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

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Company

Bitbar was founded in 2009, with offices in Cambridge, United Kingdom, Wrocław, Poland, and Oulu, Finland. [1] Marko Kaasila is a founder and 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]

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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.
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  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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