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A curated collection of publicly available resources on how software companies implement automation on iOS and Android platforms 📱🚢

How They Automate on Mobile

Kind of topics here

• Testing
• Tooling
• CI/CD

Companies

Adobe

• Automate and Speed Up iOS Builds with Xcode Server, 2021

Adore Me

• Android and iOS App testing with Appium and WireMock, 2019 (series of articles)

Agoda

• Optimizing CI/CD Processes with Selective Testing, 2024

Airbnb

• Writing fast, deterministic and accurate Android Integration tests, 2017
• Building Mixed-Language iOS Project with Buck, 2017
• Our Swift Style Guide Is Now Open Source, 2019
• Better Android Testing, 2019 (series of articles)
• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
• Accelerating Mobile UI, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021
• Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on iOS, 2021
• Airbnb’s Page Performance Score on Android, 2021
• Automated UI Infrastructure in Jetpack Compose using KSP, 2023
• Flexible Continuous Integration for iOS, 2023
• Migrating Our iOS Build System from Buck to Bazel, 2024

Apple

• Testing
• Distribution
• Continuous integration and delivery
• UI Testing in Xcode, 2015
• Automating App Store Connect, 2018
• What's New in Testing, 2018
• Testing Tips & Tricks, 2018
• Testing in Xcode, 2019
• Expanding automation with the App Store Connect API, 2020
• Identify trends with the Power and Performance API, 2020
• Eliminate animation hitches with XCTest, 2020
• Write tests to fail, 2020
• XCTSkip your tests, 2020
• Handle interruptions and alerts in UI tests, 2020
• Get your test results faster, 2020
• Use Swift on AWS Lambda with Xcode, 2020
• Triage test failures with XCTIssue, 2020
• Diagnose Power and Performance regressions in your app, 2021
• Distribute apps in Xcode with cloud signing, 2021
• Embrace Expected Failures in XCTest, 2021
• Meet Xcode Cloud, 2021
• Customize your advanced Xcode Cloud workflows, 2021
• Diagnose unreliable code with test repetitions, 2021
• Author fast and reliable tests for Xcode Cloud, 2022
• Get the most out of Xcode Cloud, 2022
• Deep dive into Xcode Cloud for teams, 2022

Asana

• Scaling a Mature iOS Codebase with Tuist, 2023

ASOS

• Witness the (Android) fitness, 2019

AutoScout24

• Optimise battery usage of Android Applications, 2023
• Xcode Build Time Optimization, 2023
• iOS UI Testing with Deep Links, 2023

Avito

• Open source: CI/CD and test infrastructure for Android, 2019
• Workaround for Android lint that doesn't use Gradle Worker API, 2020
• Removal of ui tests impact analysis functionality, 2021
• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021
• Emcee — the test runner for iOS developers, 2022

Babbel

• Continuous integration for mobile, 2015
• An approach to TDD in Android, 2016
• Android Modular Project – Organizing your library dependencies, 2017
• Introduction to Test Automation, 2017
• Different ways to manage feature toggles on iOS, 2019

Badoo

• iOS Parallel Automation, 2017
• Automate the impossible: blending the best of Android drivers, 2018
• Uncover Secrets of Your App with EspressoDriver, 2019

Bam.tech

• Use Systrace to debug your Android app performance, 2021
• Tuist, iOS developer’s new best friend, 2022
• Setting up a modular iOS app for multiple environments with Tuist, 2022
• Adopting Tuist on an Existing Project, 2022
• Android app performance: optimize startup time with “above the fold” technique, 2023
• Swift mocking and generating fake data: building effective and maintainable tests, 2023
• Unlocking New Possibilities with Maestro: Beyond Automated Testing, 2024

BBC

• Testing BBC iPlayer Release For Android Downloads, 2013
• Automating testing for BBC iPlayer mobile, 2014 (series of articles)

BestSecret

• Evolving our Android CI to the Cloud, 2024 (series of articles)

Bilue

• How to version your app in a continuous development world, 2021
• Caring for your dependency garden: An approach to Android Dependency Management, 2022 (series of articles)
• Elevating UI Automation: Testing Compose Animations Beyond Appium’s Reach, 2024

BlaBlaCar

• 4 tips to master XCTestExpectation, 2017
• Building our Lego library on iOS, 2017
• Reducing the build time of BlaBlaCar’s Android app, 2021
• How to make your Android app resilient to process death?, 2022

