Avinash Tiwari | Posted on February 22, 2023February 22, 2023 | 2 min Read

Application Performance Monitoring

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) involves employing various strategies and tools to ensure the efficient operation of business applications. These apps need to meet the performance, reliability, and user experience requirements set by stakeholders, such as employees, clients, and partners.

Mobile Application Performance Monitoring is a part of the broader term Application Performance Management, which encompasses all aspects of managing an application’s performance, while APM focuses on monitoring an application’s performance. In simple terms, monitoring is an integral part of management.

What is the purpose of APM?

The main goal of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is to maintain an application’s optimal performance and smooth operation. It enables linking application performance to business results, detecting and correcting mistakes before they impact end-users, and minimizing mean time to repair, aiding organizations in maintaining business continuity and enhancing customer satisfaction

Why is APM crucial?

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is important because of all the advantages it offers to a business in terms of operational effectiveness, brand recognition, and long-term cost savings.

By enabling front-end monitoring, managing the user experience, back-end monitoring of the services and dependencies used by the app, and infrastructure monitoring, APM offers improved collaboration and coordination in the application delivery process. This promotes seamless and transparent application delivery and the elimination of silos.

APM safeguards the organization’s reputation and brand image by ensuring applications are reliable and accessible. Poor application performance can lead to user dissatisfaction, lower application utilization, slower adoption, and decreased revenue. APM is essential to maintaining a good reputation and ensuring application success.

App Performance while conducting Manual Tests

The performance of an app can be viewed real-time while conducting functional tests. You can simply select the application installed on the device from the Tools section to view a graph of Memory and CPU usage, with the packets/bytes consumed in the Data Usage.

All information captured during a app testing session is gathered by the platform and stored in a secure location to be used later. When a tester completes his testing session using a device, the performance related information can be found in the Cloud Drive.

Battery Consumption

The Battery Consumption graph indicates Battery consumption by Device, Battery consumption by Application and Battery consumption in %.

CPU Consumption

The CPU consumption of an App is plotted as CPU consumption in percentage against Time Duration in seconds.

Memory Consumption

The CPU consumption of an App is plotted as Memory consumption in ‘Mb’ against Time Duration in seconds.

How pCloudy can help you?

Mobile application testing does not stop when all the functional tests pass. Testing the application performance monitoring is a critical step before releasing it.

pCloudy helps you with performance profiling of your mobile apps. You can view the CPU usage, Memory usage, Data usage and Battery consumption while performing a series of actions on the app. The Real time app performance monitoring feature helps you to keep track of the app’s performance while conducting manual tests. You can even check the performance consistency of the app by running automation test suites in parallel on multiple devices and by also simulating different network environments.

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 | 2 min Read

Navigating through Uncertain times – My journey as an Entrepreneur

As I write this today, it’s been almost two months of full-scale disruption across the world due to Corona Virus pandemic.

As humans, we always have this tendency to believe that we can control the impact of events around us, until one day something exceptional happens and it breaks every assumption and norms, we are familiar with.

With no time to realize or sync in with the change, the world was struck with a sudden lockdown and crisis. We all were only surrounded by uncertainty and were panic stricken.

On the positive side, this period has forced everyone to slow down and focus on what’s really important at the moment. The word “essential” is clearly itched in our minds for some time to come.

At individual level, our mindless pursuit of material well-being has been replaced by our inner well-being. We are celebrating the return of fresh breathing air, clear blue skies, a fresh tinge of green in plants and trees around today.

After staying in a never thought of lockdown for more than 50 days, I thought of sharing my experiences and feelings and how I, as an entrepreneur am coping up with these uncertain times.

So, I would break this entire situation into 3 phases, which I am sure most of you would be able to relate to.

Phase 1: Chaos

This crisis created a chaos which forced us to think about what the essential elements for our business are. Does it matter how fancy our offices are, or how big the lunch or dinner is for a client? So, we started looking at three core essentials.

a) Our Product – What problem are you solving as a business and is it relevant in today’s time? At the same time will it be relevant for the coming future?

