Tested Configurations for Parallel Test Execution

With Silk4J, you can run automated tests on multiple Android devices in parallel. The amount of Android devices that you are able to use in parallel depends on the available hardware. Micro Focus has successfully tested the following hardware configurations:

Configuration with a single test machine

Using a single test machine directly connected to the Android devices through USB, we tested up to 8 physical Android devices in parallel.

The test machine was a Lenovo ThinkPad T450 with the following hardware specifications:

Intel® Core™ i7 - 5600U CPU @ 2.60 GHz
2 cores (4 threads)
8 GB RAM

Configuration with two test machines

Here we are using two test machines, one with Silk4J installed and another, which is configured as a remote location for the first machine and has the Silk Test Information Service installed. Using such a configuration, we tested up to 10 physical Android devices in parallel.

Test machine 1 was a Lenovo ThinkPad T450 with the following hardware specifications:

Intel® Core™ i7 - 5600U CPU @ 2.60 GHz
2 cores (4 threads)
8 GB RAM

Test machine 2 was a Dell Precision T1700 with the following hardware specifications:

Intel® Core™ i7 - 4770 CPU @ 3.40 GHz
4 cores (8 threads)
16 GB RAM

Configuration with a Windows machine and a Mac

Here we are using two test machines, a Windows machine with Silk4J installed and a Mac, which is configured as a remote location for the first machine and has the Silk Test Information Service installed. Using such a configuration, we tested up to 10 physical Android devices in parallel.

Test machine 1 was a Lenovo ThinkPad T450 with the following hardware specifications:

Intel® Core™ i7 - 5600U CPU @ 2.60 GHz
2 cores (4 threads)
8 GB RAM

Test machine 2 was an Apple Mac Mini with the following hardware specifications:

Intel® Core™ i5 - 4782U CPU @ 2.60 GHz
2 cores (4 threads)
16 GB RAM