Testdroid

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 serves as 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]

References
  1. "Company". Original web site. Archived from the original on 30 January 2010. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  2. Marko Kaasila (4 June 2013). "Why investors should make it rain on developer tools". Guest Post. Venture Beat. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  3. "Bitbar Raises Seed Funding". FinSMEs. 12 March 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  4. Greg Anderson (9 April 2012). "Bitbar Announces Funding, Releases Services For Automatic Android App Testing". Arctic Startups. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  5. Megan Rose Dickey (17 June 2013). "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". Business Insider. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  6. Steve O'Hear (17 April 2013). "Bitbar Raises $3M From Qualcomm, Creathor, DFJ Esprit, And Finnvera For Its Testdroid Mobile App Testing Platform". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  7. Greg Anderson (17 April 2013). "Bitbar Raises €2.28 Million To Expand Mobile Device Testing". Arctic Startups. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  8. Louis Bedigian (18 April 2013). "This Startup's 'Stunning Customer List' Was Worth a $3 Million Investment". Benzinga. NASDAQ. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  9. Charles Arthur (22 August 2014). "Android is more fragmented than ever. Should developers or users worry?". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 August 2014.
  10. Intel (11 September 2014). "Free App Testing on Intel-Based Android Devices with Testdroid Cloud". Intel Corporation. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  11. Businesswire (11 September 2014). "Testdroid Enables Remote Manual and Automated Testing of Android Apps and Websites on Intel Atom-Based Devices for Free of Charge". Businesswire. Retrieved 12 September 2014. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  12. Jouko Kaasila; Denzil Ferreira; Vassilis Kostakos; Timo Ojala (4 December 2012). "Testdroid: automated remote UI testing on Android". ACM. ACM. Retrieved 7 August 2013.
  13. "Testdroid API". GitHub. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  14. "Helppi, Ville-Veikko". Appium on real devices. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  15. Simons, Tony. 2012. - http://androidspin.com/2012/03/13/testdroid-brings-simplified-android-app-testing-with-over-100-devices-ready-and-waiting/
  16. Tobias Nilsson (14 May 2013). "Sony devices added to Testdroid". Sony Developer World. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  17. Juhani Lehtimaki (1 June 2012). "Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps". Smashing Magazine. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  18. Van der Spek, Marco. http://www.testnewsonline.com/2012/06/28/testdroid-delivers-cloud-based-testing-platform/
  19. Helppi, Ville-Veikko. http://bitbar.com/goodbye-handwritten-test-cases/
  20. "Testdroid Recorder". Eclipse Marketplace. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  21. Gradle build system for Android - "Gradle-related Project: TestDroid Enterprise | Gradleware". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23. Retrieved 2013-07-23.
  22. "Testdroid". Google I/O 2013 Developer Sandbox. Retrieved 2 August 2013.
  23. Google I/O 2012 - http://thedroidguy.com/2012/06/testdroid-testing-platform-for-android-announced-at-google-io-2012/
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