Mobile Cloud Testing Services use jailbroken and rooted devices

In my last blog post I wrote about a new Cloud Testing Service for Android and mobile web apps. A few hours after writing this post, I found this very interesting blogpost about mobile cloud testing services and the use of jailbroken and rooted devices. Please read this post and think about it, if you consider to use such services!


Why are mobile cloud test solutions using Jailbroken and Rooted devices?

The main reason that mobile cloud test solutions Jailbreak (and rooting it for Android)  their devices is their need to gain full control over the phone so they can delete data that one customer inserted to the phone while running his tests, before a different customer starts running his tests on the device.

Find the complete post here: http://www.mobileappstesting.com/2012/06/08/mobile-cloud-testing-solutions-use-of-jailbreak-and-rooted-devices-analysis-implications/