I set up an OpenSmartphoneTestFarm (openSTF) instance at the office so people working from home could fully control smartphones inside the office to debug wifi issues. Because some countries had lockdowns at different times, so it could be that production users could work in the office but some of our support people couldn't. This way they could still test things inside the actual office. And we didn't have to supply our support people with tons of testing phones. Only issue was that it never supported iOS but we use mainly Android anyway for corporate phones, because dual-use (work/private) is a lot better on android. Only in the US they demanded to have iPhones and we outsource the support there.
But they dropped support on it and moved to another product (device farmer) which never seems to have materialised at all. I don't know what happened to it but we just kept running openstf until the end of the pandemic. It worked fine anyway. But it's too bad it seems to be completely gone as it was actually a great piece of software. A bit overly complex to set up with tons of different docker containers for each part of the service, it was clearly meant for huge distributed installs, which we didn't really need.
I set up an OpenSmartphoneTestFarm (openSTF) instance at the office so people working from home could fully control smartphones inside the office to debug wifi issues. Because some countries had lockdowns at different times, so it could be that production users could work in the office but some of our support people couldn't. This way they could still test things inside the actual office. And we didn't have to supply our support people with tons of testing phones. Only issue was that it never supported iOS but we use mainly Android anyway for corporate phones, because dual-use (work/private) is a lot better on android. Only in the US they demanded to have iPhones and we outsource the support there.
It worked pretty well actually. https://openstf.io/
But they dropped support on it and moved to another product (device farmer) which never seems to have materialised at all. I don't know what happened to it but we just kept running openstf until the end of the pandemic. It worked fine anyway. But it's too bad it seems to be completely gone as it was actually a great piece of software. A bit overly complex to set up with tons of different docker containers for each part of the service, it was clearly meant for huge distributed installs, which we didn't really need.