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AppQuantum Apr 17 2023 at 15:58

Automation in mobile QA testing

Medium

7 min

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Mobile applications testing * Game testing *

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It takes a lot of time and effort to develop a game. Finding and fixing errors before the release is one of the most crucial stages of the whole process, and the bigger your project is, the more people are usually involved in testing. Even the most uncomplicated games require a proper and thorough examination by QAs. The processes are automated to provide high-level project maintenance by increasing testing speed and reducing the influence of the human factor.

Automated testing is done with the help of specific programs, like Selenoid and Appium (although such frameworks are rarely used in games).

However, the chances of successful automation depend primarily on the genre. Plus, it doesn’t cover all stages. For example, while the analytical issues can be automated, the visual aspect and gameplay are still tested manually (or are they really? We’ll get back to this later). We differentiate the two most popular types of auto testing:

toolateitsme Nov 8 2022 at 10:33

How to Customize UI Artefacts for Selenide + Selenoid + Allure (with TestOPS)

20 min

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Иннотех corporate blogIT systems testing * Web services testing * Mobile applications testing *

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The common combination of JUnit5, Selenide and Allure has proven to be stable and reliable for autotesting. The remaining issue, however, lies in test length increase up until the rise of overall test numbers. The resulting video files turn out to be over an hour. Alexander Kochergin, Lead engineer at Innotech, has found a way to simplify the process.

Quality_department Jul 27 2022 at 14:01

Testing Metrics You Must Add to Your Process

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Иннотех corporate blogMobile applications testing * Web services testing * IT systems testing * Game testing *

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Testing is one of the key processes in development. However, without analysis it is tough to say how effective testers really are. Innotech’s lead tester-engineer Pavel Petrov shared a number of metrics that are being used in project work.

victoriaqb Aug 7 2020 at 08:04

Sberbank Online iOS testing

6 min

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Сбер corporate blogDevelopment for iOS * Mobile applications testing *

Tutorial

Theory of testing is usually differs from practice. Today we want to talk about our practical experience in testing application's code which is used by millions of iOS users and about the difficult path that our team finished in order to achieve stable code.

Let’s imagine: the developers successfully convinced themselves and the business of the need to cover the code with tests. Over time, in the project were created more than a dozen thousand unit- and more than a thousand UI-tests. Such a large test base araised several problems, and we successfully found the solution for them.

itmo Jun 23 2020 at 19:16

Meet Hamstand: a smart mobile testing hub

5 min

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ITMO corporate blogOffices of IT companiesDevelopment of mobile applications * IT systems testing * Mobile applications testing *

The ITMO Accelerator continues to empower entrepreneurs. We’ve already covered some of its most successful graduates — the Laeneco staethoscope and the GoROBO robotics club. Today we’ll be discussing Hamstand — a modular hub that simplifies the process of mobile app testing. Let’s talk about how it came to be, why it’s a welcome addition to many developers’ toolkits, and what awaits the project in the near future.

regno Apr 23 2020 at 09:00

Custom instruments: When signpost is not enough

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Сбер corporate blogSwift * Development of mobile applications * Development for iOS * Mobile applications testing *

Tutorial

In our previous article, we discussed the reasons of unit-tests’ instability and how to make them stable. Now let’s look through a new tools for debugging and profiling which were introduced by Apple in iOS 12 — the framework os_log and instrument for performance analysis os_signpost.

In one of the sprints, we were tasked with implementing the generation of a pdf-document on the client-side. We completed the task. But we wanted to make sure the effectiveness of the technical nuances of the decision. Signpost helped us with this. Using it we increased he document’s displaying speed several times.

To learn more about os_signpost application technology, see where it can help you and how it has already helped us, go further forward.

victoriaqb Mar 26 2020 at 11:10

Signpost: When Breakpoints are not Enough

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Сбер corporate blogSwift * Xcode * Development for iOS * Mobile applications testing *

Tutorial

Instruments for Apple's Xcode is a tool for performance analysis of an iOS application. In 2018 Apple introduced Custom Instruments — an opportunity to expand the standard set of instruments for application profiling. When existing tools are not enough, you can create new ones yourself — it will collect, analyze and display the data the way you need.

Okhomiak Feb 26 2020 at 22:11

Are my open-source libraries vulnerable? (2 min reading to make your life more secure)

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Mobile applications testing * Web services testing * IT systems testing * Information Security * DevOps *

The explosion of open source and issues related to it

The amount of open source or other third party code used in a software project is estimated as 60-90% of a codebase. Components, such as libraries, frameworks, and other software modules, almost always run with full privileges. If a vulnerable component is exploited, such an attack can facilitate serious data loss or server takeover. Applications using components with known vulnerabilities may undermine application defences and enable a range of possible attacks and impacts.

Conclusion: even if you perform constant security code reviews, you still might be vulnerable because of third-party components.

Some have tried to do this manually, but the sheer amount of work and data is growing and is time consuming, difficult, and error prone to manage. It would require several full time employees and skilled security analysts to constantly monitor all sources to stay on top.

Direvius Feb 10 2020 at 09:38

Hypercube. How we gave developers test devices without losing any

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Яндекс corporate blogDIYComputer hardwareDevelopment of mobile applications * Mobile applications testing *

You can’t properly test and debug mobile apps without test devices, which there should be plenty of considering how the same code may behave differently on different models. So how do we keep track of these devices? How do we quickly provide developers and testers with the smartphones they need, configured the way they need, and without much red tape?

I’m Alexey Lavrenuke. Over the years, I’ve worn many hats: one of the authors behind Yandex.Tank, a speaker on load testing, and the guy who calculated energy consumption by mobile phones. Now I’m a Yandex.Rover developer on the self-driving car team.

After the phones and before Yandex.Rover, there was Hypercube.

A few years ago, the head of mobile development popped in to the load testing department and mentioned a problem they were having with test devices: phones had a tendency to inexplicably migrate from one desk to another. Picking the right device and then finding it had become a challenge. We already experienced working with mobile devices from building a digital ammeter to calculate energy consumption, so we decided to help our coworkers out and quickly rig up a handy contraption. We figured the whole thing wouldn’t take more than three months. Oh how wrong we were. Let me tell you what we were really in for.

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