In this age of rapid digital transformation, there is a need for quality at speed in app development and testing. It is important to automate a part of app testing to speed up the delivery and use the resources where there is a need for human intervention. Device fragmentation can be a challenge to achieve this goal, especially while doing functional testing and this is where pCloudy comes into the picture.

pCloudy is a cloud-based mobile app testing platform where you will get more than 5000 device browser combinations. It is loaded with features like local site testing, cross-browser testing, network simulation, etc. which makes mobile testing easier and faster. Let’s look at the key features in pCloudy.


Autonomous Testing with Certifaya Bot

App testing can be time taking and unbearable at times and the best way to utilize the resources is by automating particular tests. pCloudy is loaded with an autonomous testing bot which will do the testing for you. 

Certifaya, the AI-powered testing bot will generate a comprehensive test report for your app. It is the best way to do a sanity test and the bot will also run a crash test covering random events and different scenarios on multiple devices.

Parallel Testing with the “FollowMe” Feature

The FollowMe feature enables testers to perform testing in sync on multiple devices. A manual tester can perform testing and the action will be repeated on multiple devices. This will save time in multifold and reduce the amount of effort required to complete the job. This also assures the quality of apps by making visual verification easy.

pCloudy is integrated with most of the popular testing tools and frameworks like Appium, Espresso, Github, Jenkins, Opkey, Eclipse, Android Studio, Jira, etc. This means you can easily do continuous testing in a CI/CD pipeline. To perform testing you can use the pCloudy device while to write the test script you can use Eclipse integrated with pCloudy.

Quality in Manual Testing

In pCloudy, you get hundreds of devices to choose from which makes it easier for the testers to make sure that the app is bug-free. A tester can manually upload the APK file and install the app on the selected device. There is a feature called device planner where you can filter out the devices based on the region, OEM, and popularity. So for instance, if you want to select the top 10% of the iOS/Android devices by the popularity in the U.S. then you can do that and perform testing on those particular devices.

Testers can do different types of performance testing on the devices like network simulation where the tester can select a network operator and observe how the app behaves in the low network and no network environment. This will make sure that the app does not get stuck while in low network area and if there is no network in the area then the app will resume from the point it stopped.

Testers can also check if the app works fine there is low WiFi signal and the pages load properly. This is a pretty common scenario and users face a lot of these issues. Another important aspect is the battery power consumption.

There are other tests like memory usage where you need to check how much space the app is taking. Interrupt testing should be done to check how the app behaves when an interruption occurs like a call, message or an alarm. These tests can be done on pCloudy devices easily.

Conclusion

Enterprises are focusing on the quality of mobile apps to retain customer and provide a good user experience. Studies show that the majority of the users uninstall the app if they don’t like the UI in the first use. This is why developers are using an Agile process and implementing DevOps where continuous testing drives the delivery execution.

Next challenge is scale without which we cannot optimize the app testing. The app must be tested on different mobile devices with different specifications and this can be done by using pCloudy. Setting up a device lab will be a very costly business which will directly impact the companies overall budget.