Test automation is an indispensable part of any software development process, including mobile app development. Trying to run all your tests manually simply takes up far too much time, time that could be better spent on improving your code, or, well, a bunch of other things that are far more useful than running unit tests one by one. Of course, 100% automation is impossible: you simply cannot eliminate all the tedium from testing. Sorry.
The Need for CI in Testing
Automating as much as humanly possible makes developers' lives a lot easier. As such, continuous integration services must provide the tools that allow users to run automated tests with a minimum of fuss and then analyze the test results afterwards. Let’s look into one of those services that can do all that: Bitrise.