Improving Dubsmash by making QA a first-class citizen

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fastlane

UI and integration tests are usually cumbersome to maintain & slower to run, we’ve had to iterate on our setup frequently until we found a working solution that has been stable enough for us to trust. While Firebase Test Lab & Fastlane were tremendously helpful tools in automating our testing efforts, setting up a robust pipeline that would yield trustworthy, repeatable results required us to take a couple of additional factors into consideration:.

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AWS Device Farm

While we initially evaluated both AWS Device Farm as well as Firebase Test Lab, we ultimately settled on Firebase. At the time, AWS was not providing any built-in support for sharding & parallelizing tests. Firebase also provided better out-of-the-box integration with our existing tooling, most notable Fastlane. Running our tests on AWS Device Farm would have been possible but would have required more customizations on our end.

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