Hello there again! In my previous article I talked about how you can get an IPA or APK file from Fabric and install it onto your device for later use in testing. This time I want to tell how one can make sure that multiple versions of the test application are installed onto the same device.

How can you use it?

For example, while updating an app you need to check how the application works if the data is sent to the server from the older app version and opened in the new one and vice versa. You may also need to reproduce a number of bugs on a specific device and check that the new version of the app has them fixed. Of course, for each and every test you can either install and then remove a build or install each version of the application on a separate device. However, in order to save time and reduce the number of test devices, you can go the other way and install several builds of the application simultaneously.

Android platform offers a wide range of programs allowing you to clone the installed apps, so they can easily be used to solve the problem mentioned.