A mobile testing cloud infrastructure presents an optimal solution for businesses who are looking for convenient and accessible mobile app testing tools that fit into their development processes without the need to set up and maintain an in-house device lab. By enabling testing on hundreds of real devices, cloud-based application testing services can provide an almost instant reduction of downtime, which lowers costs, and helps deliver applications to the market faster.
This paper will discuss different challenges in mobile application testing and will introduce advantages and disadvantages of manual mobile testing as well as mobile app automation testing. It will also introduce and compare the five different mobile testing frameworks, Appium, Calabash, XCUITest, Robotium, and Espresso.
