How They Automate on Mobile
Kind of topics here
- Testing
- Tooling
- CI/CD
Companies
Adore Me
- Android and iOS App testing with Appium and WireMock, 2019 (series of articles)
Airbnb
- Writing fast, deterministic and accurate Android Integration tests, 2017
- Building Mixed-Language iOS Project with Buck, 2017
- Our Swift Style Guide Is Now Open Source, 2019
- Better Android Testing, 2019 (series of articles)
- Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
- Accelerating Mobile UI, 2021
- Testing strategy, 2021
- Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on iOS, 2021
- Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on Android, 2021
- Automated UI Infrastructure in Jetpack Compose using KSP, 2023
- Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS, 2023
Apple
- Testing
- Distribution
- Continuous integration and delivery
- UI Testing in Xcode, 2015
- Automating App Store Connect, 2018
- What's New in Testing, 2018
- Testing Tips & Tricks, 2018
- Testing in Xcode, 2019
- Expanding automation with the App Store Connect API, 2020
- Identify trends with the Power and Performance API, 2020
- Eliminate animation hitches with XCTest, 2020
- Write tests to fail, 2020
- XCTSkip your tests, 2020
- Handle interruptions and alerts in UI tests, 2020
- Get your test results faster, 2020
- Use Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode, 2020
- Triage test failures with XCTIssue, 2020
- Diagnose Power and Performance regressions in your app, 2021
- Distribute apps in Xcode with cloud signing, 2021
- Embrace Expected Failures in XCTest, 2021
- Meet Xcode Cloud, 2021
- Customize your advanced Xcode Cloud workflows, 2021
- Diagnose unreliable code with test repetitions, 2021
- Author fast and reliable tests for Xcode Cloud, 2022
- Get the most out of Xcode Cloud, 2022
- Deep dive into Xcode Cloud for teams, 2022
Asana
ASOS
Avito
- Open source: CI/CD and test infrastructure for Android, 2019
- Workaround for Android lint that doesn't use Gradle Worker API, 2020
- Removal of ui tests impact analysis functionality, 2021
- Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
- Testing strategy, 2021
- Emcee — the test runner for iOS developers, 2022
Babbel
Badoo
BBC
- Testing BBC iPlayer Release For Android Downloads, 2013
- Automating testing for BBC iPlayer mobile, 2014 (series of articles)
BlaBlaCar
Box
CapitalOne
- Test-Driven Development – Ready, Set, Go with Google Cloud Test Lab, 2016
- Robot Pattern Testing for XCUITest, 2018
- Improvement and Parallelization of Android Automation Testing, 2020
- Using Stub vs Mock in iOS Unit Testing, 2020
- Using Apple’s Main Thread Checker Tool on UI Tests, 2021
- Getting Started With iOS UI Testing, 2021
Carousell
Carsales
Circle K
- Testing strategy, 2021
Compass
Disney + Hotstar
DoorDash
- Why We Use KIF-Quick for User Interface Tests, 2016
- Using Automated Testing to Scale Android Development with a Growing Team, 2017
- Contract Testing with Pact, 2018
- How to detect iOS memory leaks and retain cycles using Xcode’s memory graph debugger, 2019
- Our "Tech Stack" in the Android Dasher App, 2019
- A Framework For Speedy and Scalable Development Of Android UI Tests, 2020
- Building Multiple Distinctly Branded iOS Apps from a Single Codebase, 2021
- How to Speed Up SwiftUI Development and Testing Using PreviewSnapshots, 2023
- How We Reduced Our iOS App Launch Time by 60%, 2023
Dropbox
- Modernizing our Android build system, 2019 (series of articles)
- Revamping the Android testing pipeline at Dropbox, 2020
- How we sped up Dropbox Android app startup by 30%, 2021
- Introducing Focus, a new open source Gradle plugin, 2022
eBay
- Functional iOS Testing in Swift, 2015
- Test automation for Android testing, 2016