Box

• Virtualizing Mac Infrastructure at Scale, 2019

Bumble

• Add Superpowers to your Appium-Android tests, 2018
• The secret to great code reviews, 2018
• White-box testing with Appium Espresso Driver, 2019
• Swift Package Manager builds iOS frameworks, 2019
• Continuous delivery for your Kotlin Multiplatform library, 2019
• Using Hopper to investigate an iOS bug, 2020
• Catching bugs on the client-side: how we developed our error tracking system, 2020
• Automating Android Jetpack Compose using Appium, 2021
• Mobile test automation practices, 2021 (series of articles)
• Android Lint and Detekt warnings in GitHub pull requests, 2022
• How to compare .apk / .aab files, 2023 (series of articles)
• Crafting Android bytecode analysis tooling using a secret ingredient, 2024 (series of articles)
• Scaling iOS at Bumble, 2024 (series of articles)

CapitalOne

• Test-Driven Development – Ready, Set, Go with Google Cloud Test Lab, 2016
• Robot Pattern Testing for XCUITest, 2018
• Improvement and Parallelization of Android Automation Testing, 2020
• Using Stub vs Mock in iOS Unit Testing, 2020
• Using Apple’s Main Thread Checker Tool on UI Tests, 2021
• Getting Started With iOS UI Testing, 2021

Carousell

• Carousell scales app automation with Browserstack, 2022

Carsales

• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021

Cash App

• Making iOS Accessibility Testing Easy, 2020
• Taking Bug Reporting Further, 2021
• Great teams merge fast, 2021
• Debugging UI Issues with AardvarkReveal, 2021
• Migrating from Burst to TestParameterInjector, 2021
• Flow testing with Turbine, 2023
• Mocking isn't evil, but avoid it anyway, 2023

Circle K

• Testing strategy, 2021

Compass

• Compass Mobile Engineering, 2017
• Automated Mobile Distributions, 2017
• How to UI Test Push Notifications and Universal Links in the iOS Simulator, 2021
• Moving Fast With Maps (Automation) On iOS, 2021

Disney + Hotstar

• Using Apple's Testing Mjölnir: XCUITest, 2020

Dodo Pizza

• QA Mobile Technology Radar, 2023
• iOS Technology Radar, 2023
• Android Technology Radar, 2023
• Release Train in mobile development, 2023

DoorDash

• Why We Use KIF-Quick for User Interface Tests, 2016
• Using Automated Testing to Scale Android Development with a Growing Team, 2017
• Contract Testing with Pact, 2018
• How to detect iOS memory leaks and retain cycles using Xcode’s memory graph debugger, 2019
• Our "Tech Stack" in the Android Dasher App, 2019
• A Framework For Speedy and Scalable Development Of Android UI Tests, 2020
• Building Multiple Distinctly Branded iOS Apps from a Single Codebase, 2021
• How to Speed Up SwiftUI Development and Testing Using PreviewSnapshots, 2023
• How We Reduced Our iOS App Launch Time by 60%, 2023

Dropbox

• Modernizing our Android build system, 2019 (series of articles)
• Revamping the Android testing pipeline at Dropbox, 2020
• How we sped up Dropbox Android app startup by 30%, 2021
• Introducing Focus, a new open source Gradle plugin, 2022

eBay

• Functional iOS Testing in Swift, 2015
• Test automation for Android testing, 2016
• Parallizing UI tests on iOS, 2016
• Android Accessibility Automation with Espresso, 2017
• Speed By A Thousand Cuts, 2020
• eBay Motors: Screenshot Testing with Flutter, 2020
• Homepage Speed Improvements on eBay Android, 2020
• The Journey to Integrating Android App Bundles, 2020

eDreams ODIGEO

• Creating a Post-commit hook with Swiftlint Autocorrect, 2020
• Keep those warnings away! — Add Android Lint to your CI pipeline, 2021
• Tuist Your Circle, 2023 (series of articles)

Engenious

• Xcode Parallel Test Execution of XCUITest is a Joke, 2023

Entri

• Device Wall — Unlocking the Power of Parallel Mobile Automation with Appium, and Raspberry Pi, 2023
• Mastering Local Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment, 2023
• Mastering Event Validation in Android Apps: A QA Engineer’s Guide, 2023

