Achieve mobile testing greatness with Cloud Grey

Founded by Appium architect Jonathan Lipps, no one in the world is better equipped to meet your automation challenges. In the quest for the holy grail of rapidly shipping flawless mobile experiences, Cloud Grey is your Excalibur.

What our clients have said

Jason Arbon
CEO, test.ai

I've worked on large and complex automation projects at Google and Microsoft for over 20 years, but working with Cloud Grey would have saved me 3 months of engineering and time this past summer and Jonathan's ongoing advice will save us even more moving forward.

Brien Colwell
CTO, HeadSpin

Working with Jonathan has been invaluable for interfacing with the Appium maintainers. Because of the recent improvements to speed and reliability, Appium should now be the default choice for software teams - enterprise, consumer, gaming, etc... Because our communication channel to the Appium team is smooth, we can translate issues to solutions quickly and help our customers with CI/CD, monitoring, performance data, and user experience data.

Lubos Parobek
VP Product, Sauce Labs

Sauce Labs has benefited greatly from our relationship with Cloud Grey. Jonathan Lipps's insights in the world of mobile automation and his strategic recommendations for our products are very helpful.

Adam Carmi
CTO, Applitools

Applitools has taken full advantage of Cloud Grey's Appium expertise in helping to deliver new experiences in mobile visual testing to our customers.

Our Services

We are the world's premier Appium consultancy, offering everything from high-level automation strategy to the nitty gritty of building out your custom test framework or mobile CI pipeline. Services include:

Appium Training
From basic to advanced, large or small groups. Tailored to fit your experience level and needs. Instruction in any programming language. Standard workshops also available to attend.
Appium Evaluations
Since we have worked hard over the years to define Appium best practices, we can tell you how you're doing in the areas of testsuite architecture, test robustness, and more.
Testsuite Architecture
Just getting started with mobile automation? We can advise on the best way to set up your test framework in the language of your choice, or implement it ourselves.
Mobile Automation Strategy
Just want a day of strategic advice and conversation? We can help you save months of wasted effort pursuing a suboptimal plan.
Speaking at Corporate Events
We are expert communicators and can deliver inspiring and informative messages on Appium, mobile automation, or a host of other topics.
Everything Else
Don't see what you're looking for? If it's related to mobile automation or Appium, we can do it.

Interested to chat about what we can offer you? Contact us and we'll be in touch soon.

Projects

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Appium Pro Workshops

Register to attend one of our world-class training workshops, offered at a variety of levels in a variety of locations around the globe. Get hands-on, small-group training from Appium project lead Jonathan Lipps.

Appium Leadership

Cloud Grey contributes directly to the Appium codebase and participates at the level of project and community leadership. You should consider contributing to Appium too! Get started at Appium's GitHub page.

LinkedIn Learning Courses

Jonathan Lipps has released two Appium e-learning courses via LinkedIn Learning:

Mobile Testing With Appium. This course assumes no knowledge other than basic programming skills and takes you through everything you need to know to get up and running with Appium for mobile testing.
Advanced Appium. This course helps you take your Appium skills to the next level, focusing on more advanced techniques and testing modalities.

Test Automation University Courses

Jonathan Lipps has released a unique advanced Appium e-learning course via Test Automation University, entitled Automated Visual Testing With Appium. It walks learners through the concepts that underlie image-based and visual testing, and shows how to achieve useful results with these modes of testing using both open source and proprietary technologies.

Open Test Data

Cloud Grey has partnered with Test.ai to develop Open Test Data, a one-of-its-kind repository of reusable test data, from the most granular level to the level of datasets used for entire testcases.

JS Foundation

Cloud Grey contributes financially to the JS Foundation, the non-profit foundation that stewards Appium and a host of other JS-based open source projfects. Jonathan Lipps sits on the Technical Advisory Committee for the foundation and helps to mentor other open source projects to sustainability.

Who We Are

We know more about leveraging Appium for mobile testing than anyone else. That's because we've spent more time in Appium's codebase than anyone else. We're a group of mobile automation experts who will help you get started or get finished with your mobile app testing or CI.

The People of Cloud Grey

Jonathan Lipps
Principal

Jonathan has been making things out of code as long as he can remember. Jonathan is the architect and project lead for Appium. Before founding Cloud Grey, he was Director of Open Source at Sauce Labs. He has worked as a programmer in tech startups for over 15 years, but is also passionate about academic discussion.

Jonathan has master's degrees in philosophy and linguistics, from Stanford and Oxford respectively. Living in Vancouver, he's an avid rock climber, yogi, musician, and writer on topics he considers vital, like the relationship of technology to what it means to be human. You can visit his personal site at jlipps.com.

In the news or at the podium

Easy Parallel Visual Testing with Appium - A webinar co-produced with Applitools and Genymotion on how to speed up your visual testing.
Appium: The Next Generation - Jonathan Lipps's 2019 AppiumConf keynote discussing where Appium is headed, including a fascinating demonstration of Appium automating an IoT device.
All Desired Capabilities - Jonah Stiennon's 2019 AppiumConf session, where he introduces every desired capability currently supported by Appium!
Common Automation Pitfalls and Solutions - A webinar panel I participated in, with Raj Subramanian and Philip Lew, where we dig into some of the most problematic practices we've seen, and how to fix them.
33 Test Automation Leaders to Follow in 2019 - Jonathan Lipps was included in this list of test automation practitioners from Joe Colantonio.
Making Your Appium Tests Reliable, Repeatable, and Fast - A webinar on how to coax good performance and stability out of your tests.
Advanced Appium Tips & Tricks - A webinar featuring some interesting Appium features and strategies.
The Shifting Landscape of Mobile Automation - A webinar designed to explore today's options when it comes to mobile automation.
Appium: The Next Five Years - Jonathan's keynote at AppiumConf 2018 in London, featuring a surprise musical performance.
To InfinityDriver and Beyond - Jonathan appears on Joe Colantonio's Test Talks podcast and chats about all things Appium, general and specific.
What is technology; do we even know? Jonathan was a guest on this StackOverflow Podcast, where he discussed open source community health, the philosophy of technology, and music. He even played a bit of live music for the show.
The Philosophy and Future of Automation - Jonathan's keynote address to SauceCon 2017, full of deep questions about just what it is that we're doing with automation anyway.
StarDriver Enterprise: App to the Future - Jonathan's entertaining and 80s-pop-culture-reference-filled talk delivered at the 2016 SeleniumConf in London.

Behind the name

Automation is a practice which, like the color grey, is full of nuance and precision. There are often no strictly correct or easy answers. Expert advice is often essential in picking the right tools, especially when it comes to the assortment of cloud providers. Cloud Grey brings this nuance and this experience with cutting-edge industry technology to bear on our clients' problems. Also, Cloud Grey's founder is from Vancouver, Canada, which can be a wonderfully cloudy and grey place much of the time!

To get in touch with Jonathan Lipps, connect on LinkedIn.