SOASTA Offers Smart Mobile App Testing Via the Cloud

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Author: Leanne Westphal on January 23, 2012 - 7:37 AM

SOASTA, a six year old company based in Mountain View, California, is announcing its plans this week to update it CloudTest Platform to make it possible for developers to automated testing of their iOS and Android apps. In an interview with Information Week, Tom Lounibos, SOASTA CEO indicated that the human-technology interfaces has moved well beyond traditional keyboard keystrokes, to inputs based on touch and gesture interactions. SOASTA’s TouchTest technology captures interactions on both iOS and Android devices in record and playback mode to allow developers and publishers to have automated feedback on mobile app performance. The CloudTest Platform is well suited to testing mobile devices says Lounibos which require testing "new forms of interaction and movement that have been impossible to test with traditional tools."

Proper testing of mobile apps is important in isolating and eliminating technical and usability flaws. The mobile app is closely associated with the brand that it is supporting, so it is important to simulate a large number of users. Lounibos has a history of doing large scale testing dating back to 2002 when he was involved a previous start-up called Dorado when it was trying to test an online loan system that would support 100,000 users. It was difficult to do accurate testing because it would have taken about 1000 servers. Now with the cloud, large scale testing has become feasible and much more affordable than what was possible previously. Lounibos says that SOASTA CloudTest and CloudTest Lite are capable of capturing and testing end-to-end touch-based and gestures in a way that is more accurate than optical tracking of monitoring app code variables. SOASTA is offering two low cost starter kits, CloudTest iOS Lab and CloudTest Android Lab for test teams.