Was Worth a $3 Million Investment . Benzinga . NASDAQ . Louis Bedigian . 2013-04-18 . 2013-08-02.
  9. News: Android is more fragmented than ever. Should developers or users worry? . The Guardian . Charles Arthur . 2014-08-22 . 2014-08-23.
  10. News: 11 September 2014 . Free App Testing on Intel-Based Android Devices with Testdroid Cloud . 12 September 2014 . Intel Corporation.
  11. News: 11 September 2014 . Testdroid Enables Remote Manual and Automated Testing of Android Apps and Websites on Intel Atom-Based Devices for Free of Charge . 2014-09-12 . Businesswire.
  12. News: Jouko Kaasila . Denzil Ferreira . Vassilis Kostakos . Timo Ojala . 2012-12-04 . Testdroid: automated remote UI testing on Android . 2013-08-07 . ACM.
  13. Web site: Testdroid API . GitHub . 2013-08-02.
  14. Web site: Helppi, Ville-Veikko . Appium on real devices . 2014-04-24.
  15. Simons, Tony. 2012. http://androidspin.com/2012/03/13/testdroid-brings-simplified-android-app-testing-with-over-100-devices-ready-and-waiting/
  16. Web site: Sony Developer World . Tobias Nilsson . 2013-05-14 . Sony devices added to Testdroid . 2013-08-02 . 2013-07-23 . https://archive.today/20130723185154/http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/05/14/sony-devices-added-to-testdroid/ . dead.
  17. News: Juhani Lehtimaki . Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps . 2012-06-01 . Smashing Magazine . 2013-08-02.
  18. Van der Spek, Marco. Testdroid delivers cloud-based testing platform
  19. Helppi, Ville-Veikko. Goodbye Handwritten Test Cases!
  20. Web site: Testdroid Recorder . Eclipse Marketplace . 2013-08-02 . 2016-08-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160815024911/http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/testdroid-recorder . dead.
  21. Gradle build system for Android. Web site: Gradle-related Project: TestDroid Enterprise | Gradleware . dead . https://archive.today/20130723182852/http://www.gradleware.com/news/projects/testdroid-enterprise . 2013-07-23 . 2013-07-23.
  22. Web site: Testdroid . https://archive.today/20130930102259/https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/467242296 . 2013-09-30 . Google I/O 2013 Developer Sandbox.
  23. https://web.archive.org/web/20121031150701/http://thedroidguy.com/2012/06/testdroid-testing-platform-for-android-announced-at-google-io-2012/ "Testdroid Testing Platform for Android Announced at Google I/O 2012"

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