- Parallizing UI tests on iOS, 2016
- Android Accessibility Automation with Espresso, 2017
- Speed By A Thousand Cuts, 2020
- eBay Motors: Screenshot Testing with Flutter, 2020
- Homepage Speed Improvements on eBay Android, 2020
- The Journey to Integrating Android App Bundles, 2020
Etsy
Expedia
- Timed releases for mobile apps, 2012
- Buck: How we build Android apps at Facebook, 2013
- Building Mobile Apps with Open Source Tools - Mobile @ Scale, 2013
- How Facebook Tests Facebook on Android, 2013
- Airlock – Facebook’s mobile A/B testing framework, 2014
- Mobile End to End Testing at Scale, 2015
- Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android, 2015
- Improving Facebook’s performance on Android with FlatBuffers, 2015
- Performance instrumentation for Android apps, 2015
- Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster, 2016
- Automatic memory leak detection on iOS, 2016
- The mobile device lab at the Prineville data center, 2016
- Android accessibility debugging with Stetho, 2016
- Managing resources for large-scale testing, 2017
- Rapid release at massive scale, 2017
- Open-sourcing RacerD: Fast static race detection at scale, 2017
- Turning iOS End to End Testing up to 11, 2017
- HotSwap: Bringing hot code reloading to Buck, 2018
- Open-sourcing Flipper: a new extensible debugging tool, 2018
- MobileLab: Highly accurate testing to prevent mobile performance regressions, 2018
- Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps, 2021
- Open-sourcing Mariana Trench: Analyzing Android and Java app security in depth, 2021
Flipkart
FloBiz
Ford
- Testing strategy, 2021
FunCorp
- Creating Impactful Messages With Ad Testing, 2021
- Testing Your Implementation on Ad Networks, 2021
- Writing your profiler to analyze application performance on Android, 2021
- Stopping NSZombie Invasion, 2022
- Jetpack Microbenchmark: Code Performance Testing, 2022
- Make your iOS app suitable for UI auto-testing, 2023
GitHub
Gojek
- How to Use Templates to Improve the Android Studio Experience, 2019
- How We Improved Performance and Build Times in Android Studio, 2019
- Screenshot Testing our Design System on Android, 2020
- Test Mobile Apps Using Web Traffic Interception and Mocking, 2020
- Running CI for mobile engineers at scale, 2020
- Reducing Build Time For Gojek #SuperApp, 2020
- Making Our iOS Components Accessible, 2021
- Better Secure Than Sorry | Tips To Secure An iOS App, 2021
- Mono Repo Vs Multi Repo: Tips To Re-evaluate Codebase Structure, 2021
- Reducing Our Build Time By 50%, 2022
- Demystifying Code Generation On iOS, 2022
- Migrating An Xcode Command Line Tool Project to SPM, 2022
- Espresso: Fresh Start to Android UI Testing, 2013
- Building Scalable Mobile Test Infrastructure for Google+ Mobile, 2013
- Android UI Automation, 2013
- Breaking the Matrix - Android Testing at Scale, 2013
- Make Chrome the best mobile browser, 2014
- Going Green: Cleaning up the Toxic Mobile Environment, 2014
- The Importance of Automated Testing on Real and Virtual Mobile Devices, 2014
- Automated Accessibility Testing for Android Applications, 2015
- Mobile Cross-Platform Integration Testing, 2015
- Integration Testing with Multiple Mobile Devices and Services, 2016
- SRE for Mobile Applications, 2018
Grab
- Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Integration Testing, 2019
- Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation, 2019
- Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts, 2019
- Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing, 2020
- How Grab is Blazing Through the Superapp Bazel Migration, 2020
- App Modularisation at Scale, 2021
- How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools, 2023
Halodoc
