The Second Happiest Job in the World
After analyzing hundreds of thousands of employee-generated reviews, CareerBliss found that QA analyst was ranked #2 on their list of happiest jobs. While this may come as a surprise to many testers and QA professionals, CareerBliss Data Scientists (who did not have the happiest job) took into account many factors including compensation, work environment, growth […]
Read ArticleJanuary 7, 2019
Firing on All Cylinders With Continuous Delivery for Mobile
When everything is firing on all cylinders, DevOps can be awesome. By automating every application build – from development and QA to pre-release testing and eventually to production – DevOps lets you release new code as frequently as your business needs to instead of continuously delayed releases. This, in turn, enables you to resolve issues […]
Read ArticleNovember 22, 2017
Speed Up Mobile Testing Cycles with Test Sharding
It’s obvious that companies nowadays are investing more in automation solutions to streamline the workflow of build, test, deploy and monitor mobile apps. As developing high-quality apps requires lots of intensive testing, companies will most likely highlight Speed as one of the cornerstones when evaluating test automation tools and services.
Read ArticleOctober 20, 2017
Scaling Continuous Delivery for Mobile: Increase Throughput to Deliver At the Speed of Mobile
Transforming a company from Agile Development to Continuous Delivery by deploying a high degree of automation into its delivery pipeline, is called DevOps nowadays. DevOps is short for Development and Operations – the two departments that generally operate with two very different goals. Software Development teams are continuously writing new and better code to achieve […]
Read ArticleJuly 27, 2017
Stage 1 in Getting to Holiday Readiness – Functional and Compatibility testing
There are three important steps to ensure your mobile apps and mobile web presence are really ready for the crunch time of the Holiday Season. We also laid out the timeline for going through these stages to really maximize your revenue potential.
Read ArticleSeptember 1, 2015
The Efficiency and Costs: License Fees vs. the Total Cost of Ownership
The most successful mobile app developers build their apps in agile and test their stuff thoroughly before going public. To get this done efficiently and in a productive manner, this naturally means that development, testing and overall product creation process must be seamlessly integrated into one cohesive process. The need for a minimum viable product […]
Read ArticleDecember 31, 2014
The Comparison of Characteristics and Benefits: In-house vs. Cloud-based Environments
An increasing number of app developers are migrating from the in-house to cloud-based development environments in order to build their apps more cost efficiently, with the allure of lower maintenance and operational costs. While these are potential benefits for a variety of app developers, not all companies can rely on cloud-based environments due to regulatory, […]
Read ArticleDecember 23, 2014
The Costs of In-House vs. Cloud-Based Development Environments
Software engineering isn’t cheap. High-quality development costs money, but it will surely lay the groundwork for many years to come. Like building a house, laying a solid foundation and doing things the correct way will provide you a base to build upon and grow. Building the right development and testing infrastructure at the first time […]
Read ArticleDecember 17, 2014
The Investments for Mobile App Development and Testing
We’ve been asked to share our insight and knowledge how to measure (and improve) the efficiency, productivity and basically how to break down the different types of costs and benefits related to mobile app development and testing.
Read ArticleDecember 16, 2014
CEO Blog Series #4: Productivity of QA in mobile app development
Quality assurance (QA) is a critical part of the process when creating and maintaining successful mobile apps for hundreds of millions of app consumers. One of the metrics in this app creation process is naturally QA’s productivity – the success to efficiently find and filter out the problems in apps before they land on hands of users. This type of productivity […]
Read ArticleAugust 12, 2014