LinkedIn’s Bluepill allows developers to run iOS UI tests using multiple simulators on a single machine, writes LinkedIn software engineer Keqiu Hu, and aims to provide tool stability and test scalability.
Bluepill is an integral part of LinkedIn 3×3 philosophy –setting a goal of three releases a day “with no more than three hours between when code is committed and when that code is available to members”– to which it brings the two highly desirable properties :
Bluepill addresses both platform stability and scalability by relying on Apple’s private framework CoreSimulator , which allows to create device simulators of different types, choose runtime versions, handle notifications from the simulator, etc.
