Hello! Thanks for spending your saturday to learn something new. Is there is somebody from HK?
My name is name is Oleksandr Pastukhov, I’m software engineer for the last 11 years for the commercial projects and m.b. 20 years in total.
Started programming in my early childhood. I thought, that games that time were sucks and tried to do better.
And because of that my passion I’m here right now.
Today we will talk about testing android in the Clouds. And the very first question.
Why should you use cloud?
You could already have your cozy tests in Android Studio, testing it on your phone, so why do you need something more?
That’s why. You have no choice. I will explain why
So how mobile development looked like 4 years ago?
Thats time I was working on a small startup for a mobile personal security. In case of emergency you have big red button, press it and you relatives or 911 receiving your location and video.
Server side was covered by unit and integration tests, but mobile was always painfull,
So we had manual QA to handle this.
But even that didn’t always help.
We had small mobile lab
For startup with a limited money - keeping updated lab it’s a challenge.
You have lots of devices, if you will buy it - it will costs more than 3000$
And users quite often had some phones , that we don’t haveAnd we were struggling trying to understand what’s error where there.
Mobile apps have more bugs, than desktop apps.
And users are less loyal. It’s so easy to find different application on a mobile
Budget increasing drastically for the last years
So where is that money?
One of solutions that you could use in case if you only one developer.
But closest lab for now in HK
And even if it will be in the different part of the Shenzhen, it will be time-expensive.
So now we have better solutions
Services sorted by price and we will start from free.
Continuous integration.Bug tracking connected.