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Wednesday, April 10, 2013 - 2:00pm - 3:00pm
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How Spotify Tests World Class Apps

In today’s competitive world, more and more HTML5 applications are being developed for mobile and desktop platforms. Spotify has partnered with world-renowned organizations to create high quality apps to enrich the user experience. Testing a single application within a few months can be a challenge. But it's a totally different beast to test multiple world-class music discovery apps every week. Alexander Andelkovic shares insights into the challenges they face coordinating all aspects of app testing to meet their stringent testing requirements. Alexander describes an agile way to use the Kanban process to help out. He shares lessons learned including the need for management of acceptable levels of quality, support, smoke tests, and development guidelines. If you are thinking of starting agile app development or want to streamline your current app development process, Alexander’s experience gives you an excellent starting point.

In the software industry for more than fifteen years, Alexander Andelkovic currently works for the Platform Partners team at Spotify in Stockholm as a team lead, responsible for the approval process for Spotify Apps. An exploratory tester, Alexander is a driving force for implementing agile model-based testing techniques and an ambassador for session-based test management (SBTM). Previously Alexander worked as a test leader in the mobile Internet business unit at Microsoft and as an exploratory tester in the med-tech industry with focus on implementing SBTM.

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