Testdroid

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]