Etsy

• Etsy's Device Lab, 2013
• Static Analysis with OCLint, 2014
• Etsy’s Journey to Continuous Integration for Mobile Apps, 2014
• Building a Better Mobile Crash Analytics Platform, 2016
• How Etsy Ships Apps, 2017
• Culture of Quality: Measuring Code Coverage at Etsy, 2018

Expedia

• Mobile Automation in Continuous Delivery Pipeline, 2013
• How Expedia.com Uses Accessibility Automation, 2020
• Improving iOS UI Testing, 2020

Facebook

• Timed releases for mobile apps, 2012
• Buck: How we build Android apps at Facebook, 2013
• Building Mobile Apps with Open Source Tools - Mobile @ Scale, 2013
• How Facebook Tests Facebook on Android, 2013
• Airlock – Facebook’s mobile A/B testing framework, 2014
• Mobile End to End Testing at Scale, 2015
• Stetho: A new debugging platform for Android, 2015
• Improving Facebook’s performance on Android with FlatBuffers, 2015
• Performance instrumentation for Android apps, 2015
• Open-sourcing ReDex: Making Android apps smaller and faster, 2016
• Automatic memory leak detection on iOS, 2016
• The mobile device lab at the Prineville data center, 2016
• Android accessibility debugging with Stetho, 2016
• Managing resources for large-scale testing, 2017
• Rapid release at massive scale, 2017
• Open-sourcing RacerD: Fast static race detection at scale, 2017
• Turning iOS End to End Testing up to 11, 2017
• HotSwap: Bringing hot code reloading to Buck, 2018
• Open-sourcing Flipper: a new extensible debugging tool, 2018
• MobileLab: Highly accurate testing to prevent mobile performance regressions, 2018
• Superpack: Pushing the limits of compression in Facebook’s mobile apps, 2021
• Open-sourcing Mariana Trench: Analyzing Android and Java app security in depth, 2021
• How WhatsApp tests software?, 2023

Faire

• Bringing type safety to UI tests on iOS, 2021
• Faire Tech Talk: Mobile performance monitoring at Faire, 2022
• Faire Tech Talk: Scaling mobile foundation, 2022
• Raising code quality for Faire’s Kotlin codebase, 2022
• Provisioning Jenkins mac1.metal nodes for signing Apple distributions, 2023
• How we build reliable E2E tests for iOS at Faire, 2024

Flipkart

• Optimising Flipkart Android App size to sub 10 MB, 2018
• The Journey of React-Native @ Flipkart, 2020

FloBiz

• Create your own Android Library & Publish it, 2021
• Android CI/CD at myBillBook, 2023

Ford

• Testing strategy, 2021

FunCorp

• Creating Impactful Messages With Ad Testing, 2021
• Testing Your Implementation on Ad Networks, 2021
• Writing your profiler to analyze application performance on Android, 2021
• Stopping NSZombie Invasion, 2022
• Jetpack Microbenchmark: Code Performance Testing, 2022
• Make your iOS app suitable for UI auto-testing, 2023

GitHub

• How we ship GitHub Mobile every week, 2022

Glovo

• Publishing a variant-aware Android library with its sources, 2021
• Linting and formatting Swift code in our apps, 2021
• Accelerate Your Android Development: Top Techniques to Reduce Gradle Build Time, 2023
• Glovo’s Large-Scale App Development: An In-Depth Look, 2023

GoDaddy

• React Native Application UI testing using WebDriverIO and Appium, 2018

Gojek

• How to Use Templates to Improve the Android Studio Experience, 2019
• How We Improved Performance and Build Times in Android Studio, 2019
• Screenshot Testing our Design System on Android, 2020
• Test Mobile Apps Using Web Traffic Interception and Mocking, 2020
• Running CI for mobile engineers at scale, 2020
• Reducing Build Time For Gojek #SuperApp, 2020
• Making Our iOS Components Accessible, 2021
• Better Secure Than Sorry | Tips To Secure An iOS App, 2021
• Mono Repo Vs Multi Repo: Tips To Re-evaluate Codebase Structure, 2021
• Reducing Our Build Time By 50%, 2022
• Demystifying Code Generation On iOS, 2022
• Migrating An Xcode Command Line Tool Project to SPM, 2022

Google

• Espresso: Fresh Start to Android UI Testing, 2013
• Building Scalable Mobile Test Infrastructure for Google+ Mobile, 2013
• Android UI Automation, 2013
• Breaking the Matrix - Android Testing at Scale, 2013
• Make Chrome the best mobile browser, 2014
• Going Green: Cleaning up the Toxic Mobile Environment, 2014
• The Importance of Automated Testing on Real and Virtual Mobile Devices, 2014
• Automated Accessibility Testing for Android Applications, 2015
• Mobile Cross-Platform Integration Testing, 2015
• Integration Testing with Multiple Mobile Devices and Services, 2016
• SRE for Mobile Applications, 2018