We started looking at it by asking the basic fundamental question – If we have to start the business all over again today, what part of business we would like to build? This analysis really helped us figure out what’s essential for us as a product/offering and business model? Apart from above, some open-ended questions helped us reimagine the future roadmap of product.

1. What are we currently not doing for our customers?

2. What are the needs of the customers for which there are no solutions?

3. Which areas of our existing customers are growing?

b) Our people – Removing all the fringe around people we had built over the years, it’s really “them” which has become the most important aspect now. If organisations want employees to do and deliver more, then employees must feel valued as people. That’s especially critical when health concerns intersect with work responsibilities. Guarding my most critical asset—my employees—both physically and mentally is my top priority now.

c) Our Customer – What is essential with the customer right now? Empathy, ability to listen and be a 2 AM friend to your customer. Flexibility to find ways to sail together in these difficult times.

We realised that hard selling can boomerang. Companies are already facing tough time. It was important to take care of the loyal clients and invest in them more. We decided to use this opportunity to strengthen your relationship with them and build more trust.

Phase 2: Stabilisation

With the teams settling to the new working conditions and adapting to virtual collaboration, we focused on the things that we as a businesses can and can’t do. We knew this is going to be the new normal and we had to develop well thought out contingencies and new approaches.

a) Not to keep head in the sand:

Financially, we immediately prepared ourselves for the plan A (worst case) and Plan B (optimistic case) and Plan C ( aggressive) . We started with Plan A. Whatever cost optimisation was needed was done quickly. We decided the focus areas based on whatever signals we were getting. Almost daily monitoring of situation helped us move switch from Plan A to Plan B and finally to Plan C quickly.

b) Spark the team spirit and keep moving together:

We created focused group of people handling different areas of organisation and had discussions with them on daily/weekly basis. We have started a lot of initiatives for learning new skills which can be anything apart from work. Learning a new language, cooking, photography anything…that you craved to do all this while. Trust me, I have seen a tremendous improvement in my team’s productivity and efficiency. They are more accountable and responsible towards their work and that has led us to witness some significant success even in these times.

c) Be human. Be helpful. Show solidarity. Mindful marketing: It is high time that we come out of the notion of business as usual. This is the time when we are doing “business unusual”, and it’s likely to be that way for some time. We reoriented our sales team not to be 2AM friends to our customer, not to hard sell but empathise. We checked with our clients and partner if they need any help. Help them in whatever way you can. It’s was and still is important to keep your name out there, but make sure you’re not being tone-deaf.

Phase 3: Realisation

Now, this is the current phase I am in, and it is truly an exciting phase for me as an entrepreneur and for us a company. With the help of our customers, partners and my team, we have got a fair idea of where the businesses will begin to focus. Ours being a enterprise SAAS product over cloud, has done wonders for companies adapting to the new working culture. We have a huge growth in the month of April and it’s continuing. We have been able to clear significant product backlog with some really exciting new features. We are upgrading our data centres to be ready for increasing load. At the same time, we have started our new DC in Singapore. We have on-boarded middle management in key areas of pre-sales and customer support. Overall, lots happening.

We are also mindful of the fact that crisis is not over. Situation across the world is still fluid. It’s difficult to predict the future at this moment. So, we have to be on our toes for some time to come. We have to be agile and adapt to the situation. But last two months have given immense learning as a business and personally as an entrepreneur.

I read this quote somewhere, and it’s truly what I believe in now – ‘Out of constraints comes creativity, out of chaos comes growth, out of fear comes success’.

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on February 26, 2019October 23, 2019 | 2 min Read

How to Analyze Data to Predict Your Optimum Device & Test Coverage?

It’s time to predict

Imagine that you developed a mobile app but it does not work properly on some devices as the device fragmentation is getting more complex with time. This will be a tester's nightmare as the users will drop the ratings of the app which will lead to a decrease in the downloads.

