Home > Blog > Year in Review event 3min Year in Review Avinash Tiwari Home> Blog> Year in Review pCloudy 2016 at a Glance I hope you had an amazing year, so we hope you are enjoying the festive time with your family and friends. We would like to take a moment to thank you for supporting us through out the year, which has been a great year for pCloudy. We achieved several milestones in the year 2016. Here is summing up the year. Thanks again and wishing you happy holidays. Summing Up the Year Geography pCloudy extended its device cloud operations to US and Philippines. Our customers are now able to test their Apps on local devices and local networks of India, US and Philippines. Device Cloud Growth We grew rapidly this year becoming one of the largest device cloud provider from India. Industry Recognition pCloudy got recognition from top Industry Analysts from across the globe. Presence in Global Events pCloudy was part of all major global testing conferences. Support of audience was phenomenal. Jenkins World 2016 Software Testing 2016 Start East Testing 2016 New and Improved UI for Device Access Based on feedbacks from users, we came up with new UI for device access page. Now it’s easier and faster to test Apps on devices. We received many thumbs up from the users. Launch of in-built Automation Engine (OpKey Integration with pCloudy) pCloudy becomes the only device cloud to have a record and playback engine in-built. This allows customers to quickly create automated scripts without writing a single line of code. Robotic Integration for IOT App Testing The future of app testing in IoT lies in integrating app interaction with external hardware triggers. pCloudy released it’s first version of pBot for NFC and Payment terminal testing. Advance Features We implemented many new features to ensure that our users gets full range of Test capabilities for their Mobile Apps. ADB Bridge – Developers can use this feature for real time debugging of their Apps Network Simulation – Now Apps can be tested on variety of Network conditions Automation Live view – While users could run their tests on multiple devices, now they can see it as well Support for new tools pCloudy now supports most of the popular open source tools used by Dev and Test community. We added Espresso, Monkey Test Many New Integrations While we had a great working platform in by the end of 2015, there were still several integrations required. We wanted to give far more to our customers – Jenkins, Android Studio Plug-in, Eclipse Plug-in. A Lot of Fun Final Words We are very happy about all of our achievements in 2016, but even more so, we wish you many new exciting starts and remarkable successes in 2017. Our team will continue to exert every effort to improve our products and make your Mobile App triumph with pCloudy platform. Have a Happy Holiday and New Year.
Home > Blog > Test Your Apps on Real Devices Using Cool Plugins Features 3min Test Your Apps on Real Devices Using Cool Plugins Avinash Tiwari Home> Blog> Test Your Apps on Real Devices Using Cool Plugins Test Apps on Real Devices Using Eclipse or Android Studio to code your app? Now with just a few simple mouse clicks test apps directly and in parallel on multiple real mobile devices. Eclipse and Android Studio are two popular IDEs for mobile app development. The reason behind their popularity is, these are open source tools and have a great community of developers whom you can turn to for any support. Anyway, if you are one of those mobile app developers using these popular IDEs then there’s good news for you! What if you could extend the capability of your IDEs to improve the quality of your apps? What if you could test your app on hundreds of mobile devices right from your IDE? What if you could with the help of simple plugins take your mobile app development process to a whole new level? Well, you can – with a simple yet salient solution from pCloudy.com. With a cloud based device lab, pCloudy is contributing to the cause of redefining mobile app testing by providing remarkably useful platform and plugins to test your apps on real mobile devices. As mentioned in our previous articles, it is not enough if mobile apps are tested on Emulators alone. We need to ensure that the apps are tested on Real Devices as well. It is also important to test your mobile apps on different devices based on a carefully analysed device matrix to hit maximum downloads. To continuously develop, integrate and release mobile apps in your DevOps environment such solutions are crucial. Here’s how can our plugins benefit you Description: Our Plugins act as a wizard that allows you to: extend the ability of Eclipse to use real devices over a cloud platform select and install an app from a Cloud Drive or from local select multiple real devices from a cloud (Public, Private, On-premise) to test your app run test scripts in parallel on multiple devices perform Automation or Manual Testing How does it work? If you have already created Test Scripts ready for Test execution, then all you need to do is to select some real devices over the cloud platform and run the execution to test your app. To help you out with this, the Plugin generates a pseudo-code that can simply be copied into your existing test scripts using Android Studio or Eclipse. With simple changes in the test script, the app will get installed and test execution is performed on the selected mobile devices. In the end, a detailed automation report will also be generated through our platform. With these plugins app developers and testers can: choose from hundreds of mobile devices to test your App effortlessly test their apps directly on real mobile devices can view or perform an activity on mobile screen from directly within on your IDE perform automation runs in parallel on multiple mobile devices Download and install the plugin: pCloudy Plugin for Eclipse IDE pCloudy Plugin for Android Studio