Mobile apps bring a new set of challenges to testing—fast-paced development cycles with multiple releases per week, multiple app technologies and development platforms to support, dozens of devices and form factors, and additional pressure from enterprise and consumers who are less than patient with low quality apps. And with these new challenges comes a new set of mistakes testers can make! Fred Beringer works with dozens of mobile test teams to help them avoid common traps when building test automation for mobile apps. Fred shares some useful best practices, starting with mobile test automation. He explains what and where to automate, how to build testability into a mobile app, how to handle unreliable back-end calls and different device performance, and how to automate the automation. Fred shares real customer stories and shows how small changes in process can make mobile apps ten times more reliable.
Fred Beringer
SOASTA
Fred Beringer is VP of products at SOASTA where he is helping customers get started with mobile test automation. Previously, as software testing director for Experian, Fred built and led a worldwide organization responsible for testing all products within the Experian Decision Analytics portfolio. He introduced cloud-based testing at Experian while helping the development organization transition to agile. Throughout his career with IBM and Experian, Fred has driven strategic projects around data replication (for Big Data customers), business intelligence, performance testing, cloud computing, cloud testing, and open source. Follow him on Twitter @fredberinger, email him at [email protected], and learn more about Fred at fredberinger.com.
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