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

Company

Bitbar was founded in 2009, with offices in

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, United Kingdom,

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, Poland, and

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, Finland. Marko Kaasila is a founder and serves as chief executive officer. Other founders included Sakari Rautiainen and Jouko Kaasila. Initial

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came from

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s and Finnvera Venture Capital in December 2012. By 2013, Bitbar was reported to have offices in

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and in Wrocław. An investment of US$3 million was announced in April 2013, from Creathor Ventures, DFJ Esprit, Finnvera Venture Capital, Finland's TEKES and

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. Investors were quoted as being attracted because customers already included Google,

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, and

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. In May 2014, a research by the company found out several aspects that fragment Android ecosystem for developers and users. In September 2014, company enabled free access to

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based Android devices for mobile application and game testers.

Products

Testdroid comprises three different products: Testdroid Cloud, Testdroid Recorder and Testdroid Enterprise. Testdroid provides an

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through

open source software Open-source software (OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. Open ...

available on

GitHub GitHub, Inc. () is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous ...

. Testdroid can use testing frameworks, such as Robotium,

Appium Appium is an open source automation tool for running scripts and testing native applications, mobile-web applications and hybrid applications on Android or iOS using a webdriver. History Appium was originally developed by Dan Cuellar in 2011 ...

and uiautomator for native and

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for web applications, targeted for mobile application and game developers. Testdroid Cloud contains real Android and

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powered devices, some of which are available for users. Testdroid Cloud lets users run tests simultaneously on cloud-based service. Testdroid Recorder is a tool for developers and testers for recording user-actions and producing

JUnit JUnit is a unit testing framework for the Java programming language. JUnit has been important in the development of test-driven development, and is one of a family of unit testing frameworks which is collectively known as xUnit that originated ...

based test cases on mobile application and games. Testdroid Recorder is available at the

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marketplace. Testdroid Enterprise is a server software for managing automated testing on multiple real Android and iOS powered devices, supporting

Gradle Gradle is a build automation tool for multi-language software development. It controls the development process in the tasks of compilation and packaging to testing, deployment, and publishing. Supported languages include Java (as well as Kotli ...

build system and Jenkins Continuous Integration. Testdroid appeared at

Google I/O Google I/O (or simply I/O) is an annual developer conference held by Google in Mountain View, California. "I/O" stands for Input/Output, as well as the slogan "Innovation in the Open". The event's format is similar to Google Developer Day. His ...

in 2012 and 2013.Google I/O 2012 - http://thedroidguy.com/2012/06/testdroid-testing-platform-for-android-announced-at-google-io-2012/

References

External links

* {{Official website, 1=https://bitbar.com/testing/ Software testing tools Software quality Mobile software programming tools Unit testing