Teams need to consider the device usage patterns across geographies to test their apps. This will lead to smooth app functionality across all digital channels. This is the need of the hour.

We can optimize the device and test coverage by using data analytics in app testing instead of relying on guesswork. You can also watch the webinar video where we have covered this topic extensively.

Before we move on, let’s understand some of the terms that will be used in this article.

Terminology

Term	Description
Stock Android	A basic and unmodified version of OS developed by Google.
Android Custom ROM	Read Only Memory modified to provide better functionality than that in Stock Android.
Manifest file	The manifest file describes essentialinformation about your app to the Android build tools, the Android operating system, and Google Play.
Compile SDK version	The version of Android that the build tools uses to compile and build the application in order to release, run, or debug
Minimum SDK version	The oldest version that you want your app to support.
Target SDK version	The version of Android that your app was created to run on.

The growing complexities of Device Fragmentation

While 70% of the Apple devices are running on the latest iOS 12, only 0.1% of the Android devices run on the latest Android 9.0. According to statista.com, Android 7.0 is still being used by 19% of the Android users, followed by Android 6.0 with 21.6% Android user share. Around 7.8% of the Android users are still using Android 4.4 which was released in 2013. In 2018, 88% of the mobile devices were running on Android operating system compared to 12% iOS devices.

It is not feasible to run a test on all the devices as the permutations will be huge. There are 16 device display categories, 20 different resolutions, 15 android versions, 400 android device manufacturers and multiple cellular networks. I am sure you will be able to relate to it. So, there are two traditional ways to create an optimum device matrix. First is based on market penetration and the second is based on device diversity. Here is a brief overview of both the ways we have been using on our convenience.

To get a better understanding of the device fragmentation based on operating system, we need to understand the basics of Android architecture. So let's get on with it.

Android Architecture

Android is an open source operating system based on the Linux kernel created for an array of devices. Android has a five-layer architecture as mentioned below:

Linux Kernel: It is the base of the Android operating system. It gets the
work done from the hardware for e.g. camera, display, Wi-Fi etc.
Hardware Abstraction Layer: It provides standard interfaces that expose device hardware capabilities to the higher-level Java API framework. The HAL consists of multiple library modules, each of which implements an interface for a specific type of hardware components, such as the camera or Bluetooth module.
Native C/C++ libraries: It consists of some logical instructions that are sent to the kernel to perform an action.
Android Runtime: It compiles the applications from java code to byte code which Linux can understand.
JAVA API Framework: The entire feature-set of the Android OS is available to you through APIs are written in the Java language. These APIs form the building blocks you need to create Android apps.
System Apps: These are apps built in the device like calculator, clock, calendar etc.

Source: https://developer.android.com/guide/platform/

In some cases, mobile device manufacturers make customizations in the Android architecture to enhance the user experience. That is done by using custom ROM.

Why bugs occur

One of the major reasons for bugs is the fast evolving Android platform. If you have built an application then you need to ensure that the app works on various API levels that are still used widely. Every new API level launch comes with changes in the guidelines and this raises the chances of app failure. Many brands like Xiaomi, One Plus, Huawei etc, keep releasing new phones and as an update, they customize the ROM. All their devices have diverse specifications like screen size, RAM, processor, camera etc. In the table below you will see the layers of android app stack and how they are divided into two sections the higher level and the lower level.

The OEMs make changes in the lower level system to add a device specific functionality by creating a supporting driver at the hardware abstraction layer. So if the driver has a bug than the higher level system will have a bug too as the APIs communicating with those drivers will also have the bugs. The OEMs also change the higher level system to enhance their UI and these changes also create compatibility issues.

OEMs customizations and its impact

According to Statcounter, this year's data shows that Samsung and Apple have almost 32% and 23% of the market share in mobile sales worldwide. Chinese companies like Xiaomi, Huawei, and Oppo has around 20% market share combined. There are several local OEM's in many countries adding to the diversity in mobile devices. Many OEM uses custom ROMs to provide added features but custom ROMs comes with some duplicate apps.

