Show HN: AppThwack, automated Android app testing on real devices

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by tdpeterson • 14 years ago

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tdpeterson• 14 years ago

We created AppThwack for developers to test Android apps on actual phones and tablets before releasing to the market. In addition to addressing issues with fragmentation by running against many device-OS combinations, we provide a centralized tool that combines screen-shots, logs, and full logcat dumps in one place, sortable by test, device, or result. We keep historical results and track trends as well.

When a developer uploads an app, it's tested on all of our devices in parallel and results update in real time. Our basic service runs a generic set of smoke and performance tests requiring no configuration at all, and we also support custom tests, including those made with Robotium (http://code.google.com/p/robotium/).

The demo does not allow uploading apps or changing project settings, but otherwise shows results in the same format as the full version. It's also using emulators hosted on EC2 instead of running against our actual device lab (10 phones, 2 tablets, and growing every day).

My co-founder and I recently quit our day jobs to work on this full time and we'd love to get some feedback. We're starting a small private beta this week.

Thanks for looking!

Show HN: AppThwack, automated Android app testing on real devices

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