GameDriver and Kobiton team up to improve automated mobile game testing

September 21, 2023 - Game Driver Inc., a provider of automated testing solutions for gaming and XR experiences, andKobitoncompanya provider of mobile testing solutions, today announced a strategic partnership aimed at raising the bar for game testing and quality assurance in the gaming industry.

By working together, Kobiton and GameDriver aim to address the unique challenges faced by game developers and quality assurance professionals in ensuring five-star game quality. The partnership will provide a unified solution that enables mobile developers using game engines such as Unity and Unreal Engine to easily test their apps and games through the use of GameDriver's automated testing solutions.

GameDriver notes that developers of mobile game studios and XR apps and experiences face many challenges when building and testing across multiple mobile platforms, such as iOS and Android, and multiple form factors supported, such as cell phones and tablets. Ensuring consistent user experience, functionality and performance across mobile games and XR experiences is critical for mobile games and XR experiences, according to the company, and requires a testing strategy that encompasses a potentially large and dispersed number of supported devices.The Kobiton platform allows producers of mobile games and experiences to quickly leverage public or private cloud devices and easily scale testing.

By combining GameDriver's automated game testing technology with Kobiton's mobile testing platform, developers can now optimize their game development and quality assurance processes across different game platforms. By enabling quality assurance teams to efficiently run automated tests across a wide range of devices, operating systems and network conditions, this new partnership will help to significantly speed up the game testing process, reduce time-to-market and enhance the overall player experience.

The partnership will also extend the domain and expertise of both companies, providing value-added capabilities through their respective sales, support and implementation organizations.

Our partnership with Kobiton introduces unprecedented scale to mobile testing capabilities for game and immersive experience builds using game engines," said Robert Gutierrez, co-founder and CEO of GameDriver. gameDriver does for game engines what Selenium WebDriver does for web and mobile apps, by allowing for fast. consistent and scalable automated testing across different engines and platforms, consistent and scalable automated testing for game engines does for web and mobile apps what Selenium WebDriver does for web and mobile apps.Kobiton provides this scale, as well as the insights provided by a fully integrated mobile development and testing platform."

Additionally, Kobiton is the first SaaS provider to join the GameDriver partner ecosystem and has released integrations in its mobile development and testing platform that enable users to easily upload and execute GameDriver tests - a first for the gaming and XR development market, which, according to GameDriver, will be be made generally available in Q3 2023.

Frank Moyer, CTO of Kobiton, added, "This partnership marks a new era in game testing. By combining GameDriver's automation with Kobiton's extensive device coverage, we are setting a gold standard for mobile game quality assurance.

To kick off the partnership, GameDriver and Kobiton are hosting a joint webinar on September 28, 2023 to demonstrate the value of their combined capabilities. Both companies are also offering free trials for developers and quality assurance teams with immediate access.

For more information about GameDriver and its automated testing solutions for gaming and XR experiences, please click onhere. To learn more about Kobiton and its mobile testing solutions, click on thehere.

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