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pCloudy Announces Availability of iOS 11.3 and 11.4 (beta) Devices on Cloud

April 9th, 2018 by

iOS 11.3 and 11.4 Available on pCloudy

 
We are committed to keep you ahead of others: pCloudy is one of the fastest to release support of iOS 11.3 and 11.4 beta devices on cloud.

Apple iPhone 7 Plus - 11.3 Os Version

Apple iPhone 7 Plus

Apple iOS Os Version 11.4

Apple iPhone SE

Samsung Galaxy S9 and LG V30 Plus Devices are now available on pCloudy

March 20th, 2018 by

Galaxy S9 and LG V30 are Available

 

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Welcome to pCloudy 5.0

February 20th, 2018 by

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.

 

iOS Connect

 

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.

 

Automation Studio Launch

 

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.

 

Follow Me

 

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.

 

UI Design

 

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.

 

Global File Storage

 

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.

 

comprehensive-reports-at-a-single-stop

 

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.

 

Test Scheduler

 

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.

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

November 30th, 2017 by

Galaxy Note 8 and Google Pixel 2 are Available

 

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Biggest Update Ever

November 27th, 2017 by

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

 

Biggest Update Ever

 

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.

 

Planner calculate your test apps

 

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.

 

Calculate your test coverage

 

2. Log Bugs to JIRA directly from pCloudy Report page

 

Log Bugs to JIRA

 

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)

 

JIRA Login to Test Apps

 

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.

 

JIRA Task

 

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

 

certifaya ai powered app testing

 

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

 

Manual Testing 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.

 

App Launch Completed

 

Watch the intro video of Android Action Repeater (AAR)

 

 

5. Testing your Apps for Voice command

 

Testing your apps for voice commands

 

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.
Read More…

 

inject audio

 

6. It is easier to search a device

 

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.

 

Instant Access

 

7. Plan your Testing based on the availability of Devices

 

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.

 

Real Mobile Devices

 

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

 

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

 

App Performance

 

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”.
 
Application Name

 

10. Improved Performance Graphs with New parameters

 

App Performace Graphs

 

Existing performance graphs have full break up of data for deeper analysis.

 

CPU Data

CPU Data

Memory Data

Memory Data

Network Traffic data

Network Traffic Data

Battery Consumption Graph
battery consumption graph

11. pCloudy-Appium client for Nodejs

 

We have released pCloudy-Appium client for the users who want to use nodejs for their test automation to run on multiple devices on pCloudy.

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Certifaya – AI Powered App Testing

October 18th, 2017 by

pCloudy’s Certifaya

 
The emergence of mobile applications for everything around us is mind boggling to say the least. All the things you would want- “There is an app for that”.

With consumers spoilt for choices, it’s a critical task to the people who are responsible for the quality of these mobile applications. Smallest of glitch and user’s are ready to click uninstall.

In order to ensure that your customers have the best of experience with your app, it needs to work on hundreds of mobile devices with various screen sizes, varying OS and different user conditions. Time consuming and exhaustive task.

Isn’t it critical to accelerate this process?

To churn out better apps faster, developers need deeper insights faster then ever.. This is where machine learning algorithms come in. They are analytics driven which makes it easier to look for patterns and monitor your app for issues, like crashes, memory spikes, high CPU, slow response time, battery drain and many other key parameters.

So, the question is, can Machines and intelligent technology become the newest buddy for you? Yes, we say. Let’s the new tech churn out data for you, and you focus on analyzing, fixing and delivering faster to the world.

Let’s see what’s up our sleeves.

A Single Click Automated App Certification with bots

pCloudy has developed a Single click App certification feature within its platform.

 

 

How pCloudy’s Certifaya makes a difference?

Simplicity is at the core of pCloudy’s Certifaya platform. All users need to do is to upload their app and ask the platform to run a test. Within minutes Certifaya spits out your report after monitoring, finding critical issues and presenting in the form of detailed blocks, screen grabs and videos of the sessions. The users also get recommendations to quickly fix the issues.

 

 

Developing apps quickly but with best of quality is mission critical. Bots make a huge difference here. Certifaya bots are designed for

Running Crash Test Scenarios: Bots run the crash test covering several installation/un-installation scenarios along with random events on the App, that too, on multiple devices. The best way to do a sanity check.

Swift and Deep Exploratory Tests: Smart bots crawl the App automatically and navigate through the App path like any human would do, collecting loads of relevant data for the App.

With above two tests, you get a comprehensive report on the App’s functionality and performance on multiple devices within few minutes. Have a look at a sample report. Gone are the days when you are churning out builds and waiting for hours to get a feedback.

Keep in mind that the best practices in the industry are evolving at a quick pace. Cloud adoption has accelerated quick testing practices.

Give your existing Testing practice power of Certifaya and accelerate your testing like never before.

 

Try now, your first run is free.

Test For Voice/Audio Commands on pCloudy Devices

October 6th, 2017 by

Audio Test Commands

 
Now a day’s many apps can be operated by using voice commands. For example Google voice search , Evernote voice / audio note etc.,
Now you can send voice command to pCloudy devices while testing such apps

Below are the steps to perform audio command testing.

1) Upload the audio file which is having audio command (like .mp3, .wav etc.,) in MyApp/Data by clicking upload button

Note: if you don’t have audio file you can use the below mentioned website to generate sample audio files.

url: http://www.text2speech.org/

Browse App


2) Install any Android /iOS application in device which is enabled voice search feature. For this article we have taken Amazon app as an example.

Install App


3) Open the application and click on search field and then click on microphone symbol

Inject Audio


4) Select Inject Audio option from Device settings options and select the audio clip

Select App


5)The audio file is played at the Audio-in of the device . This way app will identify command in audio clip

Audio Typing


6) As you can see the above screenshot the search text has identified the voice command

Audio Playing in device


Note: As of now audio command test can be done on limited set of device , You can search for those device by using the audio tag filter in the device page as shown in below screenshot.

Select Audio

Taking Our Customer Success Initiative Several Notches Higher

September 28th, 2017 by

Success Initiative

 
We have always believed that personalized customer support is one of our key differentiators. Over last two years of our journey, we have taken several initiatives to make our customers happy such as 15 min first response, a dedicated customer success manager and 24×7 support team to mention a few.

But in the age of social media and continuous connectivity, we felt that days of ticketing systems are gone. We need to connect with the customer in real time. Why should a customer wait without certainty for an email response from support team? Moreover, if the email doesn’t solve the problem, the customer has to wait for another iteration of email-chain.

We are extremely happy to announce the launch of real-time chat feature from within our platform.

Customer support

Customers can talk to our support team while they are using the platform. They can get their queries or problems resolved as soon as they face. All this with a single click.

Customer Support

Initial response has been extremely positive. We can’t wait to hear from you.

A Dedicated Mobile Device Cloud Now In Australia

September 13th, 2017 by

Mobile Device Cloud

 
pCloudy announces the launch of its device data center in Australia

It’s been a great year for us in terms of customer acquisition. We got a great response for our last data center in the US. We asked our customers which location they would like us to start next. UK and ANZ emerged as a preferred choice.

We are happy to announce our new device data center in Melbourne, Australia.

This means that you can now test your Apps on Australia specific Mobile devices with local Telco Networks such as Vodafone, Telstra and Optus.

AU Devices

We hope this move will help you further increase your test coverage and increase your savings on device testing.

Continuing this journey, we will setup the UK Data center very soon.

Keep sending your suggestions and voices. We are listening!!!

pCloudy Announces Availability of Android 8.0 Oreo Devices on Cloud

August 22nd, 2017 by

Availability of Android 8.0

 

We are committed to keep you ahead of others: pCloudy is one of the fastest to release support of Android 8 Oreo devices on cloud, as always

Google has just released the Android 8 Oreo, With the Android 8.0 Oreo version released in the market, we expect many users to adopt 8.0 quickly.

Have you started thinking: is your Android App compatible with this latest release?

pCloudy is happy to announce that we have released our support for Android 8.0 Oreo on our cloud. pCloudy customers can use the Android devices with Android 8.0 Oreo for testing their applications either manual or automated way.

 

Manual Testing

You can access the Android 8 Oreo device like any other Android device and check the compatibility of your app.

 
Android 8.0 Oreo

 

pCloudy recommends all the customers to start testing their Android apps on Android 8.0 Oreo to identify glitches.

Happy Testing!!!