Rethinking Mobile QA with Autonomous Testing — feat. Royi Haddad (21)

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A mobile QA startup founder on making Appium-free, visual, low-maintenance test automation accessible. Royi Haddad, co-founder of 21Labs, describes pivoting from a fully autonomous crawler to a visual, drag-and-drop mobile QA platform after learning customers want to validate their own specific scenarios. He explains how 21 abstracts away Appium, device farms, signing certificates and DOM complexity so anyone can create and run cloud tests in minutes, with live streaming feedback and automatic test maintenance across app changes. He and Jonathon discuss enriching QA with production data to focus on flows that matter, the impossibility and diminishing returns of testing every personalization permutation, and bridging the gap so developers get functional-UI feedback like unit tests. The theme throughout is value-driven, fast time-to-value testing. **In this episode:** - Mobile Testing - Te