Most of the custom ROMs like MIUI and Oxygen OS has its own calendar app, music app, and their own browser. UI skins are a significant source of fragmentation in OEMs. This means that we need to consider custom ROMs while creating a strategy for device coverage.

How Android evolved and its impact

Android has released many versions and API levels since its inception. API level is a unique identification code which is given to every framework API revision offered by a version of Android. For e.g., Android 8.0 is API level 26, Android 8.1 is API level 27 and the next version Android 9.0 is API level 28. Developers can specify the compile SDK version, target SDK version and a minimum SDK version in the manifest file of an app as it tells you which app is supported by a particular device.

What we have seen so far

We have observed a trend in the occurrence of compatibility issues and their root causes. We can divide the compatibility issues into two groups, device specific and non-device specific. In device specific issues the first and the most common root cause is problematic driver implementation. For e.g., there was an issue in some devices related to the proximity sensor. If you bring the device near your year the touch screen should get disabled but that didn't happen in those devices. The second root cause is OS customization. Some devices brought the multi-window support feature where you can open multiple application in a single screen. That
feature created a lot of bugs in most of the applications. The third issue is peculiar hardware composition.

Type	Root Cause	Percentage of Issues	Issue Examples
Device-Specific	Problematic Driver Implementation	23%	Proximity Sensor issue in Samsung devices
	OS Customization	10%	Multi window support
	Peculiar hardware composition	7%	Amazon Fire: OMX Codec issue
Non-device Specific	Android Platform API evolution	47%	API level 26: 8.0: Internationalization
Non-device Specific	Original Android System bugs	13%	Android 8.1 Bluetooth issue

The majority of compatibility issues falls under non-device specific issues. Most common of these are due to changes in the Android platform APIs. In Android 8.0 API level 26, there was an internationalization failure. That means if your app is built to work with different languages than it will show a bug. The second root cause in non-device specific issues is the original Android system bug. These issues are resolved quickly as soon as these bugs are reported to Google it releases a patch to fix it.

How to predict

Android regularly publishes release notes on its forums which talks about the behavior changes for all apps. These changes include power management, security behavior changes, Android test changes etc. They also inform about the behavior changes for new apps targeting the particular API level. This information will help you to predict and plan your test cases. You can select the devices for which you need to plan your testing and the functionalities that you need to focus on where there are maximum chances of failure.

For example, if your app uses the current location of the user, then Android 8.0 will have an impact because android has restricted the number of location update when the app uses the background service. You must have observed a lag in the map location in all the delivery service apps like Ola, Swiggy, Uber eats, etc. Another example can be the background execution limit. Apps running in the background consumes device resources and result in unpleasant user experience. That's why Android 8.0 has limited the background execution limit.

We have created a cheat code by analyzing the data that you can refer to perform testing on Android 8.0 and Android 9.0.
Click on this link to download the cheatcode

Conclusion

It's high time that we say testing is just not enough. It's time to predict. Data has a lot to say. You can utilize it to help you in various ways. When predicted accurately, it can take your testing to another level.

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Mobile Devops+Agile – Challenges and Keys to Success

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on February 20, 2018September 5, 2022 | 2 min Read

Welcome to pCloudy 5.0

pCloudy 5.0

pCloudy is a unified mobile app testing platform which is trusted by its users for its excellent performance. We have more than 30,000 users across the globe, and we have received an overwhelming response for our platform. From bot testing to crowd testing, pCloudy has always been a front runner in the market. And with the launch of pCloudy 5.0, we are up for the challenge once again. It is a re-imagined and re-worked upon platform created in-line with intelligence to meet the market demands and accelerate delivery.

Let us have a look at what’s new here:

Features

a. iOS Connect
b. Automation Studio
c. Follow Me

a) iOS Connect: One of the very powerful features that we added is the iOS Connect. The major challenge iOS developers had been facing was the debugging of their iOS apps because of the difficult Apple guidelines regarding building any utility . We are proud to say that we have been successful in cracking that.
With iOS Connect, you can connect to an iOS Device which is present remotely and access the device as if the device is connected to your computer. With iOS Connect we are bridging the gap for the iOS development life cycle.

b) Automation Studio: It is another promising feature that can revolutionize mobile app automation. We now have an in-built automation studio in pCloudy platform where you can access the devices to record your test scripts and execute it in parallel on multiple devices without writing any code.

There’s something more to it! If you already have your projects on Appium you can record your new workflows and export it to Appium Java format. This new integration would not only enable every user to start creating Automation scripts but it will also help Appium users to speed up their Automation. This makes pCloudy truly a Unified app testing platform.

c) Follow me: It is again one of the ‘wow’ features of pCloudy 5.0. This feature can speed up your App Testing exponentially. Follow me allows you to test your apps on 3 unique device while performing your test on only 1 device, thus saving your testing time multi-folds.

Re-Imagined UI

It has been designed to give a leaner, simpler and faster user experience. The look and feel of the pCloudy platform has been transformed keeping in mind the requirements, usability and ease of our users. All the pages have been made more intuitive. To simplify, we have grouped the actions together to save your time in figuring out the next step.

a. True Collaboration
b. Global File Storage
c. Comprehensive reports at a single stop
d. Test Scheduler

a) True Collaboration: We have introduced a powerful feature on our revamped Device Interaction page. Now, you can take the screenshot of the action you are performing and see the screenshot next to the device. But, the icing on the cake is that you can edit the screenshot, save it and log a bug directly to the JIRA enabling true collaboration between the developers and testers.

b) Global File Storage: Heeding to the demands of our users we have reduced the clicks to perform any action on the File browsing /storage page. The file uploaded once will be available across all the different locations we have. It will also allow sharing of files across teams.

c) Comprehensive reports at a single stop: Now, to make the user experience simpler and faster, we have placed all your reports at single stop be it manual or automation across all locations. Not just that, you can see all reports in the same format with much detailed information. Raising bugs after analyzing reports is also possible from here.

d) Test Scheduler: We have re-designed this page based on a Guided interface where the interactions are more thoughtful, straightforward, and guide you to the next step. It needs zero learning to run automation scripts on multiple devices.

pCloudy 5.0 is another breakthrough for us. After launching pCloudy 5.0, it is time to get feedback on a larger scale. We’re going to continue improving the UI, the navigation, and add some futuristic features to make your app testing simpler and faster. While we do that, we’d love to continue getting feedback.

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on January 9, 2018December 5, 2024 | 2 min Read

13 Advantages of Automation Testing

Automation Testing Advantages

With an incessant advancement in technology and mobile eco-space, it is becoming extremely challenging for companies to maintain the quality and efficiency of mobile app development. Testing being one of the major business critical activities is often neglected because of the time and cost limitations. This ultimately leads to a compromised product quality, dissatisfied customer, delayed delivery and an increase in the overall quality costs. The major reasons for an increase in costs can be an ineffective test strategy, underestimated effort of generating a test case, delay in testing or keeping pace with the device fragmentation. Test automation helps to better the development process of a mobile app in multiple ways. Test automation is generally associated with increased effort and the results pay off quickly in return.

Benefits of Automation Testing

1. Faster feedback: Automation of testing actually comes as a relief for development and testing engineers during different phases of an app development life-cycle. It helps to better the communication among coders, designers, product owners and rectifies the potential glitches with no delay. It also increases the efficiency of the development team.

2. Saves time: Writing codes in manual testing is a tedious process especially when the testers have to write long scripts while doing regression testing. The requirement of fast bug free delivery of apps is not fulfilled and companies have to suffer business losses.

