Firebase Robo Tests on a local device

[Paul Sliwinski]

Hi guys,

I'm a software tester that tests an app on both iOS and Android. Recently, I've been using Firebase robo tests to test our Android app in its demo mode. This is a nice start for finding problems with our app's code, but in our demo mode the app only has simulated data to use, simulating data it would receive when connected to our server component. From the devices in Google's lab, I don't think I'll have any way to connect to one of our servers, so I want to run automated UI tests from our own local devices in or lab. I know there are many different ways to write and run automated tests, but I like the continuous test the robo test runs, where it'll crawl through any options available to it. Is it possible to run Firebase Robo tests from my own devices, or is there any way I can recreate this kind of test? As I'm not a dev myself, I have only limited knowledge in Android development, but have enough programming experience to learn basics fairly quickly or learn to write scripts needed. Any advice or good places to start would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Paul Sliwinski

[Doug Stevenson]

There is currently no way to run a Robo test on your local device, but that is something the Test Lab team is looking into providing.

Doug

[Paul Davis]

On Thursday, March 21, 2019 at 7:28:14 AM UTC-7, Paul Sliwinski wrote:

 From the devices in Google's lab, I don't think I'll have any way to connect to one of our servers

Hi, many customers' automated tests running in Firebase Test Lab do connect to their own backend servers. The Test Lab devices generally have full access to the Internet, and we publish the ranges of IP addresses we use so that you can configure a firewall to allow traffic from our FTL data centers.  This article has more info about IP addresses used.