We built a mobile test platform
What happens when you work at Leroy Merlin's (the DIY store) tech team and you need a farm of mobile devices for testing? Well, you build one yourself! 😄
Some may say it's overkill to build an in-house solution when there are so many cloud services these days but hey, every project and company has its own needs. So kudos for sharing, Marc Lavieville!
And here are the instructions if you want to do the same.
Test Strategy in Mobile and Big Screen Testing
Mariia Hutsuk and Sivamoorthy Bose provide a high-level overview of various device screens — such as mobile, TVs and streaming boxes — and give some good advice on how to approach testing for each of them.
Mobile Web Accessibility Testing Using Appium
Mark Steadman prepared a nice example of setting up and running automated tests on mobile apps using Appium and Axe that can spot accessibility issues.
How testers coded a mobile farm for iOS
While testing in the cloud is getting more and more popular, Eugene Ponomarenko shows how they built an in-house mobile farm for iOS. Better yet, it's open-source!
Speaking of mobile testing, Joe Colantonio put together The Ultimate Mobile Testing Guide: 11 Tips to Test Your App Effectively.
How to Automate Mobile Application Testing
Niranjani Manoharan gives an introduction to mobile test automation by comparing Android and iOS native test frameworks with Appium and sharing handy code examples.
Additionally, Mohammad Faisal Khatri wrote a Practical Guide to Mobile Testing.
Three Important Mobile Testing Techniques To Know
Daniel Knott shares important pieces of advice on what to take into consideration when testing mobile apps. He also provides a helpful cheatsheet.
In a similar fashion, Eduardo Fischer dos Santos tells us about A Must For Mobile Testing: Device Farms.
How to Get Started with Mobile App Testing
I really liked this complete guide to mobile testing, covering everything from the very basics to details of iOS and Android platforms. Thanks, Vishal Gaikar!
Easily Create Mobile Testing Framework with Java & Appium
Here's a detailed guide to setting up a mobile test automation framework in Java using Appium and TestProject. By Andreea Draniceanu.
Adopting device-farm for mobile testing
I enjoyed this insightful story of setting up a cloud-based mobile device farm in five phases that Kumar Ashok introduced in the company he works for.
Testing Native and Hybrid Mobile Apps — What’s the Difference?
In this insightful top-down overview, Andrew Tyshchenko explains in-depth the difference between native and hybrid mobile apps and what testing approach can be applied to each.
