Benefits of real device testing on AWS Device Farm (with Demo)

AWS Device Farm - Mobile Testing

Benefits of AWS Device Farm

Use the same devices your customers use:
Run tests and interact with a large selection of physical devices. Unlike emulators, physical devices give you a more accurate understanding of the way users interact with your app by taking into account factors like memory, CPU usage, location, and modifications made by manufactures and carriers to the firmware and software. We are always adding devices to the fleet.

Reproduce and fix issues faster:
Manually reproduce issues and run automated tests in parallel. Device Farm collect videos, logs, and performance data so you can dive deep and solve problems quickly. For automated tests, it will identify and group issues so you can focus on the most important problems first.

Simulate real-world environments:
Fine-tune your test environment by configuring location, language, network connection, application data, and installing prerequisite apps to simulate real-world customer conditions.

Choose the tests that work for you
Run our built-in test suite (no scripting required) or customize your tests by selecting from open-source test frameworks like Appium, Calabash, and Espresso (see supported frameworks). You can also perform manual tests with Remote Access.

Integrate with your development workflow:
Integration with CI/CD pipeline: You can use AWS CodePipeline to incorporate mobile app tests configured in Device Farm into an AWS-managed automated release pipeline. Jenkins plugin for AWS Device farm: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-device-farm-jenkins-plugin

Setup your own private device lab in the cloud
Device Farm’s private device lab offering lets you choose iOS and Android devices for your exclusive use. Device Farm provisions these devices with the exact configurations you need, and lets you persist settings between sessions. Since these devices are exclusively for your use, you don’t have to wait for other users to finish using them.

Simplifying Mobile app testing with AWS Device Farm.

AWS Device Farm - Mobile Testing

With AWS Device Farm, you can interact with real Android and iOS devices from your browser or run automated tests written in popular frameworks like Appium, Espresso, and XCTest.

Device Farm was launched by Amazon in July 2015 and it has been improved a ot over the years. It helps mobile developers test their apps against a large (and growing) collection of real phones and tablets to improve the quality of their apps.

Developers can upload their apps and run tests simultaneously on all of the most commonly used mobile devices across a continually expanding fleet that includes the latest device/OS combinations. As tests complete, developers receive timely reports that identify problems, helping them bring their apps to market faster and with better quality. There is no setup cost to get started with AWS Device Farm, and developers pay as they go.

You can run automated tests as well as connect to the real devices remotely and test manually.

AWS Device Manager  - Mobile Testing

Device farm has a large pool of devices. Here is the complete list of supported devices: http://awsdevicefarm.info/
You can schedule your tests and also do the integration with CI/CD pipeline. Jenkins plugin for AWS Device farm:  https://github.com/awslabs/aws-device-farm-jenkins-plugin.

Watch the Introduction Video:

PS: You can also test your web desktop apps on various rowsers using Device Manager and run your Selenium tests in parallel on multiple versions of Chrome, Internet Explorer, and Firefox, that are hosted in the AWS Cloud.