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 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 emulators and simulators rather than physical devices. She offers solutions to ensure you have a comprehensive mobile test strategy and focuses on challenges—including understanding mobile-specific integration testing and which automation tools to use—that have inundated traditional test teams. Melissa describes how to build a well-organized device lab and incorporate testing scenarios—such as gesture and interruption testing—that are unique to mobile.
Melissa Tondi
Denver Automation and Quality Engineering
Melissa Tondi has spent most of her career working within testing teams, concentrating on functional, performance, security, and mobile testing techniques. Now Melissa is back to being a practitioner, assisting agile teams to continuously improve the design, build, test, and delivery of quality software. In the software test and quality engineering field for more than fifteen years, she focused on organizing testing teams around three major tenets—efficiency, innovation, and culture. Melissa’s previous roles have included director of software quality engineering in the world's leading education company; QA consultant for health care, finance, and software-as-a-service industries; and president of the Software Quality Association of Denver.
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