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Sony

Sony devices added to Testdroid

May 14, 2013
Sony devices added to Testdroid

"Today we’re happy to tell you that a number of Sony devices have been made available at Testdroid Cloud, which is a premier cloud-based Android testing platform for apps and games. Testing and verification are becoming more and more important for app and game developers, as more software platforms and devices are introduced all over the industry. To make it easier to verify your apps and games, Sony and Bitbar (the company behind Testdroid) have added a number of different Xperia™ devices to the Testdroid Cloud service"

NASDAQ

This Startup's 'Stunning Customer List' Was Worth a $3 Million Investment

April 18, 2013
This Startup's 'Stunning Customer List' Was Worth a $3 Million Investment

"Facebook , LinkedIn , Flipboard, Evernote, Pinterest, PayPal and eBay are just some of the companies that use Bitbar's lead product, Testdroid. While it might sound like something out of science fiction, Testdroid is actually a tool that allows mobile developers to virtually test their products on hundreds of Android devices. "

The Next Web

Finland’s Bitbar nabs $3m from Qualcomm and others to bolster its mobile app testing platform

April 17, 2013
Finland’s Bitbar nabs $3m from Qualcomm and others to bolster its mobile app testing platform
"Bitbar, the Finnish startup behind cloud-based mobile app testing service Testdroid, has secured $3 million in funding from DFJ Esprit, Qualcomm Ventures, Creathor Venture, Finnvera Venture Capital and TEKES.

The company offers mobile software development and testing solutions that allow app developers and publishers, including major ones like Wooga, LinkedIn, Flipboard, SwiftKey, Pinterest and Evernote, to test their software for mobile platforms."

TechCrunch

Bitbar Raises $3M From Qualcomm, Creathor, DFJ Esprit, And Finnvera For Its Testdroid Mobile App Testing Platform

April 17, 2013
Bitbar Raises $3M From Qualcomm, Creathor, DFJ Esprit, And Finnvera For Its Testdroid Mobile App Testing Platform

"Bitbar, the startup behind cloud-based mobile app testing platform Testdroid, has announced that it has closed a $3 million funding round. The round was led by Creathor Venture, DFJ Esprit, Finnvera Venture Capital, and, interestingly, mobile chipmaker Qualcomm via its venture arm, Qualcomm Ventures. Finland’s TEKES financing also participated."

Gigaom

How the cloud helped social gaming firm Wooga prepare for its Android invasion

December 13, 2012
How the cloud helped social gaming firm Wooga prepare for its Android invasion
"There’s a couple of providers coming up just now, where via the internet you have remote access to devices running thousands of kilometers away. We do that currently for over 100 real devices." -- Jens Begemann, CEO of Wooga

Europe Unlimited

2012 European Venture Contest selects Award Winners in Berlin

December 11, 2012
2012 European Venture Contest selects Award Winners in Berlin
"Companies participating European Venture Contest were evaluated on all qualifying events, online reviews, and the European Venture Summit as the EVC Final on the below 7 criteria.
  • Business potential
  • Team experience
  • Product/Technology merit
  • Competitive position
  • Investment or partnering interest
  • Project profile quality
  • Presentation quality
Based on these criteria, Bitbar was selected as the best ICT start-up company in Europe."

WIP Connector

Tool Time: Testdroid with Bitbar

November 30, 2012
Tool Time: Testdroid with Bitbar
"The richness and variety of devices with different form factors, specifications and price points create the biggest opportunities for any Android developer but at the same time it causes a lot headache to developers. Google is doing a great work on providing easy ways of creating apps that should work across all Android devices but many device manufacturers 'differentiate' their offering by creating their own UI. By doing so they have created a compatibility mess that can be managed by automating the app testing with tools like Testdroid. Something that used to take days now takes just minutes."

Tech Crunch

Cisimple Launches A Hosted Continuous Delivery Platform For Mobile: Makes Building, Testing And Deployment Easier On Developers

November 27, 2012
Cisimple Launches A Hosted Continuous Delivery Platform For Mobile: Makes Building, Testing And Deployment Easier On Developers
"'Cisimple automates the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications. The company is offering hosted Continuous Integration for both the iOS and Android platforms to start, with other platforms planned for the future. For better providing services to users, Cisimple also integrates with Testdroid.

SwiftKey

Bitbar – Automated cloud-based testing for Android

November 15, 2012
Bitbar – Automated cloud-based testing for Android
"One thing that scares me as a quality engineer is the adoption of new tools and library. Before adopting one I always need to write down what I call the “adoption risk analysis”. I absolutely do not want to be forced to ask the team to rewrite all the tests because we have to change a testing tool. With Testdroid this is absolutely not an issue. Testdroid runs (and generates) normal Android instrumentation tests which means that there are no adoption (and no leave) costs."

Tech Crunch

AppThwack Takes On Android Fragmentation With New Automated Testing Service

July 03, 2012
AppThwack Takes On Android Fragmentation With New Automated Testing Service
In this article, Sarah Perez nicely describes Testdroid as the gold standard for automated Android app testing services: "Smaller developers without their own in-house QA departments often outsource their testing to services like Testdroid, for example, which tests their Android apps on physical devices."

