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It would do them well to look into connecting their stuff into Selenium Grid like saucelabs.com. I'm currently using appdriver[1] for android and appium[2] for iOS. Both communicate with SeleniumGrid which I find nice for parallel testing and the ability to use any modern computer language since Selenium's API is generally well supported across languages.

1.https://github.com/nicegraham/appdriver

2.https://github.com/appium/appium

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+1 on appium support (disclaimer: I'm an appium contributor). Shouldn't be too hard for them to add since it supports real devices. Opens up the door to Selenium library support and compatibility, which would be a huge win IMO.

Why would they do that when the build a C# toolset for developing cross platform apps?

This is meant to expand the ability of MS developers to build cross platform apps. See it in that light and C# makes sense.

Oh. Hmm... well, the selenium framework is still very good. I still recommend they support it. But if their target costumers are only Microsoft stack devs then.... I have no comment.

I didn't mean it negatively, but their primary tool is a C# cross platform app builder which compiles to native code. They are a C# shop and are building products (including this new service they just bought) that make sense for their primary users. C# developers (theoretically also Linux devs running Mono).

Oh wow, I didn't know about Mono on linux. Very interesting! http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page

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