A brand-spankin’ new industry survey conducted by Kobiton on mobile app testing trends has proven two things: (1) Mobile app testing is about to get wicked and (2) QA teams deserve superhero capes! The report will be ready in just a week or two. So whether...
In our last post, we introduced the topic of manual testing by describing how a plane needs a pilot to perform some manual tasks—especially during high-risk parts of a flight. Using the same analogy, it’s critical that some functionality on a large plane is automated...
How would you feel if an airline told you that an automated system would replace the pilot during your entire plane ride home? Would you hop on the plane? Probably not. Similarly, any mobile app tester knows that some manual testing must take place before...
I. Introduction Parallel testing is one of the main features of the Kobiton Cloud service, giving users the ability to run concurrent tests. Instead of waiting for each test to execute individually, users can run multiple tests in parallel across various browser, device, and OS combinations. In...
Introduction Appium is perhaps the most popular and widely-used engine for mobile test automation. As Kobiton allows managing real mobile devices, users can easily setup and perform automation tests using Appium. This tutorial provides step-by-step guidelines on how to create and execute automated test scripts using...
With over 4,000 mobile device types, over 100 mobile operating system versions, and hundreds of carriers around the world, you would have to test your mobile app with hundreds of millions of device configurations to account for every scenario. Obviously, that’s impossible. And yet, you...
I am excited to share the news about some important changes we have made to Kobiton. Starting today, Kobiton is offering developers and businesses easier, more flexible ways to get the mobile app testing minutes and features they need at affordable prices. For independent developers,...
A wide variety of devices at different price points is great for consumers. But this fragmentation poses a major challenge for all mobile developers trying to make sure their apps work well across all these devices. It is an especially thorny problem for an independent...