3. Early Bug Detection: Unlike manual testing, bugs can be detected early during the development phase in an automated testing which saves a lot of time during Mobile app development life-cycle for both developers and testers.

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4. Re-usability of Scripts: Testing automation makes the lives of the testers easy. The scripts can be reused with no or minimal changes in the script. These scripts can be used multiple times no matter if there are changes in the OS version of the device. The scripts and steps are stored and it helps to repeat the test without skipping or forgetting any step.

5. Running tests anytime, anywhere: Automated testing help test engineers to run their tests 24/7. If the test engineer has to leave early for the day, he can easily schedule the tests and leave the office. The test results will be ready by the time he logs in again next morning.

6. Distributed Test Execution: Automation testing cuts down complexities with its distributed test execution feature. It helps the testers to run a test script on more than one computer or shared network or servers simultaneously. So, only an automation testing tool is the requirement rather than multiple tools.

7. Robust and simpler reporting: Automation testing gives us the benefit of tracking each test script. All the test scripts executed will be visible in visual logs. The reports generated can evidently show the number of test scripts already executed, scheduled, their reported bugs or issues and the ways in which they have been fixed.

8. Testing Capabilities: Automated testing offers an unmatched and huge testing capability. The mobile app needs to be tested on multiple devices, OS versions, screen sizes etc. which can be efficiently done through automated testing and not by manual testing. In fact, it is almost impossible to get perfect results through manual testing.

9. Better Test Coverage: Test automation can easily execute thousands of different complex test cases during every test run providing coverage that is impossible with manual tests. It can only be possible through automated testing as it can run test scripts on multiple computers with varied configurations. It can look inside an application and see memory contents, data tables, file contents, and internal program states to determine if the app is functioning as expected.

10. Less Manual Effort: If an enterprise has implemented automation tools for testing, then it can accelerate the process and reduce the manual effort multi-fold. Less number of people will be required for a project and they can be utilized for different projects.

11. Improves Accuracy: We have been saying this time and again that automation testing overcomes the shortcomings of manual testing. It has improved the accuracy to a great deal by giving error-free results unlike manual testing where testing is error-prone, delays the delivery and increases the cost. It is especially a boon in stress testing where getting error free results in manual testing is almost impossible.

12. Return on Investment: One of the most important advantages of automation testing is the return on investment to the organization. Every enterprise analyses the return it would get out of its investment and then would go for creating a test automation framework. Automated testing offers immense returns in terms of faster testing, error-free results, less manual effort. If the enterprise has automated testing tool, then the testing would be more efficient and accurate and easy.

13. Volume: You can run your tests on more than 500 devices in automation testing which is impossible in manual testing.

One of the most important business advantages of automation testing is the return on investment to the organization. There are many advantages of automation testing tools as they are a crucial component in the DevOps toolchain. The importance of automation testing comes into picture when you have to run the test cases with different data and conditions several times.

Conclusion

Automation testing not only helps in saving time and improving accuracy, it does value addition to all the stakeholders involved in the app development lifecycle. Although testing automation offers such huge benefits, but many organizations have not adopted it in its entirety because of its initial cost associated with its configuration. With Agile testing and DevOps methodologies being widely followed in the IT industry, it is advisable to automate your testing processes completely with renowned automated testing tools to get the best results.

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Avinash Tiwari | Posted on December 29, 2017September 5, 2022 | 2 min Read

Year 2017 at a Glance!

pCloudy 2017

2018 is around the corner and it’s just the time to recap on the major events and milestones of pCloudy in 2017. We thank each one of you for your immense support and trust you bestow on us that keeps us working towards improving pCloudy to meet all your testing needs.

Let’s recap:

GROWTH OUTPACING THE MARKET: Mobile Application Testing Market is on a rapid trajectory and is currently a 3.2 Bn USD industry and is estimated to reach 6 Billion USD by 2021. The growth is not getting stagnant anytime soon. Technavio’s analysts forecast the global Mobile App testing services market to grow at a CAGR of 18.31% during the period 2017-2021. With an incessant growth in the app testing market, pCloudy made a remarkable progress outpacing the market growth and making more than a 100% jump in its user base. More than 17,000 users registered on the pCloudy platform this year.

