Continuous Integration for Mobile Development Prior Year Content
Continuous integration (CI) is important to help teams achieve increased release frequency. CI for mobile apps presents unique challenges, requiring teams to discover the recipe that works. Carlo Cadet explores the ingredients you must assemble to achieve CI. Start by setting up a real mobile device lab. To create a true end-user experience, test scripts must run in a lab that is scalable and reliable across real devices. Next, implement functional and non-functional testing as part of each CI build. Effective testing will go beyond the happy path and include the likely network and device conditions typically encountered by users. Implement parallel test execution which allows you to write a script once and test across all devices, networks, and OSs. And finally, sync with the build team to determine the most appropriate device and test coverage executed within builds triggered during the day, nightly, and weekly.