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The ultimate guide to AR Design, ARKit, CoreML and more!

augmented reality

The ultimate guide to AR Design, ARKit, CoreML and more!

Over the course of a few months, various people at Novoda have experimented with technologies such as Augmented Reality, Machine Learning, Image Recognition and more. We've written a lot about these topics and wanted to gather all our blog posts in one place for your ease!

QA Testing Myths

QA Testing Myths

While we are interested in what QA is, we thought it would be fun to list what we think it is not.

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 3)

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 3)

This series will cover a couple of obstacles or complications you might run into when writing UI tests for iOS and will give advice on how to write cleaner tests. The third and last part will show how you can use page objects to structure your tests in a sustainable way.

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 2)

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 2)

This series will cover a couple of obstacles or complications you might run into when writing UI tests for iOS and will give advice on how to write cleaner tests. The second part will explain how to correctly access views in tests.

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 1)

Tricks & treats to make UI testing less terrifying (part 1)

This series will cover a couple of obstacles or complications you might run into when writing UI tests for iOS and will give advice on how to write cleaner tests. In the first part we will look into possible issues with testing custom views.

Android Testing - Google I/O 2018 - What's new? - Part 1

Android Testing - Google I/O 2018 - What's new? - Part 1

Among almost 200 talks from the Google I/O 2018 that are an amazing source of knowledge I have selected ones that are related to testing. Put some time aside

TestBash Brighton 2018

TestBash Brighton 2018

On the 16th of March part of the Novoda QA team - Bart, Jonathan and Sven - went to the TestBash conference in Brighton. It was our first time attending

Q&A - Automation Testing Framework, Native or Cross-Platform?

Q&A - Automation Testing Framework, Native or Cross-Platform?

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

What IS real? Augmented Reality Testing with ARKit

augmented reality

What IS real? Augmented Reality Testing with ARKit

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

Cucumberish - BDD testing framework for iOS applications + sample application.

Cucumberish - BDD testing framework for iOS applications + sample application.

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

Why can’t you just test on a simulator instead of getting real devices?

Why can’t you just test on a simulator instead of getting real devices?

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

Testing Talkback in isolation with Espresso

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

Testing Views in Isolation with Espresso

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.

Getting started with XCUITest framework for testing iOS apps.

Getting started with XCUITest framework for testing iOS apps.

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

Here’s how testing can provide you with the best documentation

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

Become a master of automation with Fastlane

Become a master of automation with Fastlane

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

Testing your first Android Things driver

Testing your first Android Things driver

Controlling any peripheral device from an Android Things board requires a driver. If no driver is available it's down to you to write your own. Once that's written, how do

Testing persistence in the Android ecosystem

Testing persistence in the Android ecosystem

Growing Object-Oriented Software: Guided by Tests is the best book I’ve ever read about testing. Because it’s not about testing. Yes, the book talks a lot about clean

Writing your first Android Things driver

Writing your first Android Things driver

Android Things is a lightweight version of the Android operating system that can be installed on IoT-focused devices. Android Things includes 'user drivers' functionality, enabling developers to easily control a

Testing Android Things - IoT meets Java

Testing Android Things - IoT meets Java

Google has just announced the amazing Android Things. This gives the Internet of Things (IoT) a real jump start with the availability of the Android ecosystem and all the open

CleanCoders - Mobile App Case Study Review

CleanCoders - Mobile App Case Study Review

Learning is hard and comes in many forms. I have recently finished watching "Mobile Development with Swift" an online ~10 hour video series by Robert C Martin of

Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object

Refactoring: Introduce Parameter Object

˝Refactoring is a controlled technique for improving the design of an existing code base” — Martin Fowler. Discipline and methodology are critical when refactoring. We should refactor applying a series of

Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android (Pt. 3)

Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android (Pt. 3)

In the previous post, we wrote the acceptance test as a first step and started creating the most external classes of our implementation. In this post, we will finish implementing

Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android (Pt. 2)

Approaching Outside-in TDD on Android (Pt. 2)

In the previous post, we introduced the Bank kata. We explained how we are going to implement it in Android, reviewed the different kinds of tests that we use in