Orasi has a rich tradition of integrating testing best practices into the development and delivery of quality mobile applications. Whether it be native mobile apps, mobile web apps, or mobile hybrid apps, Orasi has experience and technology to fully certify mobile applications before deploying to consumers and/or employees. As with all Orasi disciplines, our mobile… Continue reading Continuous Mobile Testing
Category: Mobile
Testing as a Service: a Modern Approach for a Critical Need
The increasing dominance of web and mobile applications is increasing complexity for organizations—and the software teams charged with ensuring application functionality and quality. The number of critical business functions processed via a browser or mobile device is escalating, the pace of updates is accelerating, and inaccurate results, aberrant behaviors, and security flaws can all be… Continue reading Testing as a Service: a Modern Approach for a Critical Need
Don’t Wait for Poor Feedback, Change Your Mobile Testing Strategy Now
When it comes to mobile, how does your organization determine what to test? What devices are in your lab? Are they the right ones? How do you tell what the right ones are? Are they a mix of devices your test team had on hand, or does your device pool consist of the top devices… Continue reading Don’t Wait for Poor Feedback, Change Your Mobile Testing Strategy Now
Optimizing the User Experience: How’s That Coming Along?
Google the search term, “user experience,” and the search engine produces 237 million results. User experience is everywhere, with articles proclaiming it is the “end all and be all” of software today. As it happens, those articles are right. Most software professionals know, even if they don’t address the fact, that user experience has become… Continue reading Optimizing the User Experience: How’s That Coming Along?
Mobile Applications: Challenges from Development to Production
Many companies are struggling to balance time-to-market demands for mobile applications while still providing the performance and functionality end users desire. The mobile application lifecycle adds more complexities and unknowns than traditional applications, which only adds to the challenge. In order to be successful, processes need to be streamlined and/or enhanced from development through production.… Continue reading Mobile Applications: Challenges from Development to Production
New Development Platforms Rewrite the Rules on Mobile Deployments
The world of mobile software development can be treacherous for developers and testers. On the one hand, users have high expectations for application functionality and speed. On the other, they hate change. Across this landscape, companies and their personnel walk a tightrope, trying to stay abreast of OS updates with minimal impact on the user—even… Continue reading New Development Platforms Rewrite the Rules on Mobile Deployments
Crowdtesting: Let Your Apps Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Despite its importance in the software development cycle, controlled lab testing can never identify all the issues that actual users might encounter. For mobile apps in particular, there are literally thousands of combinations of devices, operating systems and network conditions, making comprehensive testing of all scenarios impractical. Furthermore, because testers in the lab know what… Continue reading Crowdtesting: Let Your Apps Take a Walk on the Wild Side
Are You Using Best Practices for Your Performance Testing?
“Best practices” is a term that’s become a bit overused in the technology industry, with some expert (and not-so-expert) professionals using it as a mechanism to promote their preferred approaches. Nevertheless, the term still has considerable validity in the world of software testing. Here, a substantial body of evidence effectively proves that implementing key, documented… Continue reading Are You Using Best Practices for Your Performance Testing?
Mobile Testing in a Hybrid Cloud: a Practical Solution to Physical Testing Needs
With cloud adoption hitting historic highs, many organizations are reaping the benefits of mobile software testing in the cloud. Here at Orasi, we support the use of cloud-based testing and believe it should play an important role in any mobile testing strategy. Nevertheless, we find that for a variety of organizations, fully cloud-based testing is… Continue reading Mobile Testing in a Hybrid Cloud: a Practical Solution to Physical Testing Needs
Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing
The burgeoning science of DevOps comes to the forefront at a critical moment in IT’s history. The mobility wave has stretched the technical difficulty of both ends of the application development process – defining requirements at one end – and testing the robustness of the finished app at the other. In prior app delivery cycles,… Continue reading Increasing the Velocity of DevOps with Automated Mobile App Testing