Grab

• Deep Dive into iOS Automation at Grab - Integration Testing, 2019
• Marionette - Enabling E2E User-scenario Simulation, 2019
• Journey to a Faster Everyday Superapp Where Every Millisecond Counts, 2019
• Tackling UI Test Execution Time Imbalance for Xcode Parallel Testing, 2020
• How Grab is Blazing Through the Superapp Bazel Migration, 2020
• App Modularisation at Scale, 2021
• How we improved our iOS CI infrastructure with observability tools, 2023

Gravel

• Send gitlab notification to google chat in 3 minutes, 2023
• Manage iOS Versioning for Release with Fastlane, 2023

Halodoc

• Testing strategy, 2021

Helpshift

• Functional Testing of Mobile and Web Apps using Clojure, 2014

Huawei

• Android | Product Flavors and Build Variants, 2020
• Automate Deployment to Huawei AppGallery Connect using Fastlane, 2020
• React Native | Integrating Your Applications With AppGallery Connect, 2021
• Android UI Testing Made Easy: Espresso vs. Barista, 2022
• Robolectric: The Ultimate Testing Framework for Android Developers, 2023
• How to Test the Navigation Component in Jetpack Compose?, 2023
• Unit Test in Jetpack Compose, 2023
• How to Write Unit Tests for ViewModel in Jetpack Compose, 2023
• Huawei Cloud Building Android Project with CodeArts Service, 2024

HubSpot

• Using CocoaPods to Modularize a Big iOS App, 2014
• Update: How We're Building iOS Apps Today, 2017

hh.ru

• Automating the release process, 2022
• Quality assurance for mobile development at hh.ru, 2022

Instabug

• Testing strategy, 2021

Intel

• Automation on Wearable Devices, 2015
• IATF - A New Automated Cross-platform and Multi-device API Test Framework, 2016
• Docker Based Geo Dispersed Test Farm, 2016

Just Eat Takeaway.com

• Optimizing the APK size of Takeaway Driver App with Android App Bundle and WebP, 2019
• iOS — Accessibility identifier for Appium UIAutomation, 2020
• iOS Accessibility, 2021
• Jetpack Compose UI Testing, 2021
• Migrating to Swift Package Manager, 2023
• Backend-Driven UI on Native iOS apps, 2023
• Scalable Continuous Integration for iOS, 2024

Karumi

• Testing strategy, 2021

Kaspersky

• UI Testing Cookbook, 2023
• A step-by-step tutorial in codelab format for Android UI testing, 2023
• How to make Espresso tests more readable and stable, 2023
• How to make automated tests flexible and concise, 2023
• 100% Flakiness-free UI test automation with Kaspresso and Allure Testops, 2023

La Redoute

• Quality at Speed for our Mobile Application, 2020

leboncoin

• Xcode Cloud: Feedback from leboncoin, 2022
• Achieving higher test coverage: Our approach to UI testing on iOS, 2023

LinkedIn

• Writing Custom Lint Checks with Gradle, 2014
• Managing iOS Continuous Integration at Enterprise Scale, 2015
• Mock the Internet, 2015
• Effective Layout Testing Library for iOS, 2016
• UI Automation: Keep it Functional – and Stable!, 2016
• 3x3: Speeding Up Mobile Releases, 2016
• 3x3: iOS Build Speed and Stability, 2016
• Upgrade Testing on iOS: Keeping up with 3x3, 2016
• Open Sourcing Test Butler, 2016
• iOS: Test Pyramid, 2016
• Open Sourcing Dex Test Parser, 2017
• Managing documentation at scale, 2019
• LinkedIn’s approach to automated accessibility (A11y) testing, 2020
• Faster testing on Android with Mobile Test Orchestrator, 2020

Livefront

• 4 tips for using Carthage, 2017
• How to add a dynamic Swift framework to a Command Line Tool, 2018
• Swift expected nil, not , 2018
• Unit Testing race conditions by creating chaos (Swift), 2018
• Adventures in iOS Dev Automation, 2018
• The First 2 Commits Every Android Project Should Have, 2019
• Android Static Code Checks — Keep Your Codebase Tidy With Detekt, 2020
• Dagger Hilt: Testing injected Android components with code coverage, 2020
• How to connect your Android emulator to a local web service, 2021
• Five Reasons To Write Unit Tests, 2021
• Tracking Android project build times, 2023
• XCTestCase Life Cycle Management, 2023

