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Let’s build a mobile app quality and testing strategy together. Whether you have a web, hybrid, or native app, building a test and quality strategy means first understanding your customers and your competitors, and then testing your app under real-world conditions. Most importantly, it means having the data and tools to make quick, agile decisions on feature implementations and bug fixes. Jason Arbon guides you through the latest techniques, data, and tools to ensure you have an awesome mobile app test and quality strategy.

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TD Security Testing Mobile Applications
Alan Crouch, Coveros
Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:30am

The sensitive nature of personal information stored on smart devices makes security testing vital when building mobile applications. Alan Crouch explores the unique characteristics of mobile devices—how they store data, the fluid trust boundaries between applications, and the unique aspects of device security models. Learn about the many different threat types and use cases in the mobile arena that make security testing mobile applications so challenging. Alan offers hints and tips for comprehensive security testing of mobile applications during the development process.

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TI Develop Your Mobile App Test and Quality Strategy
Jason Arbon, appdiff.com
Tue, 04/14/2015 - 8:30am

Let’s build a mobile app quality and testing strategy together. Whether you have a web, hybrid, or native app, building a test and quality strategy means first understanding your customers and your competitors, and then testing your app under real-world conditions. Most importantly, it means having the data and tools to make quick, agile decisions on feature implementations and bug fixes. Jason Arbon guides you through the latest techniques, data, and tools to ensure you have an awesome mobile app test and quality strategy.

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Concurrent Sessions

W2 Automate Your Way to Sanity in the Chaos of Mobile App Development
Josh Anderson, Dude Solutions
Wed, 04/15/2015 - 10:00am

Mobile app development and testing are hard. Mobile at scale is even harder. As you scale to the enterprise, automation is the only option. However, many organizations have barely started automating their mobile dev/test efforts. So, how do you actually automate the building, testing, and deploying of hundreds of mobile apps across multiple operating systems and different app stores? Josh Anderson explains that the mobile ecosystem is in its infancy compared to the tools supporting web application development, testing, and deployment.

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W8 Mobile Test Automation with Big Data Analytics
Tarun Bhatia, Microsoft
Wed, 04/15/2015 - 1:00pm

Development and test organizations face major challenges when building robust automated tests around their mobile applications. With limited testing resources and increasingly more complex projects, stakeholders worry about the risk and quality of mobile products. So how do you plan a mobile test automation project to prioritize testing resources and efforts? Tarun Bhatia used big data analytics to understand where customers spend most of their time on their apps out in the wild.

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W11 Mobile Testing Trends and Innovations
Melissa Tondi, Denver Automation and Quality Engineering
Wed, 04/15/2015 - 2:00pm

As organizations implement their mobile strategy, testing teams must support new technologies—while still maintaining existing systems. Melissa Tondi describes the major trends and innovations in mobile technology, usage patterns, tools, and test equipment that you should consider when transitioning existing test teams or starting new ones.

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T11 Mobile Performance Testing Crash Course
Dustin Whittle, AppDynamics
Thu, 04/16/2015 - 3:15pm

With more and more web traffic coming from mobile devices, performance on tablets and smartphones has a profound impact on user experience and, ultimately, your company’s bottom line. Dustin Whittle shares the latest performance testing tools and insights for web developers. Dustin explores performance considerations for backend APIs and helps you better understand mobile performance on devices. Learn how to evaluate performance and scalability on both the server- and the client-side with tools such as Siege, Bees with Machine Guns, Google PageSpeed, WBench, and more.

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Keynotes

K3 The Perfect Storm: Mobile Application Quality
Jeffery Payne, Coveros, Inc.
Thu, 04/16/2015 - 8:30am

Mobile applications are fraught with risk. The unique, portable nature and multiple uses of mobile devices bring a wide variety of critical quality properties into play: reliability, usability, security, availability, and maintainability. Allocating the effort to identify and ensure these properties is a difficult challenge—and not for the faint of heart. New testing and validation approaches must be used if we are to meet quality goals for mission-critical and widely distributed mobile applications.

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