- Testing strategy, 2021
Helpshift
Huawei
- Android | Product Flavors and Build Variants, 2020
- Automate Deployment to Huawei AppGallery Connect using Fastlane, 2020
- React Native | Integrating Your Applications With AppGallery Connect, 2021
- Android UI Testing Made Easy: Espresso vs. Barista, 2022
- Robolectric : The Ultimate Testing Framework for Android Developers, 2023
- How to Test the Navigation Component in Jetpack Compose?, 2023
- Unit Test in Jetpack Compose, 2023
HubSpot
Instabug
- Testing strategy, 2021
Intel
Karumi
- Testing strategy, 2021
La Redoute
leboncoin
- Writing Custom Lint Checks with Gradle, 2014
- Managing iOS Continuous Integration at Enterprise Scale, 2015
- Mock the Internet, 2015
- Effective Layout Testing Library for iOS, 2016
- UI Automation: Keep it Functional – and Stable!, 2016
- 3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases, 2016
- 3x3: iOS Build Speed and Stability, 2016
- Upgrade Testing on iOS: Keeping up with 3x3, 2016
- Open Sourcing Test Butler, 2016
- iOS: Test Pyramid, 2016
- Open Sourcing Dex Test Parser, 2017
- Managing documentation at scale, 2019
- LinkedIn’s approach to automated accessibility (A11y) testing, 2020
- Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator, 2020
Livefront
- 4 tips for using Carthage, 2017
- How to add a dynamic Swift framework to a Command Line Tool, 2018
- Swift expected nil, not , 2018
- Unit Testing race conditions by creating chaos (Swift), 2018
- Adventures in iOS Dev Automation, 2018
- The First 2 Commits Every Android Project Should Have, 2019
- Android Static Code Checks — Keep Your Codebase Tidy With Detekt, 2020
- Dagger Hilt: Testing injected Android components with code coverage, 2020
- How to connect your Android emulator to a local web service, 2021
- Five Reasons To Write Unit Tests, 2021
- Tracking Android project build times, 2023
- XCTestCase Life Cycle Management, 2023
Lyft
- Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
- Testing strategy, 2021
- Building an Enterprise IntelliJ Plugin for Android Developers, 2021
- Mobile Performance @ Lyft, 2021
- Monitoring CPU performance of Lyft’s Android applications, 2022
- Shift-Left iOS Testing with Focus Flows, 2022
- Detecting Android memory leaks in production, 2023
Medium
Mercari
- Super fast and parallelized Android UITest(Appium) environment using AWS, Docker and Android emulator, 2018
- How HeadSpin will change mobile testing and monitoring?, 2019
- Specifying Kotlin tests with Spek, 2019
- Testing Redux-based iOS app, 2019
- Building automated workflow using Slackbot and CircleCI, 2020
- Compiling for iOS on Apple M1, 2021
- Bazel Remote Execution for iOS Builds with Apple Silicon, 2021
- Automatically generating snapshot tests from Xcode Previews, 2022
- Android automated testing to support one-week releases, 2022
- Leverage Kotlin in your Android CI, 2022
- Fast and reliable iOS builds with Bazel at Mercari, 2023
- Mercari QA and Compose for Android automation, 2023
Monese
- Mobile testing at Monese, 2020
Mozilla
NatWest
- Testing strategy, 2022
Netflix
Nordstrom
- Testing strategy, 2021
Outlook
PagerDuty
Parimatch Tech
PayPal
Picsart
- Continuous integration for iOS with Nix and Buildkite, 2017
- iOS linting at Pinterest, 2017
- Developing fast & reliable iOS builds at Pinterest, 2019
- Ad Metrics Quality and Testing on Mobile, 2019
- Pinterest + ktlint = ❤, 2021
- Moving Pinterest’s iOS Builds to Autoscaled EC2 Mac, 2022
- Pre-Submit UI Tests at Pinterest, 2022
Qonto
Razorpay
realestate.com.au
Revolut
Riot Games
Robinhood
- Testing strategy, 2021
- Removing 30% of our iOS crashes, 2022
Shazam
Shopify
Slack
- Valera Zakharov: Testing, 2017
- Android UI Automation, 2018 (series of articles)