GEOGRAPHICAL EXPANSION: pCloudy added another feather in its cap and launching its 4th data center in Melbourne, Australia. The launch of the data center is aimed at tapping the Australian app market helping our customers increase their app coverage to ANZ region.

PARTNERSHIP WITH IT STALWARTS: 2017 was indeed a great year for us as we partnered with some of the IT stalwarts like Infosys, Wipro, Hexaware Technologies, UST Global and many more.

MAJOR PRODUCT BREAKTHROUGHS: pCloudy in its incessant effort to make faster and effective, we got two major breakthroughs this year. Let’s have a look at them:

CERTIFAYA: Understanding the needs and analyzing the market trends, pCloudy created a milestone by introducing Certifaya – AI powered bot testing to make testing faster and efficient multi-folds.

CROWD4TEST: Another major breakthrough for pCloudy this year has been the launch of crowd testing. This feature can help app testers get feedback from the real users before its market launch.

INDUSTRY RECOGNITIONS: We are honored to get our hard work recognized by major industry analysts this year. Let’s peep through our recognitions:

G2 Crowd Test Automation Grid: Having received multiple valuable feedback from real users, pCLoudy has succeeded in becoming a part of G2 Crowd Test Automation Grid.

Lead Story in ET CIO: ET CIO covered a story on pCloudy and published it as their lead story in December this year putting an icing on the cake and making our efforts worth appreciation. You can have a look at the story here.(https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/enterprise-services-and-applications/how-pcloudy-platform-is-solving-mobile-application-testing-challenge/61956020)

PRODUCT ENHANCEMENT: We understand the importance of product enhancement in technology industry and that’s why we keep on upgrading our product to serve you better. This year we have upgraded it with 11 new features which makes this as one of the biggest product update ever for us. We have introduced features like –

Planner where you can get the latest stats of the market penetration of devices from across the globe. Some of the features will have a significant impact on the way you currently test your Apps.

Integration With JIRA: pCloudy introduced this feature where a tester can now log bugs directly to JIRA while testing the application on pCloudy. All relevant data can be attached in a single click.

JMeter: As pCloudy has always been working towards making testing fast and efficient, it has recently launched a plugin for JMeter to bring you an insight about the Performance Testing of your application.

A PART OF AGILE TESTING CONFERENCE, 2017: pCLoudy participated in the Agile Testing Conference, 2017 and showcased its products under two main divisions – mobile app testing platform and Robotics. It was a great show and we received phenomenal response from the audience.

A BLEND OF WORK AND FUN: pCloudy is not just committed to its customers but also to its employees. Bringing a smile on every pCloudian is a reward and acts as a catalyst in improving our performance. Every pCloudian believes in working hard and partying even harder.

We are thankful to each one of you for your trust and support throughout. Embarking on such a journey would have been impossible without you. We are proud of our achievements even this year but will strive to have more exciting starts and remarkable successes in 2018. We will continue to improve our products and make your experience with pCloudy a remarkable one.

Appy Holidays and have a great year ahead!!

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on December 11, 2017September 5, 2022 | 2 min Read

Save 20% on All Flagship Packages at pCloudy!

Special 20% discount

Every special day is a reason to celebrate and be joyous about and to add more excitement to this holiday season; we are offering a special 20% discount on all our flagship products.

pCloudy is growing with you and we leave no stone unturned to keep you happy. To make this holiday season business worthy, here is a chance to get any of our products (Click here to visit the packages) for 20% off.

This discount is live & anyone can take advantage of this special offer until 31st December midnight. The 20% discount will be applicable to your order by applying a coupon code HOLIDAY17. This is a onetime offer and we would like each one of you to get the maximum benefit out of pCloudy.