Lyft

• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021
• Building an Enterprise IntelliJ Plugin for Android Developers, 2021
• Mobile Performance @ Lyft, 2021
• Monitoring CPU performance of Lyft’s Android applications, 2022
• Shift-Left iOS Testing with Focus Flows, 2022
• Detecting Android memory leaks in production, 2023

Medium

• How We Modularized Medium’s iOS codebase, 2014
• Medium Android Tools, 2015

Meero

• Kickstarting Mobile Testing: A Journey with Appium and TypeScript, 2023

MEGA

• Enforcing unique identifiers across modules in your Android app using lint, 2023
• Making TDD a Habit in Android Development, 2023 (series of articles)
• Android CI/CD pipelines at MEGA, 2023
• Improving unit test performance in MEGA Android, 2024
• Profiling performance by os_signpost and customized instruments package in MEGA iOS, 2024
• Create your first member macro with TDD in iOS, 2024

Mercadona Tech

• Reduce iOS CI time using test parallelization, 2022
• Contract Tests: A New Hope, 2023
• How to write less code in tests, 2023
• The Night’s Watch: Safeguarding store operations, 2024

Mercari

• Super fast and parallelized Android UITest(Appium) environment using AWS, Docker and Android emulator, 2018
• How HeadSpin will change mobile testing and monitoring?, 2019
• Specifying Kotlin tests with Spek, 2019
• Testing Redux-based iOS app, 2019
• Building automated workflow using Slackbot and CircleCI, 2020
• Compiling for iOS on Apple M1, 2021
• Bazel Remote Execution for iOS Builds with Apple Silicon, 2021
• Automatically generating snapshot tests from Xcode Previews, 2022
• Android automated testing to support one-week releases, 2022
• Leverage Kotlin in your Android CI, 2022
• Fast and reliable iOS builds with Bazel at Mercari, 2023
• Mercari QA and Compose for Android automation, 2023

Monese

• Mobile testing at Monese, 2020

Mozilla

• How Do You Test a Mobile OS?, 2013

Monzo

• How We Build the Monzo App, 2018
• How everyone at Monzo gets involved with testing, 2022
• How our Android engineers automated the removal of Kotlin synthetics, 2022
• Our mobile release process: An illustrated story, 2022

NatWest

• Testing strategy, 2022

Netflix

• Testing Netflix on Android, 2012
• Automated testing on devices, 2016

Nordstrom

• Testing strategy, 2021

NOS

• The struggles of upgrading our Instant enabled app to Android App Bundles, 2020
• A Tour of Xcode Cloud, 2023

Notion

• Notion on Android is now more than twice as fast to launch, 2024

Outlook

• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021

PagerDuty

• Improving PagerDuty’s Automated iOS Builds, 2017

Parimatch Tech

• PMetrium Native - let's measure the performance of native applications, 2022

PayPal

• Write Once, Test Everywhere — Simplified SDK Testing, 2021
• Continuous Shift-Left Automated Testing in Native Mobile Apps, 2023

Picsart

• Supercharge Your Android Remote Debugging Experience with Ngrok, 2022
• Finding Memory Leaks in Mobile Apps (Part 1: Visualization), 2022
• Finding Memory Leaks in Mobile Apps (Part 2: Automation), 2023

Pinterest

• Continuous integration for iOS with Nix and Buildkite, 2017
• iOS linting at Pinterest, 2017
• Developing fast & reliable iOS builds at Pinterest, 2019
• Ad Metrics Quality and Testing on Mobile, 2019
• Pinterest + ktlint = ❤, 2021
• Moving Pinterest’s iOS Builds to Autoscaled EC2 Mac, 2022
• Pre-Submit UI Tests at Pinterest, 2022

Playrix

• CI/CD at Playrix: How we build and test our games, 2019
• How Playrix Uses TeamCity to Run Thousands of Builds per Day, 2023

Practo

• Build distribution automation with Fastlane and Travis CI — iOS, 2017

Primer

• Improving the Android Experience at Primer: Our Journey from Koin to a Custom Dependency Injection Framework, 2023

