Android开发加速和自动化解决方案

1、Electric Cloud for AndroidElectric Cloud for Android helps global device makers reduce the time to market of their Android products, and increase competitiveness, quality, and customer satisfaction.The Android market is growing rapidlyToday, Android is the hot operating system for mobile devices. Be

2、 they the smart phone in your pocket or the tablet or eReader in your bag, theproliferation of these devices seems to be increasing at an exponential rate. As the device markets become more competitive, leadership is being defined as delivering the latest Android devices (tablets, mobile phones, net

3、book, ebook reader, etc. with the most advanced features. However, device makers are finding challenges in developing new devices for Android in a predictable, high-quality fashion.Facing Android device makers challengesThe Android code base from Google can be built very quickly because the code bas

4、e is well optimized. However, many device makers experience long, unreliable Android build and test cycles after they add their custom modules and third-party components onto the Google Android code base.Typical challenges faced when custom modules or third-party components are added to the Google A

5、ndroid code base include: Unreliable, long build processes involving many retries to get one clean buildTime consuming builds due to increased complexity in dependencies“Android to have 40% smart phone market share by end of 2011” IDC“Android to hold 39% by end of 2011 and 50% of themarket by 2012”

6、Gartner“Mobile apps downloads to grow from 11 billion tin 2010 to 80 billion by 2014” IDC“By 2015 the smartphone market will be worth over $220 billion, of which 48%will be Android” GartnerDATASHEET: ELECTRIC CLOUD FOR ANDROID Due to device and version proliferation (mobile phone, table, netbook, po

7、rtable media player, internet TV, etc.each with its own ifecycle, a device maker must execute different Android flavor builds and versions (Cupcake,Donut, Éclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, Honeycomb, IceCream Sandwich Android Compatibility Test Suites (CTS, that contain about 14,000 test cases and ta

8、ke more than seven hours to complete, must be executed against many differentproducts builds, and often time break in the middle oftest execution Test failures consume a lot of time to investigate the causes and each test requires a manual restart Googles update frequency(quarterly exacerbates the a

9、bove challenges.Due to these challenges, before adopting Electric Cloud for Android, one of our customers used to spend more thanfive days to complete one build and test cycle. At this rate, Agile methodology could not be executed. Adding resources, hardware or engineers, had not improve the situati

10、on atall. As a result, given competitive market pressure, prior to adopting our Solution, had to compromise by reducing the number of test suites and releasing the product without enough number of iteration to minimize the defects. At the end, the customer satisfaction rating on their products is lo

11、w due to poor performance and capability defects.Electric Cloud for AndroidElectric Cloud for Android is a packaged solution consisting of ElectricAccelerator, ElectricInsight, ElectricCommander, and 20 days of professional services. In the 20 days of professional services, our consultant will guide

12、 your teamto deploy Electric Cloud for Android into your build and test environment.ElectricAccelerator speeds the different flavored builds of the Android code base with the custom components and third-party tools. It enables the intelligent use of cloud resources by accurately executing parallel b

13、uilds across scalable clusters of standard hardware to reduce build times. To do this, ElectricAccelerator leverages patented technology that identifies and monitors job dependencies insuring fast and accurate builds. It plugs seamlessly into existing your build infrastructure, without modifying exi

14、sting build scripts and tools to distribute the work of the build across a cluster of servers.ElectricInsight visually depicts the structure of the Android software build, down to the file level, empowering build managers to pinpoint bottlenecks and conflicts within a build. An add-on to ElectricAcc

15、elerator, ElectricInsight mines the information produced by ElectricAccelerator to provide an easy-to-understand, graphical representation of the build structure for performance analysis.ElectricCommander orchestrates the complex Android build and test cycle and eliminates the error-prone manual tas

16、ks. By automating the tasks, many reliability issues are removed through customized failure analysis and automatic recovery tasks. Additionally, ElectricCommander accelerates the Android build-test-deploy process through the use of smart cloud infrastructure.With ElectricCommander, Android device ma

17、kers gain: Android build-test-deploy workflow automation Faster cycle time and more efficient use of ITinfrastructure (physical, virtual, or public/private cloud Management of all Android software artifacts of the application development process Visibility and reporting for better project predictabi

18、lity and fewer process errors A shared platform for disseminating best practices and standardizing common procedures Security and scalability to support geographically distributed teamsDATASHEET: ELECTRIC CLOUD FOR ANDROIDCustomer BenefitsElectric Cloud Android Solution provides out-of-the-box Andro

19、id build-test-deploy workflows that can parallelize multiple Android- flavors development lifecycle on a smart cloud environment. It automates the provisioning and optimizing of IT infrastructure. Additionally, it provides acceleration of Android software build through the use of smart cloud computi

20、ng and insight to Android software build anatomy for further optimization. DATASHEET: ELECTRIC CLOUD FOR ANDROIDDATASHEET: ELECTRIC CLOUD FOR ANDROIDConclusionThe challenges faced by Android device makers are eliminated by Electric Cloud for Android. Our customers are able to execute reliable Agile

21、development process on their Android products, reduce their time to market and increase market competitiveness, increase quality and customer satisfaction.Before Electric Cloud After Electric Cloud About Electric CloudElectric Cloud delivers solutions that automate and accelerate the application development and delivery process. The companys award-winning products help development organizations to speed time to market, boost developer produ