- UI testing is so easy - said no developer ever, 2018
- Mobile performance testing at Slack, 2018
Snap
- Testing strategy, 2021
SoundCloud
Spotify
Square
- iOS Integration Testing, Part 1, 2011
- iOS Integration Testing, Part 2, 2011
- Better Android Testing with Robolectric 2.0, 2013
- The Resurrection of Testing for Android, 2013
- iOS Build Infrastructure, 2015
- iOS 9 upgrade: Why did my unit tests grind to a halt?, 2016
- XCKnife: faster distributed tests for iOS, 2016
- measureBlock: How Does Performance Testing Work In iOS?, 2018
- Announcing cocoapods-generate, 2018
- Shipping Binary Frameworks With Swift 5.0, 2019
- Instrumenting Firebase Test Lab, 2020
- Kotlin-Multiplatform Shared Test Resources, 2021
- Herding Elephants, 2021
- Getting Square's iOS build ready for Apple Silicon with Bazel, 2022
- Stampeding Elephants, 2023
- Supercharging Continuous Integration with Gradle, 2023
Strava
- Release process, 2021
Stream
- Let's test openly, 2022
Swiggy
Target
- Testing strategy, 2021
The Guardian
Tokopedia
- How We Solve The Sideloading Crash After App Bundle Implementation, 2019
- Release Strategy — a twisted tale in apps, 2019
- Modern Way to Reduce Your Android Apps Size With Dynamic Feature, 2020
- Understanding the aspects of iOS App Launch Time, 2020
- Automating Image Compression Using TinyPng & Git Hooks, 2020
- How Tokopedia Achieved 1000% Faster iOS Build Time, 2020
- Simplify Code Review Process with Auto Mention Code Review Systems, 2020
- Making Developers Life Easier With Jenkins-Slack Integration, 2020
- Monitoring Android Codebase, 2020
- Continuous Integration Google Play Store Internal App Sharing In Tokopedia, 2020
- Saving Tons of Time and Money During Remote Work with Auto Upload APK System, 2021
- Facilitate Your iOS Crash Log Translation For Numerous Builds, 2022
- Getting Started with iOS App Modularization — An Introduction, 2022 (series of articles)
- Stop Wasting Time on Unit Testing: How Tokopedia Achieved 8X Faster Results, 2023
Trendyol
- Get the Most Out of UI Tests With XCode Test Plans, 2020
- How to Test Deeplinks with XCUITest, 2020
- Integrate Slather to Trendyol Project, 2021
- UI Test Roadmap with Kaspresso, 2021
- Trendyol Android Team Unit Test Practice, 2021
- Mobile App Complexity: Things to Consider While Estimating Test Effort, 2021
- The Different Types of Testing on Trendyol iOS App, 2021
- Differences Between Mobile Web and Mobile Platform Tests, 2021
- Mocking API Calls in UI Tests, 2021
- How to Make iOS UI Testing fast and reliable, 2021
- How to Write Unit Tests for Selector Functions in Swift, 2021
- Device Selection for iOS App Testing, 2021
- Meaningful Error Messages for iOS UI Tests, 2021
- Make UI Testing possible with TYGenerator, 2021
- Automated Visual Testing With Snapshots, 2021 (series of articles)
- Modularising Trendyol Android App for Build Efficiency, 2022
- Distribute Unclear Responsibilities in The Team With Automation, 2022
- Sample Apps to Achieve 80% Shorter Build Times in Trendyol Android Project, 2023
- Revamping Trendyol’s iOS App: A Modularization Success Story, 2023
- Mock Generator Development With Using Mockolo Library, 2023
- Trendyol Fulfillment Android Instrumented Test CI, 2023
- Managing iOS Tests at Scale: A Symphony, 2023
- Android Test Doubles In Unit Test, 2023
Turo
Uber
Walmart
WeTransfer
Wix
Wrike
Zenjob
Contributors
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Credits
- All the authors and the companies they represented in the resources above
- HowTheyTest for the inspiration
- MobileNativeFoundation for the open discussions
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License
This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. See the LICENSE file.