The Droid Guy

Testdroid Testing Platform for Android Announced at Google I/O 2012

June 30, 2012
Testdroid Testing Platform for Android Announced at Google I/O 2012
"Not only will this platform reduce the length of test considerably, it also helps developers build high quality apps by giving them the resources and environment they need to work productively. The platform provides automated tests so the people behind the existence of millions of apps will not be hassled during the development and dry-runs. With this, the resources that could be used for customer support will also be reduced as well as the possible expenses each developer has to pay."

Inside Apps Magazine

The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7

June 29, 2012
The state of the Android platform: from monetization to China to the Nexus 7
"Billy Rutledge, head of Google developer relations: “There’s a company called Bitbar with an application called Testdroid. What they do is broker that app in parallel to hundreds of devices, run your user interaction script and send you back failure reports and screenshots. It lets your team see how your app runs across hundreds of devices, without having to buy and maintain your own inventory of test material."

Gadget detail

Bitbar’s TestDroid cloud based app testing platform is now online

June 29, 2012
Bitbar’s TestDroid cloud based app testing platform is now online
"QA is important for any mobile app developers because they don’t want bad ratings and uninstalls to sink their app,” said Marko Kaasila, CEO, Bitbar. “The performance of a popular game comes across as poor in a low-end phone, which is troublesome because the biggest casual gaming demographic, 13-25 year olds, is the demographic for those phones.”

PR Newswire

Testdroid Delivers Cloud-Based Testing Platform For Android Mobile Devices

June 28, 2012
Testdroid Delivers Cloud-Based Testing Platform For Android Mobile Devices
"Bitbar, the leading cloud-based Android testing platform, announced today the commercial availability of its end-to-end automated testing solution to Android mobile app developers at Google I/O Developer Conference, June 27-29 in San Francisco."

Adobe Developer Connection

Supporting the multiple screen sizes of multiple devices in Adobe AIR

June 11, 2012
Supporting the multiple screen sizes of multiple devices in Adobe AIR
The article introduces Testdroid as an ideal way to ensure their applications scale nicely across different resolutions and screen sizes.

Smashing Magazine

Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps

June 01, 2012
Getting To Know The Android Platform: Building, Testing And Distributing Apps
"Services such as Testdroid enable developers to test their apps on multiple real devices through a Web interface. Simply upload your app’s package and automated testing script, and the service executes your scripts on dozens of devices. Results can be viewed in a Web browser. Examining screenshots from different devices is even possible, to ensure pixel-perfect UIs."

Android Spin

Testdroid brings simplified Android app testings with over 100 devices ready and waiting

March 13, 2012
Testdroid brings simplified Android app testings with over 100 devices ready and waiting
"If you’re a budding developer, you might want to give this a look. The service allows for fully automated testing of your applications and gives you complete test results with screenshots, detailed logs and application performance information on a clear and easy to use web interface."

PR Newswire

Testdroid makes testing Android Applications easy as 1-2-3

March 12, 2012
Testdroid makes testing Android Applications easy as 1-2-3
"This end-to-end solution provides the first fully automated, scalable testing platform for any Android application developer, from one-man game developers to large corporations developing a number of apps."

Arctic Startup

Bitbar Announces Funding, Releases Services For Automatic Android App Testing

March 09, 2012
Bitbar Announces Funding, Releases Services For Automatic Android App Testing
"We know that Testing Android applicatons for device compatbility on real devices is currently a major pain but we are stll amazed of the high demand for our service." says Marko Kaasila, CEO of Bitbar. "With over 60 000 tests run within the frst 3 months is a strong proof that this kind of service is desperately needed to take the pain away.”

Qtcstation.com

Testdroid - a great test solution for Testing automation in Android

September 05, 2011
Testdroid - a great test solution for Testing automation in Android
"Adding yet more value to this are companies like bitbar who provide a plugin for Eclipse called testdroid which makes recording a UI test of your app, child's play. Very cool and worth checking out!"

What others say about us

May 14, 2013

"Today we’re happy to tell you that a number of Sony devices have been made available at Testdroid Cloud, which is a premier cloud-based Android testing platform for apps and games. Testing and verification are becoming more and more important for app and game developers, as more software platforms and devices are introduced all over the industry. To make it easier to verify your apps and games, Sony and Bitbar (the company behind Testdroid) have added a number of different Xperia™ devices to the Testdroid Cloud service"

April 18, 2013

"Facebook , LinkedIn , Flipboard, Evernote, Pinterest, PayPal and eBay are just some of the companies that use Bitbar's lead product, Testdroid. While it might sound like something out of science fiction, Testdroid is actually a tool that allows mobile developers to virtually test their products on hundreds of Android devices. "

April 17, 2013
"Bitbar, the Finnish startup behind cloud-based mobile app testing service Testdroid, has secured $3 million in funding from DFJ Esprit, Qualcomm Ventures, Creathor Venture, Finnvera Venture Capital and TEKES.

