Mobile Cloud Infrastructure services provide a simple but efficient and optimized testing of mobile apps on multiple devices. Because of their high affordability, scalability and availability, mobile cloud infrastructure is increasingly becoming a popular medium for testing mobile applications. So, when do you shift mobile application testing to the cloud? [...]
Smart phones like iPhone 6, Samsung Galaxy S6, HTC One M9 are awesome but wouldn’t it be cooler if we could swap individual parts such as the camera for a better one if we want to? This blog is an attempt to explain how Google Project Ara could start [...]
Mobile apps saw a 76% YoY growth in 2014. A Nielsen study finds that the average smartphone user has about 42 apps on their device and 87% claim to use nearly 10 apps on daily basis. What these statistics show is that apps rule our world today. Mobile users have [...]
Consumers demand more functionality, faster, better and cheaper ~ Michael Sowers, SQE. Mobile applications have become so much a part of our daily lives that they have replaced PCs as the primary digital touch points. As mobile phones become multi-functional, mobile testing has become more complicated. And with shrinking time-to-market, testers [...]
Mobile app testing is beset by challenges arising out of the huge variations in network, devices and OS, not to mention differences in user skills. Add to this, the need for better video and audio capabilities and hand gesture based applications, it is imperative that a mobile app delivers [...]
Banking is today an omni-channel service. A test strategy for the banking sector needs to cover mobile, internet, cloud or social while keeping compliance requirements in mind. Reliability, scalability and correctness of data are of acute importance as these involve monetary transactions. Below we examine some of the challenges [...]
DevOps – the term has been abuzz in IT circles and is catching on fast! What is DevOps anyway? And how does it help in Mobile testing? In his book What is DevOps?, Mike Loukides has quite a clear cut definition: how modern applications, running in the cloud, still need [...]
The demand for mobile Apps has been steadily increasing. Gartner predicts that by 2017, mobile apps would have been downloaded more than 268bn times, generating a revenue of over $77bn. To keep up with the demands of this ever-growing market, mobile test automation has become a necessity. Mobile test automation [...]
Mobile phones are no longer just meant for communication, they have become a multi-purpose personal gadget with ever increasing appetite for mobile apps. Intense competition in the mobile industry has reduced the time to market forcing companies to roll out new products and apps ahead of their competitors. But [...]
On September 17, 2014 Apple released its most ambitious smartphones with large screen size iPhone 6 (4.7 inch) and iPhone 6 Plus (5.5 inch) in line with consumers’ expectations. Apple also released its latest mobile software system, iOS 8 that was riddled with major bugs initially. However consumers are [...]
