Developing enterprise-quality mobile apps

The growing importance of mobile applications as a core part of the enterprise service portfolio is putting greater pressure on developers to integrate their development with the agile process, together with optimising the efficiency of development and testing with continuous integration, delivery, and testing now widely used with enterprise applications.

To help make this happen, Bitbar Inc., the creator of cloud-based development and testing products for Android and iOS apps and games, Testdroid, has introduced new pricing for Testdroid Enterprise. This is an on-premise deployment option and can help developers significantly to reduce the most expensive cost drivers in mobile app development.

Crashes, bugs and other issues with mobile apps, coupled with the realisation and reporting of those challenges, consume a lot of developers’ time. As developer time is the biggest cost item in bug fixing, optimising the developer efficiency and minimising the lost lifetime value of mobile app users is the most crucial task for any brand building mobile apps.

Efficient finding and fixing of software defects before the application is published leads to increased revenue due to better positioning against the competition, and faster time to market.

With Testdroid Enterprise, mobile application developers can fully integrate continuous testing as part of their development process with a device lab in their own premises. Building an in-house development and testing environment is easy, fast and straightforward with Testdroid Enterprise, and as a result the continuous testing environment enables its users to integrate their own build systems and internal infrastructure efficiently to the environment. The locally deployed Testdroid solution also provides the best security for its users to test and manage results.

Continuous testing, together with daily builds and the agile development process, can bring a number of benefits. For example, it can save in App Development Costs. Continuous testing on real mobile devices saves up to 80 percent on the budget for mobile app development-testing cycle and process. It can also reduce risks with proactive, agile testing on real devices. Testdroid Enterprise provides its users a complete visibility and understanding of the maturity level of those applications under the development.

It can also speed up time-to-market  and improve app ratings and brand reputation.  

“Testdroid Enterprise has been seen as a missing link in agile process to significantly improve the efficiency of simultaneous development, integration and testing of mobile apps. This product for mobile developers and their continuous integration process truly solves the efficiency challenges that too many major brands are fighting against when building their apps,” said Jouko Kaasila, President and CEO of Bitbar Inc.

As well as providing the mobile industry’s most flexible testing solutions, Bitbar also provides its customers with a full range complementing testing services, including assisting in test automation implementation. Testdroid enables its customers to get the most robust and reliable apps and games built for their end-users with the fastest time to market.