Qonto

• How slow are your Android builds?, 2021
• Unleashing the power of efficiency: Dramatic reduction in test build times, 2023
• How one line of code led to +50% faster Swift compilation for tens of thousands of teams, 2024

Razorpay

• Releasing features with confidence in your mobile app, 2022

realestate.com.au

• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021

Reddit

• Reddit Recap: State of Mobile Platforms Edition, 2022
• iOS and Bazel at Reddit: A Journey, 2022
• Optimizing the Android CI Pipeline with AffectedModuleDetector, 2022
• Reddit’s E2E UI Automation Framework for Android, 2023
• iOS: UI Testing Strategy and Tooling, 2023
• From Fragile to Agile: Automating the fight against Flaky Tests, 2024

Revolut

• The Fundamentals of iOS at Revolut, 2020
• Best Practices For Unit Testing at Revolut, 2021
• Monitoring performance of screens in your iOS app, 2022
• The Fundamentals of Android at Revolut, 2023

Riot Games

• Revisiting Docker and Jenkins, 2018
• How Riot Games Uses Slack, 2020
• The Legends Of Runeterra CI/CD Pipeline, 2021

Robinhood

• Testing strategy, 2021
• Removing 30% of our iOS crashes, 2022

Shazam

• Keeping 100+ million users happy: how we test Shazam on Android, 2014
• Shazam on iOS: UI testing + Shazam Pro User Tip, 2018
• A Kotlin DSL for Acceptance Tests, 2018
• CI at Shazam: a quest for shipping high-quality code, 2018

Shopify

• Introducing the Super Debugger: A Wireless, Real-Time Debugger for iOS Apps, 2013
• Building a Dynamic Mobile CI System, 2017
• Scaling iOS CI with Anka, 2018
• Mobile Tophatting at Shopify, 2019
• iOS Application Testing strategy at Shopify, 2019
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Test Retries: An Android Monorepo Case Study, 2019
• Mobile Release Engineering at Scale with Shipit Mobile, 2019
• Release process, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021
• Reusing Code with React Native Packages at Shopify, 2021

Showmax

• Automated Memory Leak Testing on iOS, 2019
• Consistent Ruby environment for iOS development, 2019

Skyscanner

• The present and future of app release at Skyscanner, 2016
• 3 Techniques We Used to Improve Skyscanner for iOS Performance, 2016
• Testing React Native iOS Bridges, 2017
• iOS CI, supercharged, 2019
• Hate to wait: how Skyscanner used module caching to cut iOS app build speed in half, 2019

Slack

• Valera Zakharov: Testing, 2017
• Android UI Automation, 2018 (series of articles)
• UI testing is so easy - said no developer ever, 2018
• Mobile performance testing at Slack, 2018

Snap

• Testing strategy, 2021

SoundCloud

• Continuous Integration at SoundCloud, 2015
• Leveraging frameworks to speed up our development on iOS, 2017
• Automatic Stubbing of Network Requests to Deflakify Automation Testing, 2018
• Integration Testing for Memory Leaks, 2018
• Running Android UI Test Suites on Firebase Test Lab, 2018
• Release Quality and Mobile Trains, 2019
• Gradle Remote Build Cache Misses, 2019
• Solving Remote Build Cache Misses by Annoying Your Colleagues, 2019
• Speeding Up Builds with Dagger Reflect, 2020
• The Magic of Generating an Xcode Project, 2020
• Breaking Loose from Third-Party Lock-In with Custom Refactoring Tools, 2020
• Tests Under the Magnifying Lens, 2021

Spotify

• Shaving off 50% waiting time from the iOS Edit-Build-Test cycle, 2013
• Protect Your Baby! How Spotify Does Testing for Mobile, 2015
• Scaling Android Application Testing at Spotify, 2017
• How We Gave Superpowers to Our macOS CI, 2020
• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021
• Introducing XCMetrics: Our All-in-One Tool for Tracking Xcode Build Metrics, 2021
• Introducing XCRemoteCache: The iOS Remote Caching Tool that Cut Our Clean Build Times by 70%, 2021
• Introducing Ruler: Our Tool for Measuring Android App Size, 2022
• Switching Build Systems, Seamlessly, 2023
• The What, Why, and How of Mastering App Size, 2023

