# How Hydra Lab Empowers Microsoft Mobile Testing

DevFeed: [How Hydra Lab Empowers Microsoft Mobile Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/how-hydra-lab-empowers-microsoft-mobile-testing-22781.md>)

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Author: TechHome

Published: 2023-07-26T04:12:12Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Android@Microsoft - Medium](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/android-microsoft-medium.md>)

Topics: [Mobile Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mobile-testing.md>), [Testing](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/testing.md>), [API](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/api.md>), [DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/devops.md>), [Azure DevOps](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/azure-devops.md>), [Microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/microsoft.md>), [Open Source](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/open-source.md>)

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## AI overview

The article describes Hydra Lab, an open-source framework for building a private, self-managed mobile test cloud with a REST API and DevOps integration. It explains the framework's focus on control, customization, cost, device sharing, test automation, and test intelligence, and describes its use in Microsoft mobile-product testing through Azure DevOps pipelines.

## Source excerpt

How Hydra Lab Empowers Microsoft Mobile Testing and Test Intelligence Hydra Lab: Intelligent Cloud Testing Made Easy -- microsoft/HydraLab (github.com) What is Hydra Lab? The following video could give you an overview of Hydra Lab on its functionality status and mission. https://medium.com/media/34f0f3cb9ff8eafe8b4c2c90e5d5fa30/href In other words, with Hydra Lab, you can build a private test cloud on your own which provides RESTful API service and support for DevOps system integration. In other words, it's like you can have a private self-manageable "Firebase Test Lab". Why we need Hydra Lab We open-sourced Hydra Lab under github.com/microsoft in 2022 Dec, and its open-source nature ensures better control and customization, removing the following concerns when it comes to the integration of cloud testing platform: [Credibility]: Is it okay to upload your debug app package to a 3rd party platform? Could we trust them? Is there a compliance requirement for using it? [Customization]: Does the 3rd party platform have the compatible real devices to run my test? Is cross-platform scenario supported? [Cost]: Is the pricing of those platforms affordable? [Community]: Could we plug in our devices to the cloud and share them across geos & teams? Hydra Lab is a free, customizable, credible framework built on top of Appium, Espresso, Maestro, XCTest, etc. It has been geared with test integration glue code and scalable designs and test lifecycle definition for further support of new runners and test intelligence. The Hydra Lab team put consistent effort in contributing to the mission of "Intelligent Cloud Testing Made Easy" and designing "Your Intelligent Test Cloud", we have built standardized CI and CD procedures in Azure DevOps with UT and API+E2E acceptance testing as quality gatekeepers and have shipped 27 stable releases so far. How Hydra Lab powers testing in Microsoft After integrating Hydra Lab into our procedures over the past two years, our in-house service now stream