Apple Sauce and Android Sauce

SauceLabs announced today two new services for mobile testing in the cloud, covering both iOS apps and Android apps. Any chance you’ll explore this new pair of options to beef up the mobile section? That’s one of the beauties of a beta book.

Now that I look, there is no mention of the whole idea of testing in the cloud, which is what the creators of Selenium, SauceLabs, built their business around. Especially in the mobile market, whether HTML-based or native apps, this would seem a very logical topic to cover.

Hi, Bob.

We’ve talked about doing a Calabash recipe for native mobile apps, where we’d mention the cloud angle. Although the cloud testing portion is a paid service, the testing library itself is free (and open source) for testing on your own device. Would such a recipe be useful to you?

A Sauce recipe would by necessity be solely about a commercial testing product, something we’ve tried to avoid. Is there a similar roll-your-own cloud solution we could cover (with a nod to Sauce Labs as the premium cloud testing provider)?

—Ian

I would be curious to see Calabash and iPhoneDriver for iOS web applications since that is what I am fated to test at the moment. Alister Scott’s blog mentions using xvfb linux and amazon cloud services? not exactly open source but sort of sauceless ?. But if that was covered I would make a note that there is some debate about testing on what the end user is using. Most users are not using linux or a frame buffer and some things don’t behave in the same manner.
Perhaps covering Selenium Grid would be useful as well. Still need to read the chapters on concurrency. In other words how do you scale a cucumber automated framework?