Kobiton: Multiplying coverage of the mobile experience

An Intellyx Brain Candy Update

Software testing and mobile testing disciplines have long lived in different worlds. Causes and effects are far more easily reproduced through a standardized OS or browser than through diverse mobile device deployments.

Kobiton is starting to crack the code of consistency far beyond the UI layer since our last briefing with them in 2020.  With their acquisition of Mobile Labs last year and integrations to leading software lifecycle tools, Kobiton’s offering is looking less like a mobile testing tool, and more like an enterprise platform for mobile application DevOps automation and collaboration.

There’s technical improvements, such as greatly enhanced replay, visual feedback and performance metrics, to hunt down anomalies that conventional automation would miss, and glitches that manual testers would find hard to reproduce.

Perhaps most intriguing is a new machine learning dimension to their approach as well. Since the company has direct experience testing and getting feedback from successful (and less-than-successful) mobile customer experiences, their platform can recommend functional and performance optimizations designed to make apps more enjoyable for end users as compared to the most popular apps on the market. 

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