How to Do Automation Testing of iPhone Applications
Why automation? It saves precious time spent in running manually one and the same tests over and over again with each new build of the application. And secondly, it improves the stability of the application and decreases regression bugs by making it easy to run tests after each non-trivial code change or even at the end of each development day.
How about automation testing of mobile applications? Well, this area has always been foggy.
Open vs Proprietary Mobile Software: Did Apple Learn the History Lesson?
Smartphones are the new personal computers. At least in terms of popularity and market growth, they are.
Now, remember what happened in the dawn of the personal computers (there is a really good documentary on the subject, Triumph of The Nerds, available in YouTube)? To make the long story short, Apple practically invented the personal computer, sold a lot of units, became the market leader, and then IBM and Microsoft came along. When Windows 95 was released, there was not much left of Apple’s market share.
Top 6 Mobile Industry News Sites
Here is my list of the best free online sources of news about the mobile industry:
20 Easy Tips to Help You Create a Killer App
If you are about to build a mobile application, here are a few ideas you might find useful:
- Discuss your app concept with several close friends who match the profile of a target customer. Listen carefully to what they say, especially to their critics and concerns.
- Spend some time to check at app stores about similar apps. And I don’t mean same concept or same technology, I mean apps that target the same customer need/problem.
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