With an instant drift towards remote working culture, many organizations face challenges in utilizing their existing automation infrastructure for cross-platform testing. The major concern is with the mobile apps that run on a variety of devices, hardware, OS versions, and screen sizes.
Before the remote working era, QA members used to either share devices for manual testing or run the automation suite on multiple devices using a hub. However, these practices are difficult to implement when working remotely as engineers are working from different locations and everyone needs specific devices to complete a comprehensive testing strategy.
Gartner predicts the following worldwide trends based on cloud end-user spending:
From the above trend, we can see that the DAAS (desktop as a service) and IAAS (infrastructure as a service) will grow tremendously by 2022 as most of organizations will shift their infrastructures to cloud. This is primarily development, DevOps, and testing. Below are a few benefits that teams can expect when shifting towards a cloud-based development and QA strategy:
Developers and testers use BrowserStack to perform cross-browser, as well as cross-platform testing. It can be integrated with multiple automation tools and provides features such as parallel testing, CI/CD integration, and test reporting. While testing mobile apps, we can test geolocation, push notifications, network simulation, and gestures-based testing.
This testing infrastructure created by Amazon is used to test web and mobile applications. On this platform, teams can run the automation scripts created using different automation tools. AWS provides features like parallel testing, CI/CD integrations, and test reporting. AWS device farm provides a smart feature to test android mobile apps which automatically crawls every page of an app, takes a screenshot, analyzes each view, and shares the results.
Firebase test lab is majorly centered on testing Android and iOS apps. It provides advanced features like parallel testing and CI/CD integrations. Firebase test lab has an interesting feature called Robo test, an automatic crawler that verifies the structure of the app's user interface. The tool captures logs, screenshots and prepares videos to debug the issues.
Developed by Microsoft, the Xamarin test cloud is a testing infrastructure that concentrates on native and hybrid mobile apps testing. You can use it with different mobile automation tools. It provides features like screenshots, logging, CI/CD integration, and parallel execution. Xamarin Test Cloud also supports Azure active directory integration for easy organization.
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