Using Fledge for Testing BlackBerry Applications
Recently I was working on one of our products, scribe2go, which is being addressed at businesses and features a BlackBerry edition as well. My job was to organize the mobile application testing process, and identify the automation tools to be used. Which in the BlackBerry case was a simple and straightforward job – we decided to go mainstream with Fledge.
Below is a short summary of my experience with Fledge, which you might find useful if you plan to test BlackBerry applications.
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The Mobile App Mockup – Why and How
First things first. What is a mockup? A mockup is a model of the user interface of an application. It shows the UI layout and design, and serves as an excellent early-stage tool to communicate the app functionality with end-users, software vendors, and maybe even investors.
Why spend time creating a mockup? Well, there is an unwritten software law which says that the later in the development cycle you introduce major changes, the more expensive they are. Mockups try to leverage on that law to save you some time, effort, and money. How? By offering you the chance to literary see at very early stage how your mobile application looks and feels, to collect early feedback from target app users, and to rethink and improve you app before it gets too expensive.
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.
iPhone OS 4: Highlights
Last Thursday, on Apr 08, Steve Jobs and Scott Forstall presented the plans for the new iPhone operating system, iPhone OS 4. The event itself can be seen on the official site. What are the highlights? read full article »
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