Firebase Test Lab Fastlane Plugin
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Test your Android Apps in the Firebase Test Lab with Fastlane.
PROBLEMIt all started when we
were forced to migrate the Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous
Deployment (CD) service that we were used to working with. As we were
looking for alternatives, we decided to rethink our approach, give a
step back and learn with this situation to have a better CI / CD
solution for the future.
We knew that we wanted a free
solution, this way we could have a free plan for small projects and
pay as we go. But we also wanted to make sure that if we needed to
migrate our service again in the future, it would be easy. So, we
added another requirement: our solution shouldn’t be totally dependent
on the CI / CD service.SOLUTIONWe
decided to use Fastlane to automate all the needed tasks that run on
the CI / CD service. Not only it solves our requirement by not
depending on the used service, but we could also use it for Android
and iOS Apps. Furthermore, it’s an open source platform, which is also
a plus.
To run the Android instrumentation tests we
decided to use the Firebase Test Lab service and that’s when this
plugin came aboard. Since Fastlane didn’t have a specific action to do
it, we created a plugin to meet our needs and open sourced it.
The
plugin runs the Google Cloud Client under the wood and provides a very
clean and simple way to configure and run the Android instrumentation
tests in a wide variety of devices provided by the Firebase Test Lab.
TECH STACKRuby, FastlaneCheck it out in the GitHub
