The usage of mobile apps has exploded, and given the global nature of most user bases of any mobile app, there is increasingly little-to-no downtime. At any given point, your mobile app is being used by hundreds or thousands or more users who expect rich, robust functionality. Companies literally cannot afford to deliver a subpar mobile app experience.  That’s where 24/7 synthetic monitoring for mobile applications comes in. With AlertSite’s newest integration to BitBar’s real device cloud for mobile app testing – part of SmartBear’s suite of award ..read more

Digital transformation has been embraced by most organizations.  More than ever, people turn to mobile devices to stay connected with the world and each other, and that includes engaging with businesses.  With this expansion of users on all devices and platform, businesses are striving for digital excellence while they manage transformation and product roll out.  According to Hackermoon, internet usage has increased by as much as 70% as organizations adopt a more distributed workforce model with working from remote ..read more

Automation …sounds like it would be easy to do and get started.  As live or manual testers realize that automation can help them, the reality is that automation is not as easy as it could be.  This blog will help you justify the value of investing your time and energy automating your manual tests and a small recommended action plan to get started.  Value for you and your organization  So you are an awesome manual tester...why would you automate?  Doesn’t this put your job at risk and devalue your exp ..read more

Have you ever wondered what happens to your app if the user’s device shuts down unexpectedly? What happens when a user receives a call or a push notification while using your app? The only way to find answers to these questions is to run interrupt tests for your mobile apps. Let’s learn more about this type of test and see how you can use it to provide your users with a consistent and enjoyable experience. What Is Interrupt Testing? Imagine you are using an app on your smartphone when you receive a call from a friend (which interrupts the app). After the phone call, you return to the app, whic ..read more

Test-driven development – TDD for short – is one of those terms that developers and leaders of development teams are often confronted with during their daily lives. We recently published a blog post about a relative of TDD, BDD (Behavior-Driven-Development), and talked about its use cases and benefits. We want to continue this journey and will now examine TDD in more detail: What is it, how does TDD for mobile app testing and development work, and which test frameworks are best suited for utilizing TDD for iOS and Android? What Is Test-Driven Development? In older, more traditional development ..read more

I hope the previous blog post of the Xamarin.UITest 101 series provides some insight into how to write and run UI tests on Android and iOS platforms. Generally, writing automated tests is pretty easy, but writing solid tests will be much harder as the size and complexity of the project grow incrementally. Thus, in this blog post we’ll look at some advanced approaches to writing more scalable and maintainable Xamarin.UITest tests. Creating a Base Class for Xamarin.UITest Tests As far as the number of Xamarin.UITest tests grow, it gets more and more challenging to scale the project, as well as s ..read more

In the first blog of our Xamarin.UITest 101 series, we have covered how to set up the Xamarin development environment with Visual Studio on Windows 10, today we will set up a development environment for Apple’s macOS and go through running Xamarin.UITest tests on Android and iOS platforms. Setting Up Xamarin Environment on macOS Let’s first set up the macOS environment by installing Visual Studio for Mac. We can go to https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/mac/ and download Visual Studio for Mac. After downloading and installing the Visual Studio for Mac development environment, we will be pro ..read more

Test automation remains the hottest quality assurance trend of 2020. It is the answer to realizing CI/CD and agile QA processes, but many teams have been struggling to achieve that due to many problems when implementing and working with test automation. Even highly professional QA engineers sometimes fail to effectively solve these problems early on. Today, let’s take a look at the common test automation problems, find out what causes them and discover the solutions. Test Automation Problems Modern QA Teams Face So what are the top problems that even modern QA teams have been sweating to solve ..read more

In the first article, we have installed and set up Visual Studio Enterprise 2019 for automated test development using Xamarin.UITest. We have created a simple cross-platform app using Xamarin.Forms and a simple automated UI test scenario that could interact with the elements in this app. However, to write more complicated Xamarin.UITest test scenarios, we need to find and use its locators. This is the second blog of our Xamarin.UITest 101 series. In this blog, we will go through a couple of different types of Xamarin.UITest locators and use them to get access to the layout of the elements so t ..read more

It’s hard to imagine effective mobile app testing without automation. Automated tests are an absolute must-have if you really want to benefit from frequent deployments and faster time to market. But before enjoying the benefits of automated mobile testing, you need to onboard some best mobile testing tools or frameworks to help you create tests. Luckily, there are plenty of great mobile testing tools for test creation, and we’d like to share some of the best with you. So, if you want to ensure fast and efficient test script generation, continue reading. What to Look for in Mobile Testing Tools ..read more