With this, we wish you all a super holiday season and enjoy this 20% discount from the pCloudy team.

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Avinash Tiwari | Posted on November 30, 2017September 5, 2022 | 2 min Read

Samsung Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2 Devices are Now Available on pCloudy

Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2 are Available

Avinash Tiwari | Posted on November 27, 2017September 5, 2022 | 2 min Read

Biggest Update Ever

pCloudy 4.6

We have always believed that product enhancements need to reach the customer as quickly as possible. Their feedback is the most important part of the product evolution journey.

So, we can’t wait to unveil what we have created in the last few months. We have upgraded it with 11 new features which makes this as one of the biggest product update ever for us.

Some of the features will have a significant impact on the way you currently test your Apps.

We bring to you the guide that will help you to get the most out of the Biggest Update Ever!…Here is what you can find new in the product.

1. Check the Device matrix to be used before you start Testing

Are you always puzzled about what all devices should be a part of your test scope? We have made that decision easy for you by introducing Planner. Planner will help you to calculate your test coverage on an optimal set of devices.

This feature will help you get the latest stats of the market penetration of devices from across the globe. Choose your market coverage and geography to get the list of devices you should be ideally opting for your test.

2. Log Bugs to JIRA directly from pCloudy Report page

We understand the pains a tester goes through and that’s why we have introduced this feature to bring an end to all your woes! Now you can log bugs directly to JIRA while you are testing your application on pCloudy. You can attach relevant data in one single click.

Let’s see how this feature can help you log bugs in JIRA:

Provide your credentials once and we store the authentication cookie provided by JIRA.

(Note : we don’t store your credentials)

After logging in you will come across a JIRA Task pop up where you can easily log a Bug or Task to JIRA along with relevant attachments (screenshots, logs or video links). No need to download a file and then upload it separately to JIRA.

3. “Certifaya” –Our AI powered App Testing engine is smarter now

Our motto is to make your life easy and we always work towards making the testing quick and simple for our clients. Not only this, we provide more and more data about the App under test to improve the quality rapidly.

We released a new version of Certifaya with the following changes-
a) Certifaya coverage across devices has been increased.
b) Moreover, you can provide App credentials or other sets of Test data.

Now you can use Certifaya every time you make a change to your App. In less than 15 mins!!

Watch our latest video for Certifaya!

4. Speed up your Manual testing speed using Action Repeater

Android Action Repeater (AAR) can speed up your Manual App Testing exponentially. AAR observes your manual test steps on a device, records it, and repeats it on one or multiple devices, thus saving your time to perform sanity checks, prerequisite setup or a full fledged functional test.

Watch the intro video of Android Action Repeater (AAR)

5. Testing your Apps for Voice command

Now a days many apps can be operated by using voice commands like Google voice search, Evernote voice / audio note etc. pCloudy understands your requirement and gives you an option to send voice commands to pCloudy devices as well while testing such apps.
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6. It is easier to search a device

Searching for a device is the most frequently used task in the platform. We have made searching simpler for you. Now you can use the free text search to find a device by the name of its OS version.

Moreover, we have added quick search filters for most common searches.

7. Plan your Testing based on the availability of Devices

When you are searching for the desired devices you may not see that device online if other user is using it at the same time. You may want to plan your test activity based on the next availability of the same device. We value your time and to make your testing efficient, we have made that information available and you can see the status of some devices as ‘Busy’ if it’s in use and the indicative time by when the device will be available next.

Moreover, you can even see which devices are ‘Offline’. You can now request for such devices to be made available.

8. IOS App Resigning made easy

We have built IOS App resigning as a separate utility, so that you can resign your iPAs once and upload it on all our cloud locations.
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9. New App performance parameters

New App Performance Parameters have been introduced in pCloudy to let you have better insights about your app and also to know how it is performing on different devices.

We have added new parameters “Frame Rendering Time”.