Square

• iOS Integration Testing, Part 1, 2011
• iOS Integration Testing, Part 2, 2011
• Better Android Testing with Robolectric 2.0, 2013
• The Resurrection of Testing for Android, 2013
• iOS Build Infrastructure, 2015
• iOS 9 upgrade: Why did my unit tests grind to a halt?, 2016
• XCKnife: faster distributed tests for iOS, 2016
• measureBlock: How Does Performance Testing Work In iOS?, 2018
• Announcing cocoapods-generate, 2018
• Shipping Binary Frameworks With Swift 5.0, 2019
• Instrumenting Firebase Test Lab, 2020
• Kotlin-Multiplatform Shared Test Resources, 2021
• Herding Elephants, 2021
• Getting Square's iOS build ready for Apple Silicon with Bazel, 2022
• Stampeding Elephants, 2023
• Supercharging Continuous Integration with Gradle, 2023

Strava

• Managing Internal iOS Dependencies with Private CocoaPods, 2017
• Optimizing Testing For Server Driven Mobile Development at Strava, 2018
• Release process, 2021

Stream

• Let's test openly, 2022
• How To Test Remote Push Notifications With iOS Simulators, 2023
• Improve Your Android App Performance With Baseline Profiles, 2023
• Optimize App Performance By Mastering Stability in Jetpack Compose, 2024
• Boost Performance by Over 100x Using the Accelerate Framework, 2024

Stitch Fix

• iOS Code Signing, 2015 (series of articles)
• Continuous Integration and Deployment for iOS, 2016

Swiggy

• Advanced techniques to speed up the compile time in Xcode, 2019
• Detecting App Cloning & Location Spoofing on Android, 2021
• Gradle Incremental Test Runner, 2022
• Build Time Optimizations (Xcode), 2022
• Building a robust mobile platform team, 2023
• Optimizing Configuration time for Android apps that use React Native, 2024
• Automating Mobile Event Verification, 2024

Target

• Testing strategy, 2021

Telefónica

• Android Mock API Server, 2024
• Screenshot tests for a Design system with Roborazzi, 2024

The Guardian

• Device wall of awesome: how Lego helped our digital development, 2015

Thoughtworks

• Simplify Your Mobile Testing on iOS and Android, 2014
• Building Better Behavior Tests for Mobile Apps, 2014
• Speeding up Test Execution with Appium, 2016
• Automating semantic versioning model in mobile releases, 2020
• How to release mobile apps weekly, 2022
• Scaling mobile delivery, 2023

Thumbtack

• Adopting Swift: Migrating to Frameworks on iOS, 2016
• Targeted Code Coverage Reports for Android Continuous Builds, 2019
• Using Android Screenshot Tests to Verify View Correctness, 2020
• Automating Integration Tests to Ensure Android App Quality, 2021

Tokopedia

• How We Solve The Sideloading Crash After App Bundle Implementation, 2019
• Release Strategy — a twisted tale in apps, 2019
• Modern Way to Reduce Your Android Apps Size With Dynamic Feature, 2020
• Understanding the aspects of iOS App Launch Time, 2020
• Automating Image Compression Using TinyPng & Git Hooks, 2020
• How Tokopedia Achieved 1000% Faster iOS Build Time, 2020
• Simplify Code Review Process with Auto Mention Code Review Systems, 2020
• Making Developers Life Easier With Jenkins-Slack Integration, 2020
• Monitoring Android Codebase, 2020
• Continuous Integration Google Play Store Internal App Sharing In Tokopedia, 2020
• Saving Tons of Time and Money During Remote Work with Auto Upload APK System, 2021
• Facilitate Your iOS Crash Log Translation For Numerous Builds, 2022
• Getting Started with iOS App Modularization — An Introduction, 2022 (series of articles)
• Stop Wasting Time on Unit Testing: How Tokopedia Achieved 8X Faster Results, 2023

Toptal

• Automated Android Crash Reports with ACRA and Cloudant, 2014
• Android Testing Tutorial: Unit Testing Like a True Green Droid, 2015
• Fastlane: iOS Automation on Cruise Control, 2017
• Android DDMS: A Guide to the Ultimate Android Console, 2017
• How to Write Automated Tests for iOS, 2017
• iOS Continuous Integration with Xcode Server Explained, 2018
• A Splash of EarlGrey: UI Testing the Toptal Talent App, 2020
• Investing in Unit Testing: Benefits and Approaches, 2022
• Unit Testing in Flutter: From Workflow Essentials to Complex Scenarios, 2022

