Testdroid is a set of mobile software development and testing products by Bitbar Technologies Limited.
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]
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]
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