Testdroid

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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 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 2010-01-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20100130010937/http://bitbar.com/content/3/company. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  2. ↑ Marko Kaasila (2013-06-04). "Why investors should make it rain on developer tools". Guest Post. Venture Beat. https://venturebeat.com/2013/06/04/why-investors-should-make-it-rain-on-developer-tools/. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  3. ↑ "Bitbar Raises Seed Funding". FinSMEs. 2012-03-12. http://www.finsmes.com/2012/03/bitbar-raises-seed-funding.html. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  4. ↑ Greg Anderson (2012-04-09). "Bitbar Announces Funding, Releases Services For Automatic Android App Testing". Arctic Startups. http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/03/09/bitbar-testdroid-funding. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  5. ↑ Megan Rose Dickey (2013-06-17). "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. https://www.businessinsider.com/hottest-finnish-startups-2013-6#testdroid-by-bitbar-makes-testing-mobile-applications-on-various-devices-a-breeze-5. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  6. ↑ Steve O'Hear (2013-04-17). "Bitbar Raises $3M From Qualcomm, Creathor, DFJ Esprit, And Finnvera For Its Testdroid Mobile App Testing Platform". Tech Crunch. https://techcrunch.com/2013/04/17/bitbar/. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  7. ↑ Greg Anderson (17 April 2013). "Bitbar Raises €2.28 Million To Expand Mobile Device Testing". Arctic Startups. http://www.arcticstartup.com/2013/04/17/bitbar-2-2-million. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  8. ↑ Louis Bedigian (2013-04-18). "This Startup's 'Stunning Customer List' Was Worth a $3 Million Investment". Benzinga (NASDAQ). http://www.nasdaq.com/article/this-startups-stunning-customer-list-was-worth-a-3-million-investment-cm238385. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  9. ↑ Charles Arthur (2014-08-22). "Android is more fragmented than ever. Should developers or users worry?". The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/aug/22/android-fragmented-developers-opensignal. Retrieved 2014-08-23. 
  10. ↑ "Free App Testing on Intel-Based Android Devices with Testdroid Cloud". Intel Corporation. 11 September 2014. https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2014/09/10/free-app-testing-on-intel-based-android-devices-with-testdroid-cloud. Retrieved 12 September 2014. 
  11. ↑ "Testdroid Enables Remote Manual and Automated Testing of Android Apps and Websites on Intel Atom-Based Devices for Free of Charge". Businesswire. 11 September 2014. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/testdroid-enables-remote-manual-automated-160000953.html. Retrieved 2014-09-12. 
  12. ↑ Jouko Kaasila; Denzil Ferreira; Vassilis Kostakos; Timo Ojala (2012-12-04). "Testdroid: automated remote UI testing on Android". ACM. http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2406402. Retrieved 2013-08-07. 
  13. ↑ "Testdroid API". GitHub. https://github.com/bitbar/testdroid-API. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  14. ↑ "Helppi, Ville-Veikko". Appium on real devices. http://bitbar.com/appium-on-real-devices-appium-faq/. Retrieved 2014-04-24. 
  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 (2013-05-14). "Sony devices added to Testdroid". Sony Developer World. http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/05/14/sony-devices-added-to-testdroid/. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  17. ↑ Juhani Lehtimaki (2012-06-01). "Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps". Smashing Magazine. http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/06/01/getting-to-know-android/. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  18. ↑ Van der Spek, Marco. Testdroid delivers cloud-based testing platform
  19. ↑ Helppi, Ville-Veikko. Goodbye Handwritten Test Cases!
  20. ↑ "Testdroid Recorder". Eclipse Marketplace. http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/testdroid-recorder. Retrieved 2013-08-02. 
  21. ↑ Gradle build system for Android. "Gradle-related Project: TestDroid Enterprise | Gradleware". Archived from the original on 2013-07-23. https://archive.today/20130723182852/http://www.gradleware.com/news/projects/testdroid-enterprise. Retrieved 2013-07-23. 
  22. ↑ "Testdroid". https://developers.google.com/events/io/sessions/467242296. 
  23. ↑ "Testdroid Testing Platform for Android Announced at Google I/O 2012". The Droid Guy. ET. Archived from the original on 31 October 2012. Retrieved 4 November 2025.



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