The company offers mobile software development and testing solutions that allow app developers and publishers, including major ones like Wooga, LinkedIn, Flipboard, SwiftKey, Pinterest and Evernote, to test their software for mobile platforms."
April 17, 2013

"Bitbar, the startup behind cloud-based mobile app testing platform Testdroid, has announced that it has closed a $3 million funding round. The round was led by Creathor Venture, DFJ Esprit, Finnvera Venture Capital, and, interestingly, mobile chipmaker Qualcomm via its venture arm, Qualcomm Ventures. Finland’s TEKES financing also participated."

December 13, 2012
"There’s a couple of providers coming up just now, where via the internet you have remote access to devices running thousands of kilometers away. We do that currently for over 100 real devices." -- Jens Begemann, CEO of Wooga
December 11, 2012
"Companies participating European Venture Contest were evaluated on all qualifying events, online reviews, and the European Venture Summit as the EVC Final on the below 7 criteria.
  • Business potential
  • Team experience
  • Product/Technology merit
  • Competitive position
  • Investment or partnering interest
  • Project profile quality
  • Presentation quality
Based on these criteria, Bitbar was selected as the best ICT start-up company in Europe."
November 30, 2012
"The richness and variety of devices with different form factors, specifications and price points create the biggest opportunities for any Android developer but at the same time it causes a lot headache to developers. Google is doing a great work on providing easy ways of creating apps that should work across all Android devices but many device manufacturers 'differentiate' their offering by creating their own UI. By doing so they have created a compatibility mess that can be managed by automating the app testing with tools like Testdroid. Something that used to take days now takes just minutes."
November 27, 2012
"'Cisimple automates the build, testing and deployment process for mobile applications. The company is offering hosted Continuous Integration for both the iOS and Android platforms to start, with other platforms planned for the future. For better providing services to users, Cisimple also integrates with Testdroid.
November 15, 2012
"One thing that scares me as a quality engineer is the adoption of new tools and library. Before adopting one I always need to write down what I call the “adoption risk analysis”. I absolutely do not want to be forced to ask the team to rewrite all the tests because we have to change a testing tool. With Testdroid this is absolutely not an issue. Testdroid runs (and generates) normal Android instrumentation tests which means that there are no adoption (and no leave) costs."
July 03, 2012
In this article, Sarah Perez nicely describes Testdroid as the gold standard for automated Android app testing services: "Smaller developers without their own in-house QA departments often outsource their testing to services like Testdroid, for example, which tests their Android apps on physical devices."
June 30, 2012
"Not only will this platform reduce the length of test considerably, it also helps developers build high quality apps by giving them the resources and environment they need to work productively. The platform provides automated tests so the people behind the existence of millions of apps will not be hassled during the development and dry-runs. With this, the resources that could be used for customer support will also be reduced as well as the possible expenses each developer has to pay."
June 29, 2012
"Billy Rutledge, head of Google developer relations: “There’s a company called Bitbar with an application called Testdroid. What they do is broker that app in parallel to hundreds of devices, run your user interaction script and send you back failure reports and screenshots. It lets your team see how your app runs across hundreds of devices, without having to buy and maintain your own inventory of test material."
June 29, 2012
"QA is important for any mobile app developers because they don’t want bad ratings and uninstalls to sink their app,” said Marko Kaasila, CEO, Bitbar. “The performance of a popular game comes across as poor in a low-end phone, which is troublesome because the biggest casual gaming demographic, 13-25 year olds, is the demographic for those phones.”
June 28, 2012
"Bitbar, the leading cloud-based Android testing platform, announced today the commercial availability of its end-to-end automated testing solution to Android mobile app developers at Google I/O Developer Conference, June 27-29 in San Francisco."
June 11, 2012
The article introduces Testdroid as an ideal way to ensure their applications scale nicely across different resolutions and screen sizes.
June 01, 2012
"Services such as Testdroid enable developers to test their apps on multiple real devices through a Web interface. Simply upload your app’s package and automated testing script, and the service executes your scripts on dozens of devices. Results can be viewed in a Web browser. Examining screenshots from different devices is even possible, to ensure pixel-perfect UIs."
March 13, 2012
"If you’re a budding developer, you might want to give this a look. The service allows for fully automated testing of your applications and gives you complete test results with screenshots, detailed logs and application performance information on a clear and easy to use web interface."
March 12, 2012
"This end-to-end solution provides the first fully automated, scalable testing platform for any Android application developer, from one-man game developers to large corporations developing a number of apps."
March 09, 2012
"We know that Testing Android applicatons for device compatbility on real devices is currently a major pain but we are stll amazed of the high demand for our service." says Marko Kaasila, CEO of Bitbar. "With over 60 000 tests run within the frst 3 months is a strong proof that this kind of service is desperately needed to take the pain away.”
September 05, 2011
"Adding yet more value to this are companies like bitbar who provide a plugin for Eclipse called testdroid which makes recording a UI test of your app, child's play. Very cool and worth checking out!"
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