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Xamarin Announces Mobile Cloud Testing Service http://adtmag.com/articles/2013/04/17/mobile-cloud-testing-service.aspx Xamarin Inc. announced this week a new product called Xamarin Test Cloud at its first Evolve Conference in Austin, Texas. Xamarin Test Cloud is an automated, cross-platform UI testing service that gives mobile developers access to hundreds of mobile devices, which are hosted in the cloud by Xamarin. Also announced at the conference was Xamarin's acquisition of LessPainful, the company that created the Calabash mobile UI testing automation framework upon which Xamarin Test Cloud is based. <snip> Developers upload their mobile app to the Xamarin Test Cloud service directly from Visual Studio, Xamarin Studio or one of the supported continuous integration (CI) systems (supported systems include Team Foundation Server [TFS], TeamCity and Jenkins). Once the app is uploaded, the developer is presented with a dropdown list of devices and can select those on which he wishes to run tests. Then the Xamarin Test Cloud App Explorer "systematically exercises every screen and control in your app without you having to write a single test," according to Xamarin's product information slides. <more> _____ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia