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Evaluating Mobile User Experience

Friday July 27th 2012 12am Rated 7 9 Comments Mobile User Quality Assurance
User Experience (UX), a term that first appeared a decade ago, still has no formal definition or standard. So its not surprising that as mobile applications inundate the app stores, mobile user experience is starting to garner serious attention because some app developers are wondering why their app is not getting much uptake while others who may have less features for more money are.

Best Practices for Load Testing Mobile Applications

Friday November 2nd 2012 7am Rated 8 3 Comments Load Testing Mobile
Mobile applications and mobile websites have become a major channel for conducting business, improving employee efficiency, communicating, and reaching consumers. In the past, mobile played a smaller role in business applications, so performance issues and outages were less of a concern. This is no longer the case. Today, performance problems with mobile applications lead directly to revenue loss, brand damage, and diminished employee productivity.
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You Want to Launch When? Mobile App Testing Tips for Startups

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 7 3 Comments Mobile Testing Automation Functional Strategy User Web
The purpose of this article is to provide some essential tips and examples of how the world ’s most promising companies test their mobile apps .
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Configuration Testing on Mobile Devices

Friday April 12th 12am Rated 5 3 Comments Testing Mobile
Mobile software applications are becoming more prevalent in our daily lives A recent study published by Andrea Smith on Mashable highlighted just how much we as a society are addicted to our mobile applications, going so far as to say “Some people confess to using over 50 apps a day.” We see them everywhere, waiting in line, walking down the street, or even attending a sporting event. In fact, 82% of the respondents, people believed they couldn’t be without their mobile applications for longer than one day and if this sample reflected society, then these mobile applications need to work correctly, consistently as well as meet user needs.

Extending Test Automation to Mobile Applications

Thursday May 19th 2011 12am Rated 1 2 Comments Mobile Automation Performance Testing Functional Trends Research
Mobile applications have revolutionized how people conduct business. However, as with any emerging technology, a number of unique challenges can arise when developing and implementing mobile applications.
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Testing International Websites

Tuesday December 7th 2010 10am Rated 3 1 Comment Test and QA Testing Mobile Performance Functional Software Strategy Web
International websites – sites that support a multitude of languages and have a user audience that spans numerous countries and continents – introduce unique testing challenges. Based on different projects for different clients, I’ve needed to strategically plan testing for websites and mobile usage where the user base was large and spanned across the globe. Below are some sample challenges to consider and ways to address those challenges.
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Test Virtualization: The Next Iteration

Thursday February 23rd 2012 8am Rated 2 1 Comment Software Test Professionals Conference Mobile
When it comes to the software world, testing is like outer space; it’s vast and traps objects in black holes if course of direction is not set properly. As testing has come to the fore front, so has its strategic direction. The test tools and processes of choice has a definite economic impact when it comes to testing and identifying defects at various phases of the software development life cycle (SDLC). Probably one of the most significant impacts comes from the cost of identifying and fixing defects, especially during testing and implementation phases of a project.

More on TWiST #30 -- and just plain more

Monday January 31st 2011 8am Rated 2 1 Comment Software Test and QA Testing Agile Mobile
Matt elaborates on his discussion in TWiST #30 and provides a few new links at the and

TWiST #24 - with Liz Marley

Friday December 17th 2010 10am Rated 2 1 Comment Load Software Testing Mobile
Matt Heusser gets serious about mobile testing by interviewing Liz Marley for this week in Software Testing #24.
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The Apps Economy – Mobile Matters More Than Ever

Friday October 19th 2012 12am Rated 1 1 Comment Test and QA Mobile
The explosion of the mobile apps economy is pretty obvious to just about everyone. Smartphones are rapidly becoming a primary method of interaction for consumers and businesses worldwide – and tablets aren’t far behind. In fact, both are growing exponentially faster than installed base of desktops and laptops. The explosion of mobile – and thus, apps – can be observed in nearly every industry (especially retail, media, education and financial services with their large, diverse user bases).

Mobile Testing: Same Amusement Park Different Ride

Friday June 29th 2012 12am Rated 1 1 Comment Mobile Testing
I recently attended the STP Online Summit: Insights on Deploying a Mobile Testing Strategy and during the panel discussion it was very evident that history is definitely repeating itself. I am no mobile testing expert but there are many common themes I heard from the discussion that were prevalent for testing professionals when we evolved from paper to mainframe to PC to client server and to the web; hence the title of this article.

Eclipse for Testers

Thursday July 14th 2011 1pm Rated 7 0 Comments Technology Software Agile Performance Services Development Functional Integration Open Source Process Testing Unit Mobile Web Tools
Eclipse has been one of the best IDEs for unit testing ever since its early days. Not too great a surprise, as until a few months ago, JUnit co-founder Erich Gamma was also lead engineer for Eclipse Java Development Tools and related IBM products like Rational Jazz. From Version 3.2 on, JUnit was directly built into Eclipse after a separate plug-in has already been available.

Jasmine, BDD for JavaScript

Tuesday June 21st 2011 9am Rated 6 0 Comments Test and QA How To Agile Automation Services Development Integration Open Source Process Testing Unit User Mobile Web
A few months ago, a meeting of Vienna JavaScript User Group (Vienna.js) introduced me to Jasmine, a Behavior Driven Development Testing Framework for JavaScript.
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The Mobile App Revolution: Testing IT Teams and their Leaders to Adapt "In the Wild"

Monday August 9th 2010 3am Rated 6 0 Comments Development Testing Teams Mobile Software Strategy Web
In 2010 $6.2 billion dollars will be spent by consumers at mobile app stores. Mobile app stores expect to exceed 4.5 billion downloads, and projections for mobile app sales in 2013 are expected to reach $21.6 billion dollars. Looking at these numbers it is no wonder that business executives are wondering why their development teams aren’t churning out new mobile apps to the marketplace at a feverish pace.
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The Most Disruptive Tech Trends Altering the Testing Landscape

Tuesday March 1st 2011 8am Rated 4 0 Comments Testing Performance Conference Presentations Software Trends Software Test Professionals Conference Research Mobile
The consumerization of enterprise software applications is no longer on its way – it is here. And this movement is empowering a new and increasingly mobile workforce to turn data into information, and information into action – anytime, anywhere, for anyone.

A ‘Good’ Tester in an Evolving Web World

Monday December 20th 2010 9am Rated 4 0 Comments Testing Web ST&QA Magazine Software User Mobile
Software testing professionals have long played an important role in their organizations by ensuring a high level of performance (speed and availability) and overall quality for websites and web-based applications. As the Internet continues to evolve at a rapid pace, the technical aspects of the tester’s job grow much more complicated.
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Twist #33 - with Jon Kohl

Friday February 18th 2011 11am Rated 3 0 Comments Software Interviews Editorial Testing Load Mobile podcast
Matt Heusser brings Jon Kohl back in to talk about Mobile Application Testing, performance testing, and how the world has changed since TWiST #7.
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TWiST #94 - SoLoMo, Part II (w/ Matt Johnston)

Friday May 4th 2012 6am Rated 2 0 Comments ST&QA Magazine Mobile Services Test and QA
It's back to STP-Con in NEw Orleans for the conclusion of Matt's talk about how Social, Local and Mobile have changed the landscape, and how we as testers have a golden opportunity
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What Drives Mobile User Experience

Friday March 29th 7am Rated 1 0 Comments Testing Mobile User
These days a product can no longer stand by itself. Getting a product out the door that works is not enough. Rather, the entire experience needs to be integrated and mapped out as multiple devices create a combined product experience not only in the moment of usage, but over time. Applications must be crafted toward a particular device but keeping in mind consistency across all other compatible and complementary devices for a total integrated and consistent experience.

10 Tips for Deploying a Mobile Testing Strategy

Monday June 4th 2012 7am Rated 1 0 Comments Mobile
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