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| Test Object |
Smartphone market is on boom. Apps are the backbone of every operating system. Everyday more and more apps are coming out in different platforms. Every developer who comes out with an app wants to be successful, wants to make money. If you are a developer you will understand the amount of efforts put behind the development of every app. Now a days user satisfaction has a great role in the success of any product. This has made Mobile testing an absolute necessity. Any developer who wants their app to be successful should make sure that they provide best user experience available enough to get them positive reviews in the app store.
Achieving the best user experience can only happen through rigorous testing of the developed app. Mobile application testing is for testing its functionality, usability and consistency. It can either be manual or automated kind of testing. A study says 39% of current mobile users are unhappy about their mobile app performance. Since we rely on our smartphones highly, improving app performance is important. Mobile app testing is the best way to do that. Mobile app testing is different and complex than desktop and web application testing. The difference in the testing methods brings out new challenges. The increased fragmentation of mobile devices is a major problem for testers. According to the android fragmentation report of 2014 there were 18,796 distinct android devices till August 2014. This poses a great problem for the testers as each of these devices which are different in size and hardware can’t be made available for testing. The availability of different Operational support system poses a great problem, even though there are only 2 major Operating Systems but the numerous versions of these operating systems makes the testing even harder. Faster app release cycles and the use of different Mobile Network Operators by the users also affects the testing. This is where Test Object comes in. It makes app testing fast, affordable and most importantly effective.
Test Object doesn’t cover platforms like desktop applications or web. Test Object offers mobile automated and manual testing , supporting Android and iOS. After extensive research and hours of testing we found out that best results in testing are achieved when manual and automated mobile testing is combined. Test Object platform which is supported by top open source testing frameworks such as Appium, Espresso and Robotium enables to test automation scripts written in any language for both iOS and Android applications. This gives developers the opportunity to perform any type of tests in one place. Running automated and manual testing gives optimal results in our opinion. We call this approach of testing as integrated testing. Pairing this with quick feature of quality check enables in comprehensive mobile quality assurance. This approach enables the developer to cut costs and helps in detecting the issues at a faster pace. In the usual development cycle the time required for testing will be as same as the complete time for the other steps together, but the Integrated testing by Test Object enables the developers to reduce the testing time drastically and to release their app earlier than expected. Reduction in development time saves the developers a lot of money.
As smartphone market is becoming bigger and bigger, new devices are being announced almost every day. This makes it hard for a developer to keep track of the phones that are coming out every month, and actually buying them for testing purposes. We can solve this problem by making hundreds of Android and iOS devices available through the cloud. We provide access to real devices only without using any emulators or simulators. Since the devices are available through the cloud all users can perform their tests remotely from any location at any time. The Test Object cloud saves the developer a lot of money by eliminating the need of maintaining, charging and replacing the devices that are used in testing. Currently, Test Objects cloud gives the user access to over 200 individual device model and in few months total number of instances will reach 600.
While using the Test Object loud you can trigger the sensors of the phone to see how your app reacts when GPS location is changed. You can also mess with the device settings to see how it affects your app. Our testing includes battery tests and responsiveness tests. You can also share the test results via a link or it can be downloaded as a pdf. Errors are detected automatically during the test and screen shots and report of bugs are provided with each identified bug. You will get a report with detailed execution results for Robotium and Espresso tests. The report would include all logs and screenshots. Connecting your app to our restful API provide you with Ant and Gradle plugins to integrate with your build process. Build tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo and Teamcity are available. You can also use your existing Robotium, espresso or Appium tests and run them in parallel on the device cloud.
Our goal is to make Mobile Testing easy for everyone. Currently, automated testing requires a test automation engineer and we currently are working on automating the process. Test automation without coding will allow more companies to go for agile development processes and release better products in shorter time. Our pricing starts at $99 dollar per month.
As a company that was always mobile first. We have developed our solutions solely for mobile platforms. Test Object does not cover other platforms like desktop applications or web. We are a mobile only company and we constantly focus on testing processes perfection just for this environment.
We strive to make testing as it should be: affordable, fast, and most importantly effective.
* As a company for us which is always mobile-first, we’ve developed solutions that are purely for mobile scenario. We are a mobile-only company and we consistently focus on perfecting our testing processes just for this particular environment.
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