Topic: mobile

Eliminating environment concerns in mobile application testing

Test environments can be a frustrating bottleneck to the testing process and the software development life cycle as a whole. Whether it be unavailable services, devices, or ever-elusive test data, ensuring the right environment for testing creates potential for barriers to shifting left at speed, and cutting corners can put application quality and your business … continue reading

Automated testing for mobile is a huge struggle

Organizations realize the importance of test automation but many struggle to make a move to automation on mobile.  The inception of mobile testing wasn’t as user-friendly for developers when compared to web testing, for example, and the difficulties still last today, according to Kobiton’s DevOps evangelist Shannon Lee, in the SD Times Live! webinar, “Creating … continue reading

Android announces Developer Preview 2

Android announced its Developer Preview 2 yesterday which  focuses on additional features and changes on top of last month’s original preview.  The new preview comes after the 12L feature drop was moved to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) last week, enabling developers to take advantage of over 250+ million large-screen Android devices.  Android 13 … continue reading

Tricentis announces product updates, including Tosca 15

Tricentis announced a number of updates, including Tosca 15, with which customers can manage their installation more easily and securely in the cloud with the Tosca server gateway.  The new update service in Tosca 15 enables customers to more easily keep up with features by downloading individual engines or components of Tosca.  “To help you … continue reading

Security and usability are not mutually exclusive in mobile applications

Organizations that build or maintain mobile applications have a greater responsibility than ever to secure their applications as the number of application downloads continues to grow.  3.8 billion smartphone users accounted for 218 billion app downloads in 2020 alone. Zimperium conducted a survey last year in which 250 enterprises described the security issues they  struggled … continue reading

ShiftLeft CORE gets new vulnerability identification features

Security company ShiftLeft today announced the new release of its ShiftLeft CORE platform with the Velocity Update that has new features for identifying and addressing potential vulnerabilities earlier in the software development life cycle.  New features and capabilities include the ability to perform code analysis for Kotlin apps for mobile development, which is an early-stage … continue reading

Improve your mobile QA practices to improve your user experience

Over half of website traffic comes from mobile devices, so ensuring that web applications are high quality and free of visual bugs is crucial in order to deliver the best user experience.  But QA teams face a big challenge when it comes to testing mobile devices: the number of different devices out there. Not only … continue reading

What to consider when getting started with mobile app testing

As organizations have shifted to a mobile-first approach, they’ve found that testing for the sheer number of devices and operating systems out there has become a real challenge.  The most important thing in getting started with mobile app testing is ensuring quality by defining a profile of the end users to select the required mobile … continue reading

SD Times news digest: Julia Computing Series A, Windows Terminal preview 1.10 released, Kdan Mobile raises $16 million in Series B funding

Julia Computing raised $24 million in a Series A fundraising round and stated it will use the funding to further develop and advance its secure, high-performance JuliaHub cloud platform. JuliaHub makes it easy to develop, deploy and scale Julia programs and is a platform for other applications such as JuliaSim for multi-physics simulation, JuliaSPICE for … continue reading

Mobile security lessons learned from mobile game cheats

Mobile games are often broken into so users can access premium content, paid features and obtain in-game currency. This is done by tampering with memory, bypassing payments and touchID screens, and downloading paid apps for free — and can be done on both jailbroken or non-jailbroken devices.  In a recent webinar on SD Times, Jan … continue reading

A guide to automated testing providers

Appvance is the inventor of AI-driven autonomous testing, which is revolutionizing the $120B software QA industry. The company’s patented platform, Appvance IQ, can generate its own tests, surfacing critical bugs in minutes with limited human involvement in web and mobile applications. AIQ empowers enterprises to improve the quality, performance and security of their most critical … continue reading

How does your company help customers with their automated testing initiatives?

Kevin Surace, co-founder and CTO of Appvance Appvance makes a platform called Appvance IQ, or AIQ for short. The platform is all-encompassing – web, API and native mobile, functional, compatibility, performance, load, security tests. It becomes a centerpiece of your quality initiative. We break test creation into two buckets. Low code/no code ML-driven Test Designer … continue reading

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