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If your company wants to become mobile-friendly (or even go mobile-first), being able to test mobile applications effectively is critical. If you can’t do proper mobile testing, the rest of your mobile software development and deployment will fall short. However, testing effectively for mobile applications is sometimes easier said than done. This article identifies the challenges that [...]

Time flies! It was just one year ago that we acquired TestObject, a real device mobile app testing platform, to offer the industry’s most comprehensive cloud-based testing platform. With the addition of TestObject, only Sauce Labs offers automated and live (manual) testing coverage across desktops, emulators, simulators and real devices for mobile, web, hybrid and native apps. And a busy [...]

Today Sauce Labs announced support of the iPhone X for our cloud-based mobile testing platform Real Device Cloud (RDC). This allows our customers to test on the latest and greatest real devices without the long wait. We previously announced same day support for the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, along with full support for iOS 11 for real devices and simulators. We recommend that organizations test their [...]

Testing on mobile devices presents unique challenges. There’s a lot to keep up with—mobile OS updates, new devices and features, application frameworks for web, native, and hybrid apps, and a new breed of DevOps tools to ensure the mobile apps you ship are reliable and perform well. Therefore, you have a lot of decisions to make when planning a mobile testing strategy, and there is a [...]

If you want to test hybrid mobile apps—or any other kind of app, for that matter—Appium is a great choice. In this article, I provide an Appium example of testing a hybrid mobile app built with React. Appium’s Versatility: Mobile Testing and Beyond First, though, a few words on why Appium is a great choice for hybrid mobile app testing. Appium is an open source automation [...]

Need to test on the latest iOS version? Don't panic, Sauce has you covered! It’s that time of year again when Apple prepares its customers for the next generation of devices. The launch always includes a preview of awesome devices like the iPhone 8, iPhone  X and updates to its latest and greatest operating system, iOS 11. Every year, companies that develop apps for iOS devices seem to [...]

As the market matures in the mobile app space, iOS application developers have a multitude of iOS testing frameworks to leverage. Let’s go over some of the most popular frameworks (in alphabetical order), their strengths, features, test coverage options, and how they are licensed. Appium From appium.io: “Appium is an open-source tool for automating native, mobile web, and hybrid [...]

There’s no disputing that an automated mobile testing framework is an integral part of the software development cycle. You absolutely need automated testing to deliver quality applications in a timely fashion, particularly for rapidly changing mobile apps. To reap the greatest benefits from your software delivery, your automated tests should be carefully planned and scheduled in such a way [...]