Testing
Detox and Appium are the two dominant mobile E2E testing frameworks, but they take fundamentally different approaches. Detox is a gray-box framework purpose-built for React Native — fast and reliable but React Native only. Appium is a black-box framework that works with any mobile app on any platform
Mobile Testing
Mobile teams constantly fight the same battle: test code for iOS and Android is 80% identical but diverges on selectors, gestures, permission dialogs, and platform-specific behaviors. The naive approach is two separate test suites. The right approach is shared test logic with platform adapters. This guide covers the architectural
Mobile Testing
BitBar is a mobile device testing cloud now owned by SmartBear. It provides real Android and iOS devices for automated and manual testing, with strong Appium support and integration with popular CI/CD tools. If your team uses other SmartBear products (ReadyAPI, TestComplete), BitBar fits naturally into that ecosystem. This
Mobile Testing
Running Appium tests against pCloudy's real device cloud is fundamentally the same as running against a local Appium server — you're still sending WebDriver commands — but the capabilities configuration, authentication, and parallel execution model have pCloudy-specific details that take time to figure out from documentation alone.
Mobile Testing
Getting from zero to a running test on pCloudy takes about 30 minutes if you know what you're doing. This guide walks through account setup, uploading your app, running a manual session, and then automating that same flow with Appium — against real physical devices. Account Setup Go to
Appium
WebdriverIO's Appium integration is the smoothest way to write mobile automation tests in JavaScript.
Appium
Appium's XCUITest driver wraps Apple's XCUITest framework, which means iOS automation runs through the same testing infrastructure that Xcode uses natively.
Appium
Simulators and emulators catch most bugs, but some issues — memory pressure, thermal throttling, hardware-specific rendering, carrier network behavior — only appear on real devices. Device farms give you access to hundreds of real iOS and Android devices without maintaining physical hardware. This guide covers running Appium tests on the three
Testing
axe-core is the most widely deployed accessibility rules engine in the world, and it works inside Appium test suites — not just on the web. By injecting axe-core into WebView contexts within hybrid and cross-platform apps, you can run the same accessibility rules in your mobile CI pipeline
Testing
Meta Quest is an Android device with a custom launcher and VR compositor on top.
Testing
One of WebdriverIO's most powerful capabilities is its integration with Appium for mobile testing.
Testing
Appium and Espresso are the two most popular frameworks for Android UI testing.