Trendyol

• Get the Most Out of UI Tests With XCode Test Plans, 2020
• How to Test Deeplinks with XCUITest, 2020
• Integrate Slather to Trendyol Project, 2021
• UI Test Roadmap with Kaspresso, 2021
• Trendyol Android Team Unit Test Practice, 2021
• Mobile App Complexity: Things to Consider While Estimating Test Effort, 2021
• The Different Types of Testing on Trendyol iOS App, 2021
• Differences Between Mobile Web and Mobile Platform Tests, 2021
• Mocking API Calls in UI Tests, 2021
• How to Make iOS UI Testing fast and reliable, 2021
• How to Write Unit Tests for Selector Functions in Swift, 2021
• Device Selection for iOS App Testing, 2021
• Meaningful Error Messages for iOS UI Tests, 2021
• Make UI Testing possible with TYGenerator, 2021
• Automated Visual Testing With Snapshots, 2021 (series of articles)
• Modularising Trendyol Android App for Build Efficiency, 2022
• Distribute Unclear Responsibilities in The Team With Automation, 2022
• Sample Apps to Achieve 80% Shorter Build Times in Trendyol Android Project, 2023
• Revamping Trendyol’s iOS App: A Modularization Success Story, 2023
• Mock Generator Development With Using Mockolo Library, 2023
• Trendyol Fulfillment Android Instrumented Test CI, 2023
• Managing iOS Tests at Scale: A Symphony, 2023
• Android Test Doubles In Unit Test, 2023
• Trendyol and Tuist: Engineering Apps at Scale, 2023
• How Do We Manage UI Tests in Sprint, 2023

Triodos Bank

• iOS development and Triodos, 2024
• Elevating UI Tests with Network Mocking, 2024

Turo

• Android UI Testing with Firebase, 2018
• Automatic Android releases using Fastlane, 2018
• Would Xcode Cloud replace our current CI/CD solution?, 2021
• Improving our CI/CD with GitHub Actions, 2022
• How we reduced our Android startup time by 77%, 2023
• Boosting Bazel Adoption on Android With Automation, 2023

Uber

• The Uber Challenge of Cross-Application/Cross-Device Testing, 2015
• Octopus to the Rescue: the Fascinating World of Inter-App Communications at Uber Engineering, 2015
• Using the Octopus Framework, 2016
• Harnessing Code Generation to Increase Reliability & Productivity on iOS at Uber, 2018
• Scaling Mobile Device Management for macOS with Chef at Uber, 2019
• Measuring Kotlin Build Performance at Uber, 2019
• Introducing Uber Poet, an Open Source Mock App Generator for Determining Faster Swift Builds, 2019
• Testing strategy, 2020
• Measuring Performance for iOS Apps at Uber Scale, 2023

UPMC Enterprises

• Running our Android Espresso tests in Parallel, 2023

VoucherCodes

• Creating an automated test framework for React Native apps, 2023

Walmart

• iOS Test Automation @WalmartLabs, 2017
• Flank: Smart Test Runner for Firebase, 2017
• Automated Accessibility testing for Android apps, 2022

Wayfair

• Open Tracing for iOS: A Performance Tool for Everyone, 2019
• Getting The Most Out of XML and Exploring Anko Layouts for Android, 2019

WeTransfer

• Inside WeTransfer’s App Testing Process with Antoine van der Lee, 2019
• Behind the scenes of building high-rated apps with Antoine van der Lee, 2022

Whatnot

• Creating a Lane of Our Own for iOS Automation, 2022
• Migrating iOS GitHub Actions to Self-Hosted M1 Mac Runners, 2023

Wix

• End-to-End TDDing an iOS Application, 2014
• Detox: Graybox End to End Tests and Automation Library for Mobile Apps, 2017
• Detox: Tackling the flakiness of mobile automation, 2019
• Mobile at Scale with React Native, 2019
• Testing Mobile Applications Using Mock Data, 2021
• Mastering Mobile App Testing: Strategies and Challenges in QA, 2023

Wrike

• Performance testing of iOS applications, 2019

XING

• Which hardware are you using to run your CI, 2021
• Testing strategy, 2021

Zetier

• The Art of Android Testing: Wrangling Devices with Lariat, 2024

Zenjob

• WebdriverIO with Appium: Beyond the perfect scenario, 2022
• Android unit testing at Zenjob, 2023

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Credits

• All the authors and the companies they represented in the resources above
• HowTheyTest for the inspiration
• MobileNativeFoundation for the open discussions

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