Cramdroid: Android App 雲端測試平台

Abstract

目前市面中，有許多不同的 Android 行動裝置。每個裝置可能在作業系統版本、作業系統自定環境、以及硬體規格上有不同的差異。所謂的「Android Fragmentation」（Android 分裂）即是在描述如此的狀況，而這個分裂現象造成與其他平台相比，開發者必須投入更多的心力在開發 Android apps 中。 目前，為了解決這個問題，我們必須盡可能的在越多的 Android 行動裝置中進行測試。但是測試本身是有難度的！對測試者來說，他們往往不知道如何將測試版本的應用程式安裝到自己的行動裝置中。同時，當遇到錯誤時，測試者回報的相關資訊往往不足以讓開發者解決問題。而對開發者來說，他們也需要一個平台來管理目前釋出的測試版本。 因此，我們建立了一個叫「Cramdroid」的雲端平台來解決上述問題。我們的目的是減少開發者和測試者花費在測試活動中的成本。同時也設計了一個簡單的工作項目集來驗證 Cramdroid 的可用性。

There are lots of different Android devices in the market. Some are different from the OS version, some are from OS customization, and some are from hardware configuration. This is so called “Android Fragmentation”. The fragmentation makes developers put more effort into developing Android apps more than other platforms. Currently, to solve this problem, we have to test on Android devices as more as possible. But testing itself is not quite easy. Testers don’t understand how to install the testing apps into their Android devices. Also, when an issue occurred, information reported by testers is not always enough for developers. For developers, they also need a platform to manage testing builds they distributed. Hence, we build a platform named “Cramdroid” to solve these problems. We want to reduce the cost of doing testing for both developers and testers. We also designed a simple workshop to evaluate how Cramdroid works.