Supported software within custom test environments - AWS Device Farm
Pre-configured software Selectable software

Supported software within custom test environments

Device Farm uses host machines that are pre-installed with many of the necessary software libraries to run test frameworks supported on our service, providing a ready testing environment on launch. Device Farm supports multiple languages through the use of our software selection mechanism, and will periodically update the versions of the languages included in the environment.

For any other required software, you can modify the test spec file to install from your test package, download from the internet, or access private sources within your VPC (see VPC ENI for more information). For more information, see Test spec examples.

Pre-configured software

In order to facilitate device testing on each platform, the following tooling is provided on the test host:

Tools Device Platform(s)

Android SDK Build-Tools

Android

Android SDK Platform-Tools (includes adb)

Android

Xcode

iOS

Selectable software

In addition to the pre-configured software on the host, Device Farm offers a way to select certain versions of supported software via the devicefarm-cli tooling.

The following table contains the selectable software and the test hosts that contain them.

Software / Tool Hosts that support this software Command to use in your test spec

Java 17

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use java 17

Java 11

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use java 11

Java 8

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use java 8

Node.js 20

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use node 20

Node.js 18

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use node 18

Node.js 16

amazon_linux_2

devicefarm-cli use node 16

Python 3.11

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use python 3.11

Python 3.10

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use python 3.10

Python 3.9

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use python 3.9

Python 3.8

amazon_linux_2

devicefarm-cli use python 3.8

Ruby 3.2

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use ruby 3.2

Ruby 2.7

amazon_linux_2

devicefarm-cli use ruby 2.7

Appium 2

amazon_linux_2

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use appium 2

Appium 1

amazon_linux_2

devicefarm-cli use appium 1

Xcode 26

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use xcode 26

Xcode 16

macos_sequoia

devicefarm-cli use xcode 16

The test host also includes commonly used supporting tools for each software version, such as the pip and npm package managers (included with Python and Node.js respectively) and dependencies (such as the Appium UIAutomator2 Driver) for tools like Appium. This ensures you have the tools needed to work with the supported test frameworks.