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Mobile Test Automation: Calabash on Xamarin Test-Cloud

If you are testing your application against emulator / simulator, you will still have risks that the expected features may possible not work on several real devices. To handle the real device testing you should have many devices to run your tests. In the current market, we have lots of possibilities for device and operating system versions combinations. Best approach to find most used devices, you should use some statistical data. Most of the cases Pareto analysis can help for selecting high coverage devices. However if you want to find more bug before release, you can focus on the newest device with latest OS version and the oldest devices with the oldest OS version. Any case you should have at least 5-10 android devices and 3-5 iOS devices for a good level of coverage in the beginning. Therefore managing the devices is another problem if you want to have your own local test suites. As a good alternative you can use the cloud services. In this post I want to share some information a