IoT Dev+Test 2016 - Mobile Testing
Sunday, April 17
Effective Mobile Automation using Appium® (2-Day)
Mobile Application Testing (2-Day)
Monday, April 18
Develop Your Mobile App Test and Quality Strategy
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. Leave this interactive session with a strategy for your very own...
Tuesday, April 19
Use Selenium to Test Mobile Web Apps in the Cloud
With the burgeoning number of mobile OSs, browsers, and platform combinations, comprehensive mobile app testing can be a nightmare—but it doesn’t have to be! Brian Hicks demonstrates ways to leverage the open source Selenium (IDE) with cloud services to test mobile apps across multiple browsers and platforms. Through hands-on exercises, you will experience how Selenium interacts with web browsers below the GUI to test actions, inputs, and expected outcomes. Brian and participants will examine how the Selenium framework works and learn how to expand Selenium tests to improve device and...
Testing Web Services and the APIs behind Mobile Apps
“There’s an app for that” is frequently heard today. The data (content) being presented by an app is delivered from a web service by an API (Application Programming Interface), the communication framework between applications and back-end systems. Marc van’t Veer explores functional and nonfunctional risks with APIs and explains step-by-step how to test them. Testing web services and APIs is more than just checking the features of applications. An API and the services it calls must meet requirements like response time, security, stability, performance, and scalability. In defining the test...
Security Testing Mobile Applications
The sensitive nature of personal information stored on smart devices makes security testing vital when building mobile applications. Cliff Berg 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 that make security testing mobile applications so challenging. Cliff offers hints and tips for comprehensive security testing of mobile applications during the development process, sharing when and where in that process...
Use Mobile/IoT Big Data Analytics to Improve Development and Testing
Mobile and IoT software apps generate tons of data and live in a world of social media crowdsourcing. Probably more importantly, back end systems are capturing terabytes of usage data on mobile and IoT applications—data that is ripe for big data analysis. Jon Hagar examines how development and test teams can put this data to work to improve mobile and IoT products and projects. To stay competitive, product teams must find ways to use analytics in a variety of fashions and from varied sources. This hand-on session explores where to find the data you need and examines way to mine and...
Test Attack Patterns for Mobile, IoT, and Embedded Software
Wednesday, April 20
Mobile and IoT Win! Now What?
Smartphones now outnumber tablets and PCs combined. Mobile developers and testers make more money than their old-school counterparts. Now that mobile has won the race, a new set of questions arises. How has mobile changed—and how does it continue to change—software technology and the economy? What does this mean to you personally? How does mobile affect technology choices, company strategies, and your career? Jason Arbon shares how to capitalize on the mobile win. Mobile forced a reinvention of how we design, build, and test software. How can these lessons from mobile be applied to web and...
Uber’s Fascinating World of Inter-App Communications
After joining Uber in early 2015, Apple Chow and Bian Jiang encountered an Uber-unique challenge while investigating UI testing tools for their mobile applications. Many of their sanity tests required the rider application and driver application to communicate and coordinate actions in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario. Learn how Apple, Bian, and their team created Octopus, a platform agnostic tool for scenario testing. They will discuss how it coordinates the communication across different apps running on different devices. You can apply this approach for any tests that...
How to Find Vulnerabilities and Bugs in Mobile Applications
Guerrilla QA: The Mobile of the Internet of All the Things!
There are more than 10 billion devices connected today, and it’s predicted that by decade's end 99 percent of everything manufactured will be connected. And it all flows through the mobile world in some way. As mobile increasingly touches our lives, development teams and testers struggle to keep up with fast-growing technologies. With deep insight into the mobile quality arena, Steven Winter and his team went from zero to more than 3,000 mobile banking apps that are 35 million users can now access—all made possible by innovative mobile test automation, continuous integration, and on-site...
How to Build and Integrate a Framework for Testing Mobile SDKs
Shift Left Mobile Application Testing
Thursday, April 21
Test Infrastructure for Native and Hybrid iOS and Android Applications
Integrate On-Device Test Automation into the Dev-Release Pipeline
With the vast number of platforms and device models, testing products on mobile can be a time-consuming and costly effort. Executing test automation on actual devices is one key to achieving scale and speed. How, when, and where do we build and execute these automation scripts on real devices? Danni Wu shares the approaches she uses at Bing to automate mobile device testing. At Bing, they run mobile automated test suites across different stages of product development cycles—pre-check-in, rolling integration build, pre-ship, and production. To validate different quality aspects of products...
Implement Combinatorial Test Patterns for Better Mobile and IoT Testing
A common problem in mobile and IoT systems is the large number and combinations of hardware, operational, and software configurations that need to be tested. For example, the so-called Android fragmentation problem might lead a test team to test hundreds of device and several software configurations, potentially yielding thousands or even tens of thousands of tests. Combinatorial testing, a technique involving mathematics and specific tooling, allows teams to reduce the number of test cases, while still assuring good error finding capabilities. Jon Hagar examines test combinatorial...
Innovations in Mobile Testing: Expanding Your Test Plan
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. Based on information from more than two years of research with a lab-based consultant team, Melissa focuses on areas that balance efficiency and productivity, including use of a Device Matrix technique to select devices to test against, and when to use...