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Welcome to another Novoda ‘2-minute Q&A’. This series gives you insights into some of the challenging scenario's and ideas that we deal with day to day in the world of Novoda's Engineering, Product and agile Software Crafting. Today we have JT our Head of Quality Assurance, having managed
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AR has been one of the up and coming technologies of the last few years, already known as the amazing tech behind Pokémon Go, Snapchat's animated emojis, and Instagram's 3D stickers. Let’s walk through the unique challenges it presents to QA and the testing process. In the fourth and
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Recently, I had the opportunity to collaborate on a project where we decided to change the way we work and apply Behaviour Driven Development practices into our mobile teams. Project team used that methodology not only in the way we were cooperating and communicating but also to drive our tests.
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Alright, you’re a mobile software test engineer and you want to get some test devices in house. But your boss has the purse strings pretty tight, as they do sometimes. That’s fine. It’s up to you to convince the powers that be that you need them. Let’
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You can easily detect if TalkBack is enabled when binding views. You can then change their behaviour to make interaction with elements more natural. This blogpost explains how to test this functionality. The biggest problem with testing custom behaviour with TalkBack is time. You turn it on, navigate to the
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In this post, we'll show you how and why you should use Espresso to test your custom Views on an Android device. Note: this blogpost refers to an old version of the espresso-support library. The latest version can be found at its GitHub repo. You can use Espresso to test
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Xcode comes with the XCUITest framework which allows you to easily develop UI tests that reflect users' interaction with the application. Find out how to kick off with the XCUITest framework to grow your automated UI test suite. Background In November 2016, I joined my first iOS project as a
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Mobile applications are complex software systems. Automated tests can help to ensure reliability, which leads to satisfied customers - an essential ingredient for any successful product. What if you could write tests that document requirements and features in a way that everyone involved in a project could understand? If tests
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There are several reasons to start using automation in your application development process: running your tests, distributing your app internally or into the App Store, or setting up well-defined processes in your team. Whatever the reason, if you are a mobile developer you might want to consider using Fastlane. iOS
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